Haaland and Hummels fight injuries ahead of Brugge clash
Both the BVB's met important offensive and defensive actors are day-to-day with injuries ahead of a Wednesday UEFA Champions League match against Brugge.
| Erling Haaland. | Photo: Marco Verch, CC BY-SA 2.0 |
"I didn't feel a sting," the 31-year-old explaining in a post match interview, "I hope I'll win the [healing] race against time by Wednesday."
Any muscle tear would ordinarily be accompanied by an acutely sharp pain. It is therefore likely that the muscle merely seized up, causing cramp-like complications.
With respect to talismanic striker Erling Haaland, who didn't even make the match day bench squad with unspecified knee problems, German footballing magazine Kicker reports that inflammation of the patella tendon compelled trainer Lucien Favre to give the young phenom a full break.
"We tend to forget that [at his age] he's still growing," Favre said of the 20-year-old, "Sometimes it's dangerous for him to play too much."
