Jamal Musiala injured after Donnarumma challenge ‘You feel powerless,’ says Bayern coach Vincent Kompany Bayern Munich’s coach, Vincent Kompany, said that he felt his blood boil after seeing Jamal Musiala taken off on a stretcher during Bayern Munich’s 2-0 defeat to Paris St-Germain in the quarter-final of the Club World Cup. Musiala’s left ankle appeared to be dislocated following a challenge from Gianluigi Donnarumma just before half-time in Atlanta, with players from both teams covering their faces and looking away, clearly affected by what they had seen. The Bayern Munich coach called the injury an “accident,” but the goalkeeper Manuel Neuer criticised Donnarumma’s challenge and the club’s sporting director, Max Eberl, said that the PSG goalkeeper had not taken sufficient care. Continue reading...

Vincent Kompany’s unbeaten record ended after Lee Jae-sung took apart the injury-hit Bundesliga leaders Those predicting the venue of Vincent Kompany’s first Bundesliga defeat as Bayern Munich boss might not have had this one circled in red on their fixture calendar. Maybe they should have, though. This is becoming the Rekordmeister’s new favourite banana skin. After a fourth league loss at Mainz in five seasons one could place the 05ers in the small pantheon of relative Bayern-slayers, besides Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Mönchengladbach. That, though, would be conveniently forgetting Bayern’s stroll here in the DfB Pokal six weeks ago or their 8-1 demolition of Bo Henriksen’s team in Munich last spring. More currently, the injury situation that worked Eric Dier into a first Bundesliga start of the season and left Daniel Peretz and Thomas Müller standing in for Manuel Neuer and Harry Kane left clues on the teamsheet. The signs had been there in Tuesday’s Champions League win over Shakhtar Donetsk in Gelsenkirchen, with 5-1 impressive on paper but flatteringly garnished with late goals, including Michael Olise’s extraordinary solo effort. This was a weary, worn-out looking Bayern that had a virtual monopoly on possession but created very little in the way of real goalscoring opportunities. Continue reading...