Personnel problems in front of the Bundesliga
Goretzka also fails: FC Bayern lack eight players
April 18, 2025 – 9:54 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
FC Bayern is no longer there in the Champions League, but the Bundesliga is still about the championship. A real challenge is waiting at the weekend.
For the Munich team, it is the next failure in an already tense personnel situation. The national player is the eighth player who is missing coach Vincent Kompany. In addition to Goretzka, Manuel Neuer (muscle fiber tear), Jamal Musiala (muscle bundle tear), Alphonso Davies (cruciate ligament tear), Dayot Upamecano (knee injury), Tarek Buchmann (shoulder breach) and Sven Ulreich (personal reasons). In addition, the use of central defenders Min-Jae Kim is uncertain in the face of persistent pain in the Achilles tendon.
Goretzka had recently played back into the first team after a difficult start to the season. In the national team, too, the 30-year-old recently convinced with strong performances. In the Bundesliga, FC Bayern is six points ahead of pursuers Bayer Leverkusen five match days before the end of the season. After the end of the Champions League and in the DFB Cup, the championship is now all the more important.
This is how you could play: Urbig – Guerreiro, Stanišić, Dier (Kim), Laimer – Pavlović (Palhinha), Kimmich – Sané, Müller, Olise – Kane