Before Bavaria’s duel against Bochum
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After the injury-related failure of Captain Manuel Neuer, coach Vincent Kompany gives goalkeeper Youngster Jonas Urbig at Bayern’s unrestricted trust. The U21 national goalkeeper, who had lost his status as number one there in winter, will be in goal against VfL Bochum on Saturday (3:30 p.m.) and will make his debut in the Bundesliga on Saturday (3:30 p.m.).
Urbig will also be used next Tuesday in the round of 16 of the Champions League at the German champion Bayer Leverkusen. “When we get a player, we also have to give him confidence,” Kompany said at a press conference on Friday: “Jonas will definitely play tomorrow.”
He wanted to put “no pressure” on the 21-year-old, who represented the new new one in the last half hour at his Bayern debut at 3-0 against Leverkusen in the Allianz Arena in his Bayern debut. Urbig solved this task unexpectedly despite the lack of game practice.
“It was good for him to get in the Champions League. In the next games we have the confidence that he will do it as in training. And if not, no stress either, ”said Kompany. Routinier Sven Ulreich will be a replacement goalkeeper against Bochum. Neuer expects Kompany back in the goal after the upcoming international break.
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Also in the game against the table-16. Bochum demands Kompany to win a full focus from his team. “These games are dangerous if you go in and think that it will work,” warned the Belgian. Nevertheless, he will probably change his eleven a little bigger. A rotation is “a necessity” to keep the physical freshness.
The more frequent Aleksandar Pavlovic will be missing again. The 20-year-old continues to fail because of an illness. On request, Kompany did not want to say exactly what the midfielder has.
Update 4:35 p.m.: On Friday afternoon, FC Bayern finally announced in a narrow message that Pavlovic is currently being laboratories at a persistent infection and is not available “until further notice”.
The failure is also not good news for national coach Julian Nagelsmann, who nominates the national team squad for the Nation’s League quarter-finals against Italy on March 20 and 23 in March 20.