Reus doubtful with adductor muscle injury
Reuters - Friday 17 February 2012, 11:37
Brief news from the
Bundesliga on Friday ahead of this weekend's matches:
Borussia Monchengladbach top scorer Marco Reus could miss
their league game at Kaiserslautern on Saturday after
picking up an adductor muscle injury in training this week.
Coach Lucien Favre said it was not clear whether Reus, who
has scored 13 league goals this season, would be fit in time for
Saturday despite a medical check in Munich on Thursday.
"We hope he can play but we cannot say that yet," Favre told
reporters. Defender Martin Stranzl is also doubtful after
suffering an ankle injury in training on Wednesday.
Surprise package Gladbach are third in the Bundesliga, three
points behind leaders Borussia Dortmund.
Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes heaped praise on Austria
international David Alaba ahead of their trip to Freiburg on
Saturday after the 19-year-old midfielder successfully
filled in for injured Bastian Schweinsteiger in the last two
games.
"He has done a great job in integrating. He has been
outstanding," Heynckes told reporters on Thursday.
"He has matured and developed as a player," Heynckes said of
the teenager, who joined in 2008 from Austria Vienna. "He is
hungry, hard-working and ambitious. He will go far."
Bayern are second in the Bundesliga, two points behind
Dortmund.
Cologne have included Slovenia international Miso Brecko
in their squad to face Nuremberg on Saturday, despite
fining the player a reported 25,000 euros earlier in the week
for parking his car on tram tracks while drunk.
"He is in the squad," said Cologne coach Stale Solbakken.
Brecko, who has apologised for driving his vehicle on to the
tracks early on Tuesday after leaving a carnival party in the
city, was fined for "unprofessional behaviour," the club said.