Augsburg (AP) – FC Bayern Munich can compete in the neighborhood duel at FC Augsburg with national soccer player Serge Gnabry.
The winger is in the leaders’ starting line-up against FC Augsburg in the evening. Gnabry had to leave the field prematurely on the Sunday before in the 2-1 win against SC Freiburg with muscular problems.
Coach Hansi Flick only made one change in the last game of the first half of the season compared to the previous game. Lucas Hernández replaces Alphonso Davies in the defense line. Leroy Sané is back on the bench as a joker. Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting is not part of the squad. The wife of the Bayern attacker is expecting a child, as the German record champions announced.
After the 2-0 defeat in Bremen, two missing professionals return to the team at FCA. Defensive players Iago is fit again after neck problems. Marco Richter reinforces the hosts’ offensive again after a yellow-red suspension. The center forward Florian Niederlechner and Alfred Finnbogason are initially on the bench.
At Union Berlin, Florian Hübner, who came into focus because of allegations of racism, is surprisingly in the starting line-up for the game at RB Leipzig. The defender, who got into an argument with Leverkusen’s Nadiem Amiri on the previous day, had injured himself in a training duel the previous Monday. Initially, a longer downtime was feared, the club had not announced a diagnosis.
At Leipzig, striker Alexander Sörloth gets another chance against Union. The Norwegian international scored his first Bundesliga goal in the last home game against Borussia Dortmund. In addition, national player Lukas Klostermann is back in the starting line-up for the first time since mid-October.
Bundesliga club SC Freiburg is starting the home game against Eintracht Frankfurt with Janik Haberer. For the midfielder, who surprisingly made his comeback as a Joker in the 2-1 defeat at Bayern Munich after a long injury break, it is the first starting line-up in eight months. Baptiste Santamaria, injured in the knee, is out of action.
At Eintracht, returnee Luka Jovic is initially back on the bench despite his two goals against FC Schalke 04 (3-1) last Sunday. At the back right, after saying goodbye to Captain David Abraham, the Brazilian Tuta begins.
VfB Stuttgart goes into the game at Arminia Bielefeld with three changes. Tanguy Coulibaly and Sasa Kalajdzic join the team for the two yellow-banned Silas Wamangituka and Nicolás Gonzalez. Gonzalo Castro will be replaced by Philipp Förster. The East Westphalia run up with the team that had last fought 0-0 at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
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