MUNICH — Manuel Neuer is will miss Bayern Munich‘s Champions League spherical of 16 second-leg towards Bayer Leverkusen after injuring himself celebrating Jamal Musiala‘s purpose in a 3-0 first-leg win on the Allianz Enviornment on Wednesday.
Former Germany No. 1 Neuer, 38, was changed by current signing Jonas Urbig, who made his Bayern debut as a consequence, after hurting his calf after an over-exuberant response to Musiala’s second-half purpose.
Neuer was unable to proceed and Bayern confirmed on Thursday that scans confirmed the goalkeeper had suffered a torn muscle fibre in his proper calf.
“I do not wish to put an excessive amount of stress on Jonas [Urbig] or Manu,” Kompany mentioned after the match. “We’ve had instances with out Harry Kane, Musiala and Joshua Kimmich this season and we now have additionally performed with out Manuel, so we are going to simply need to do it with out him once more.
“We’ve expertise in our group to proceed. This was Jonas’s debut and you may have simpler matches in fact, however within the first months with us, he appears actually calm and managed in his actions.”
Bayern will journey to Leverkusen subsequent Tuesday with one foot within the quarterfinals, however Kompany mentioned the tie remains to be not over.
“We performed nicely for one half, not of the sport, however of the tie,” he mentioned. “Within the second-half, in Leverkusen, we now have to play the identical means.”
