In the second training session
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A few days after the fixed change from VfL Bochum, Lukas Daschner (26) was slowed down at FC St. Gallen. The previous loan player of the Espen suffered a serious knee injury in the second training session for the season preparation. According to club information, the former St. Paulian jumped out the kneecap in the left knee in a duel. An injury that he had suffered during his time in Hamburg – on the same leg. At that time, the offensive midfielder was missing almost half a year. Daschner is now operated on in Switzerland. Again, a forced break is imminent.
St. Gallen had borrowed from Bochum in the second half of the season in the second half of the season. In 16 games, the native of Duisburg scored three goals. For 650,000 euros, he was released from VfL, where the former top scorer St. Paulis had had difficulty prevailing in the Bundesliga since his change in 2023/24.
“In the past few months, he has already impressed his value for our team,” said St. Gallen’s sports director Roger Stilz on Monday after the obligation. Daschner, who is one of four ex-St. Paulians near St. Gallen, in addition to the team colleagues Carlo Boukhalfa and Betim Fazliji as well as Stilz as a former young manager, “on the one hand, a team-related player, on the other hand, is technically over average, running strongly and game-intelligent.