surgery next week
The club record player tore the medial meniscus in his left knee in his 458th competitive game for FCE and will be operated on next week. Recovery is expected to take at least three months. The keeper received the bitter diagnosis at the beginning of the week from knee specialist and HFC team doctor Dr. Thomas Bartels in Halle.
The injury happened to Sebastian Kerk’s goal to make it 1:3 from Auersicht when Männel unsuccessfully stretched his right leg up and overstretched the joint with considerable weight on his left knee. Then he gritted his teeth until the final whistle. He told the Bild newspaper: “After the operation I will have to use crutches for four to six weeks, after which rehabilitation and rehabilitation training should start. I hope that I can get back into team training during the pre-season.”
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Hopeless situation in the basement
At the beginning of March, shortly before his 34th birthday, the Männel, who has been active in Aue since 2008, announced that he would extend his working papers to 2023 and with the option of another season: “I’m staying on board. Of course, the contract also applies to the 3rd division , I’m looking forward to the 15th season with you,” emphasized the club icon in an Instagram statement at the time. A good five weeks later, relegation seems inevitable after six years in a row in the 2nd Bundesliga. Aue is the worst team in the second half of the season with only five points from twelve games so far.
Five games before the end, all hope of making up nine points behind the relegation rank held by arch-rival Dynamo Dresden has also been lost. In the remaining games Phillipp Klewin, the man after a corona infection in March, is already against in the only win in 2022 regensburg as well as against Karlsruhe had represented, and Tim Kipps ready as a potential alternative in goal.
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