At Bayern, the staff emergency broke out against Inter Milan before the quarter-final first leg in the Champions League. Coach Vincent Kompany does not want to accept the list of injuries as an excuse.
For FC Bayern, the crucial weeks are now going. In the Bundesliga it is important to bring the master shell back to Munich, to reach the final Dahoam in the Champions League. Inter Milan first blocks the way into the final in your own living room. The Italian representative triggers respect in Munich, especially since his own situation was better. FC Bayern is missing, coach Kompany wants to defy the injured problem.
Many injuries: Company does not want to “change the goals”
On Friday, Jamal Musiala also joined the Bayern hospital with a muscle bundle tear. The dribble artist will probably only be fit again at the World Cup – if at all. Musiala will be missing in the games against the Nerazzurri. Just like Manuel Neuer (calf injury), Dayot upamecano (cartilage damage), Alphonso Davies (cruciate ligament tear)Kingsley Coman (irritation in the foot) and Hiroki ito, who recently broke the midfoot for the second time.
But coach Vincent Kompany does not want to accept the thin staff ceiling as an excuse. He had emphasized that after the 3-1 win against Augsburg on Friday. He became even clearer in front of the royal class duel against the Northern Italians. He is “not in the mood for whine”, clarifies the 38-year-old Belgian. “I don’t want to change the goals, just because we have a few injuries.”
Laimer: “As a team, have to move even more closely together”
Konrad Laimer also blew into a similar horn, who, as in Augsburg, should also be used against Inter rear right in the chain of four. “We know that we have a lot of injuries. But we don’t look for excuses. We have to move closer together as a team.” The personnel emergency can only be “absorbed together. No one can do this one to one, with the failures we have”.
The Munich fails particularly hard on the defensive. The possibilities there are now very limited and that against Milan, of which Laimer and his teammates know “that they defend them very well that they can play very well”. But the Austrian, who will also meet his national team colleague Marko Arnautovic in the duel on Tuesday, also points out: “It is not just the chain of four. They are eleven players including goalkeeper who try to prevent goals.” And the FCB Geradeso brings them together.
Müller or Gnabry: Who replaces Jamal Musiala?
The question would remain how Company would like to compensate for the latest failure of Jamal Musiala. He replied to the corresponding question of a reporter at the press conference: “We have already played without a Jamal” and added: “You can look back and then you will find all the creative solutions that we have.”
Specifically, there are actually only two options: Thomas Müller, who has already been substituted for Musiala in Augsburg, or Serge Gnabry. The 29-year-old is currently clear second choice under Kompany, often only gets short assignments. In the round of 16 second legs in the Champions League against Bayer Leverkusen, he convinced after a substitution. Otherwise there are few season highlights from Gnabry.
Perhaps the duel against Inter Milan will also be the next star of Serge Gnabry – so that the dream of the final can continue to live.
Source: BR24Sport 07.04.2025 – 6:30 p.m.
