Serge Gnabry’s season was massacred by injuries. It started with a sprained forearm bone, and just as he recovered in December, he was greeted by a muscle injury that kept him out until the end of May. The winger returned for the knockout phase of the Champions League, announced with a goal against Arsenal that he will be a powerful weapon for Bayern at the end of the European competition, and then he injured his thigh muscle again. It was a minor injury (he missed the rematch with Arsenal), after which he played against Real Madrid. In Munich he played 10 minutes and in Madrid he had to leave the game after 27.⚠️ News Serge #Gnabry | He will definitely miss the EUROs due to his torn muscle in his left hamstring. Gnabry will be out for weeks.It’s highly likely that Timo Werner will also miss the EUROs due to his thigh injury. His last international match was in March 2023. A final… pic.twitter.com/wv4n4eKbSV— Florian Plettenberg (@Plettigoal) May 10, 2024 Two days later, the ominous predictions came true. Detailed analyses showed that he renewed the injury to the back of the thigh, and that he will have to take a six-week break due to the muscle tear, BILD reported. This means that Gnabry would have recovered from his injury around the start of the Euros, and that he would be ready to play at the start of the knockout stage on June 29. The publication of the list of coach Julian Nagelsmann is scheduled for May 16, i.e. in six days, and it is almost certain that the injured Gnabri will not be on it. In fact, the former Arsenal player was not projected as a starter in the continental competition, since the selector in the trio behind the attackers mainly used Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirz on the wings, i.e. Ilkay Gundogan centrally.Ruffling more feathers: the Bavarians claim the linesman apologized for the mistakeCertainly, the departure of Gnabry opens an additional place for players who are not standard national team members. Leroy Sane would certainly be someone who would be invited and who can play on both wings, and two other footballers, Jonas Hoffmann (Bayer Leverkusen) and Chris Firich, who is playing the season of his life in Stuttgart, are hoping for invitations. Although Julian Nagelsmann hasn’t used him much in friendlies in recent months, the Bayer Leverkusen all-rounder is having a great season. In 30 Bundesliga matches, he had five goals and nine assists, while he recorded 44 appearances in all competitions, with seven scored and 11 set up goals.Zidane said ‘NO’, Ten Hag is next in line for BayernAs for left-wing Firich, Nagelsmann already tried him at the end of 2023, when he gave him a chance to debut, and at the beginning of 2024, and the 26-year-old helped Stuttgart to a place in the Champions League with eight goals and seven assists in 30 games. Finally, let’s go back to Gnabry and his performance for the national team. Since his debut in November 2016, he has played 45 matches, scoring 22 and bagging nine goals.BUNDESLIGA – MATCHDAY 33Friday21:30: (3.90) Augsburg (4.20) Stuttgart (1.80)Saturday16:30: (1.30) RB Leipzig (5.90) Werder (9.00)16:30: (1.72) Freiburg (3.70) Heidenheim (5.00)16:30: (2.70) Koln (3.15) Union Berlin (2.55)16:30: (2.45) M’ gladbach (3.45) Eintr.Frankfurt (2.80)19:30: (2.20) Mainz (3.60) Dortmund (3.15)Sunday18:30: (1.37) Bayern (5.10) Wolfsburg (7.75)20:30: (4.40) Bochum (4.25) Leverkusen (1.70)***odds are subject to change***
