After the Corona scare at the start of the year, Julian Nagelsmann had to announce the next bad news with Alphonso Davies’ heart muscle inflammation.
“Modest to Shitty to Highly Shitty”
After the end of domestic isolation, the 21-year-old Bayern star was examined – and then sent to a forced break of several weeks after returning to training. “Of course there is a probability these days that it comes from a corona infection plus sporting activity. But we don’t know 100 percent.”said Nagelsmann. “But it also has no relevance to the further course of action for him. The fact is: he has it – it’s modest to crappy, to extremely crappy.”
Corona won’t let go of FC Bayern Munich either. After the bad start to the football year in the 1-2 draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach, when Nagelsmann was missing a total of 13 professionals, including nine players around captain Manuel Neuer who had recently tested positive, the next longer absence follows. Last year, the unvaccinated Joshua Kimmich, like Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, had to pause for weeks due to quarantine, infection and lung problems, now it is the young Canadian Davies.
Corona continues to hover over the Nagelsmann team
In addition to Neuer and Corentin Tolisso, who were probably in the starting XI, Dayot Upamecano, Omar Richards, Leroy Sané and Tanguy Nianzou are also back in the squad as options to change on Saturday (3:30 p.m.) against 1. FC Köln be real consolation. Although Nagelsmann emphasized that these are signs of mild heart muscle inflammation and it “not so dramatic” may be. Still, it hits the left-back, who is absent for an “indefinite period”, and the club hard.
“I actually thought that we could bury the Corona issue at some point before Christmas and that it wasn’t always about Corona. Now it’s a lot about Corona again.”, said Nagelsmann before the away game. “Phonzie is out of training for the time being and will not be available for the next few weeks either. It needs to heal completely now.”
Nagelsmann will again field a formation on the Rhine in which not every player will appear in his desired or ideal position. Marcel Sabitzer could get a new chance on the left back in the Davies position, Kimmich should appear as a right-back. “We still have a squad that can and should win a Bundesliga game, sometimes in foreign positions.”, said the 34-year-old coach.
dpa
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Status: 01/14/2022, 14:51