In addition to Manuel Neuer’s shoulder injury, there are also calf problems. Gradually, the question arises as to whether the national goalkeeper will be fit in time for the World Cup.
As the Bild newspaper reports, Neuer was only able to complete a ten-minute rehabilitation training session on Thursday. The Bayern captain is now not only struggling with persistent shoulder pain, but also with calf problems. However, the tabloid gave no information on how serious the calf problems are.
Coach Julian Nagelsmann said on Friday what many fans are now thinking: “If he’s still in pain in five weeks, he won’t play the World Cup.” The 36-year-old goalkeeper has already missed the last five games because he is still not resilient after a bruise in the left shoulder corner joint.
On the one hand, Nagelsmann was confident that Neuer would be fit in time for the World Cup. At the same time, he admitted that he was “not a clairvoyant”: “Manu and I can’t look into his body. We don’t know when the pain will stop. I don’t know, but I’m sure he can play the World Cup . We do everything for that.”
The Munich coach emphasized that his captain would only consider returning when Neuer no longer felt pain in his shoulder. Bayern rule out the use of painkillers, according to the picture.
“We did that against Dortmund and that was probably a tad too early,” revealed Nagelsmann self-critically. According to the picture, Neuer suffered the bruise in the shoulder joint on Thursday (October 6) before the game at BVB.
After taking a break in both the final training session on Friday and when he was sweating on Saturday, Neuer really wanted to be on the pitch on Saturday evening and took a large amount of painkillers to do so. On Sunday, according to Bild, the “pain boomerang” came.
Neuer’s comeback plan now includes completing the first parts of goalkeeper training on Monday. The keeper would like to play two more league games before the tournament in Qatar – against Bremen (November 8) and Schalke (November 12).
Julian Nagelsmann hasn’t given up hope of playing for Hertha next week either: “It’s going to take a while! We’re looking at next weekend. But I don’t want to put any pressure on it. We’ll have to wait and see for the rest of the week.”
“The corner joint needs rest. Of course he also does stress tests. But not under full load, otherwise we’ll have the same cheese all over again. It’s a structure that needs rest. The shoulder is generally a complicated joint. It needs rest,” the coach generally asked for patience.
This article was originally posted on 90min.com/de as Calf problems: Will Neuer miss the World Cup? released.
