Bundesliga duel against Augsburg
Surprise: Kompany puts midfield star on the bench
Updated on April 4th, 2025 – 7:36 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
In addition to the personnel worries and the Thomas Müller debate, Bavaria has a hard league exam. In Augsburg, several professionals are missing from Munich.
At the start in two groundbreaking weeks in the Bundesliga title fight at the neighbor FC Augsburg, FC Bayern has to be presented. In the top game on Friday evening (from 8.30 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online), the league leaders will meet the third best team in the second half of the season.
Trainer Vincent Kompany is missing Aleksandar Pavlović (Pfeiffersche’s glandular fever), Dayot Upamecano (cartilage damage), Alphonso Davies (cruciate ligament tear), Kingsley Coman (training deficit) and Hiroki ITō (midfoot break). Raphaël Guerreiro and Leon Goretzka could not train completely with the team this week. “Usually the players are all available for Friday,” announced Kompany.
This is how Bavaria starts against Augsburg:
In contrast to the duel against the St. Pauli at the end of March, the Munich coach changes in two positions: João Palhinha, Josip Stanišić, replaces Guerreiro for Goretzka.
With a success at the start of the 28th matchday, Bayern would initially expand the lead over pursuer Bayer Leverkusen to nine points. However, trainer Kompany knows about the difficulty of the task: “Traditionally, it is not an easy game for FC Bayern in Augsburg.” The FCA is the only Bundesliga team without defeat in the second half of the season. “We come with a lot of confidence,” said coach Jess Thorup.