In the round of 16 of the Champions League, Bayer Leverkusen has to do without superstar Florian Wirtz – this makes the difficult task against FC Bayern, who won the first comparison with 3-0, even more complicated. The Munich trainer Vincent Kompany also knows about the importance of the German international for the Werkelf.
“He remains a difference,” emphasized the Belgian before the showdown on Tuesday (9:00 p.m./Prime Video and in the live ticker sport.de) in the Rhineland: “And you can’t replace such players 1 to 1. You have to do that through the collective or with a slightly different game idea.”
Florian Wirtz had suffered an inner ligament injury in the right ankle in the Bundesliga game against SV Werder Bremen (0: 2) last Saturday after a violent foul by Mitchell Weiser and will be missing.
However, Bayern do not want to adapt their approach to the German duel. “We cannot change too much in our preparation,” clarified Vincent Kompany, “there are so many other players with quality.”
Despite the convenient advantage on paper, Kompany warned his protégés of too much serenity that the second leg will have “its own story”, “it will not be monotonous, a lot will happen.”
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Thomas Müller also practiced reluctantly in advance. “Both teams will run up with the knife between the teeth”, and those who are not motivated to the tips of the hair “and have all the knives that are somehow regularly used is then wrong!”, According to the veteran, who added that the 3: 0 “is a very good” result.
To this end, the Munich team always “went into the next game with a fire in their stomach” this season, added to the recent embarrassing bankruptcy against VfL Bochum (2: 3), “and we also need that on Tuesday.”