The Bayern game will be key, from a motivational perspective too. With Schweinsteiger out, we willl see how important he is for Bayern and if him being out makes any difference for them.
What the heck, I didn't notice the part "for the rest of the season" until now. God, that is terrible news. How I hate injuries :icon_confused:
You forgot to mention Marian Sarr (18), who is very highly rated and his move from Leverkusen last year started controversal discussions about stealing talents. I also cannot say, if Sarr or Günter r ready, but both have been highly rated in the past and the potential should be there.
You could just see, that he was not fully recovered and that diagnosis is proof for me, that he was not 100% fit and prob played under pain. The tough midfield situation with Thiago, Martinez, Götze, Höjbjerg, Kirchhoff all injured maybe forced him to come back bit too early. I really hope that he ll be able to participate winter training camp in January with a top fit BS31 for the 2nd half of the season, cos only then he is a real help for Bayern. Thiago, like Martinez, also just coming back from injury so he needs time to get top fit too, but its his chance to shine now.
What Martinez Kroos Thiago? Bayern plays 4-1-4-1, and you forget that Gotze is a starter. If Thiago gets in the line up he'll start as an attacking midfielder a bit like a box to box but apparently it won't happen. Robben wasn't injured for long has just returned so the 4 players in front of Martinez will be Ribery - Gotze -Kroos -Robben. But he uses Lahm pretty much on their as well as a kind of box to box, so you can't know and apparently a 4-3-3 won't happen.
