Bayern Munich have been dealt another injury blow ahead of the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie against Arsenal.
The German club drew 2-2 with the Gunners in the first leg at Emirates Stadium this week.
That was followed by a 2-0 victory at home to Koln in the Bundesliga, with Raphael Guerreiro and Thomas Muller getting on the scoresheet.
However, Thomas Tuchel is set to be without an important player as result of an injury that was sustained against Koln.
The news will be a source of frustration for Tuchel as Bayern look to finish strongly in what has been a challenging campaign.
Thomas Tuchel will be without another key player when Bayern Munich take on Arsenal
Tuchel will be without Kingsley Coman for the second leg against Arsenal due to an adductor muscle issue.
The winger, who featured as a substitute in the first leg against the Gunners, had to be replaced in the 50th minute against Koln.
He told Sky; ‘The big downside to the whole game is the injury to Kingsley Coman. It makes me very sad because I know how hard he worked and how important he is for us. First Serge Gnabry is out, then he and Leroy Sane are doubts [for Wednesday].’
As Tuchel alluded to, Bayern are also set to be without another winger in Serge Gnabry.
Gnabry scored against his former club Arsenal but was then taken off in the 70th minute having suffered a hamstring problem.
Bayern confirmed Gnabry’s absence in an official statement: ‘FC Bayern must do without Serge Gnabry for the time being,’ the club’s statement read.
‘The winger suffered a muscle strain in his left hamstring in the 2-2 draw at Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-final first leg, as confirmed by a scan by the FC Bayern medical department.’
Kingsley Coman is out of the Arsenal game after the winger suffered an adductor injury
Bayern are already without Serge Gnabry against Arsenal due to his injury in the first leg
Another winger, Leroy Sane, has been struggling with a pubic bone irritation, which meant that he didn’t feature against Koln. However, Sane expressed hope that he could feature against Arsenal, telling BILD: ‘I hope so. It should work.’
Goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was rested against Koln after recently returning from an adductor injury but he should be able to play against Arsenal.
Commenting on Coman’s injury, Thomas Muller stated that Bayern have had to cope with injury problems at this stage of the season before, such as when Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben were sidelined.
Muller told Sky: ‘It’s not the first time in my time here that we lost important players towards the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the Champions League, that was the case with Rib [Ribéry] and Rob [Robben] from time to time’.
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