Bayern Munich suffer double injury blow ahead of Real Madrid clash
Guerreiro was forced off in the 17th minute of Saturday's Bundesliga clash with Stuttgart, and the Munich giants have now confirmed that he is facing a spell out with an ankle injury.
Bayern have put a timescale on his absence, but he will definitely be missing when Thomas Tuchel's side head to Real Madrid for the second leg of their European Cup semi-final.
«FC Bayern will have to make do without Raphael Guerreiro in the next few matches. The Portuguese sustained a ligament and capsule injury in his ankle in Saturday's Bundesliga match away at Stuttgart, as confirmed by a scan by the FC Bayern medical department,» read a statement from the German club.
Dier, meanwhile, suffered a head injury during the same match when he produced a goal-saving header.
Raphael Guerreiro out, Eric Dier a doubt for Real Madrid gameThe Englishman, who is on loan at Bayern from Tottenham Hotspur, was left with a cut on his head earlier in the contest, and it then reopened when he kept out an effort from Serhou Guirassy in the Bundesliga affair.
Dier was bandaged up and played on until the interval, when he was replaced.
After the match, Bayern head coach Tuchel provided an update on the situation, with the centre-back now regarded as a doubt for the game in the Spanish capital.
«Eric had to get stitches to the head wound that then opened up again so we at some point said it was enough. We did not want to risk it,» Tuchel told reporters.
The German also revealed that Dier had been carrying a thigh problem but insisted that the reason for his
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