The injury speck remains faithful to FC Bayern Munich: as the Kicker reports, right-back Benjamin Pavard has accessed an ankle violation on Wednesday and will be missing the record champion three to four weeks.

In order to preserve Pavard, who had presented himself to the Bayern after his return from the EM vacation in good shape, the season opener on Friday at Borussia Mönchengladbach, the Supercup duel with BVB on Tuesday, as well as the games against Cologne, Hertha BSC and In the cup against the Bremer SV.

Suspected, the 25-year-old will only return to team training in the beginning of September at the beginning of September. For FC Bayern, the failure comes to indeed. Especially on Pavard's position, coach Julian Nagelsmann actually only available the up to date at the Bavarian Bouna Sarr as an alternative, because Joshua Kimmich is also set under the new coach in the midfield center.

Good possible to avoid either Chris Richards or Niklas Sule on the outer-protein position. Both have already dressed this position in the past season even though they are nominal central defenders. An alternative would be Josip Stanisic.

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Bavaria were repeatedly thrown back from injury-related failures during the summer preparation. So Alphonso Davies returned with an ankle injury premature from the Gold Cup, but after all, gave his training comeback. In addition, Marc Roca (outer tape crack) and Lucas Hernandez (meniscus tear) are missing longer.