The Bayern, absolute dominator of Group E with a full 12 points and +15 in goal difference (17-2), visits Dinamo Kiev already qualified for the round of 16, but without the first place mathematically assured. He will look for the missing point with subzero weather in Ukraine, where Dinamo need to win to rush their round of 16 options or to fight for a place in the Europa League.
The team of Julian Nagelsmann It is the clear favorite, but it arrives decimated by the refusal of several players to be vaccinated against Covid-19, a fact that prevents them from competing by being in quarantine due to direct contact with an infected person. It already affects performance in the Bundesliga, as seen with the defeat in Augsburg (2-1) that allowed Borussia Dortmund to move to one point.
Joshua Kimmich, Serge Gnabry, Jamal She had to, Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting and Michaël Cooking are the five quarantined players who have not traveled to Kiev and who join Nicklas’s casualties Close and Josip Stanisic, infected days ago. The absentee list rises to eight due to the sanction of Upamecano. According to Bild, the club has decided to cut the salary of those not vaccinated who miss matches due to contagion or quarantine, causing a heated debate in Germany. What’s more, Kingsley Coman and Marcel Sabitzer They are serious doubt due to injury.
“I don’t think this situation will lead to collapse,” he commented. Nagelsmann, although he admitted that “it would be better if everything was quiet”