Nuri Sahin suffered a partial ligament tear in his right ankle and Sven Bender a strained tendon in his right ankle as well as a bleeding into the tendon sheaths, according to BVB team doctor Markus Braun.
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Nuri Sahin suffered a partial ligament tear in his right ankle and Sven Bender a strained tendon in his right ankle as well as a bleeding into the tendon sheaths, according to BVB team doctor Markus Braun.
While Bender is definitely ruled out for the final UEFA Champions League group match at Marseilles, Nuri Sahin has a slight chance of featuring in Wednesday’s game. I don’t expect to see Sahin on the pitch on Wednesday and to be honest I wouldn’t take any risk and let him play. Currently it’s too important to have him back at 100% a s quick as possible and not to lose him after the next game for six month because he played although he was slightly injured and things went really worse…
“It would have been nice to get a home game again,“ said BVB sporting director Michael Zorc following the draw on Sunday night as BVB have been drawn to play away from home for the ninth time in their last 10 matches in this competition. We will head to Eintracht Frankfurt on February, 11st or 12nd. By the way, only three days later we will host them at our Westfalenstadion in regular Bundesliga competition.
By the way we got a lot of bad press today and some “fans” seemed to be very disappointed. Funny how the press nowadays more and more jump on bandwagons. A season or even four games ago we were still a sensation and on our way to the top of Europe, – now we have the blues and are on our way back to an average club. It is a hard time for our team but it’s good to see who is a real BVB fan and who a fan of modern success.
At the beginning of the season Jürgen Klopp said that it will be a season of consolidation and although we have a lot of long-time injured players we still have all chances in every competition (Bundesliga, DFB Cup and Champions-League). I understand that enterprise sponsored clubs like Wolfsburg (VW) and Leverkusen (Bayer Leverkusen) with a very small own fan base are really happy now after three years of impressive BVB success, or that Gladbach on 4th place sniff their chance now. I just want to say one thing – please don’t forget that Gladbach made only 16 games so far, they are only in one competition, Wolfsburg didn’t play Champions-League or Euro-League and Leverkusen have only one injured player so far. A season is long and you can be sure we will strike back and their crisis will come. That’s football. In the meantime stick with our BVB. Cheers!
by Marty on December 8th, 2013
