The physical state of the players after the break was one of the great unknowns before the return of the Bundesliga and, in the end, the worst fears of the physios ended up being confirmed. The price to pay for two months in quarantine, without being able to train normally, was high for some players in the top German competition, which had a total of eight injured in the first six games after the return. Too many. But it was to be expected after just a week training as a team.
The first to set off alarms was Reyna. The American midfielder was going to sign his debut in the eleven of the black-yellow team, but he could not jump to the grass of Signal Iduna Park after injuring himself during the warm-up. The same thing happened with Hazard, who did play and even scored a goal in Borussia's 4-0 victory in the Ruhr basin derby against Schalke until he was replaced in the final stages of the crash by knee discomfort . Dortmund already has a total of seven injured in its ranks.
Nor could Todibo (Schalke), Rudy (Hoffenheim), Skjelbred (Hertha), Bebou (Hoffenheim), Gjasula (Paderborn) and Thuram (Gladbach) complete their respective clashes.. The number of injured may increase tomorrow and the day after, when the Cologne-Mainz, Union-Bayern and Bremen-Leverkusen duels complete the twenty-sixth day. Oliver Schmidtlein, ex-physio of Bayern and Mannschaft, saw it coming: “There is a high risk. The isolation will have left consequences in the soccer players“He explained before the clashes in the Munich daily TZ.