The worst nightmare of the Senegalese national team was fulfilled this Tuesday: the Bayern MonacoBundesliga leader, beaten 6-1 to Werder Bremen (7th) to settle at the head of the table, but lost striker Sadio Mané due to injurytwelve days before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where the African striker is called to be one of the stars.
The attacker asked to be replaced due to a pain in his right knee that caused him to fall after committing a defensive infringement. Mané took the field and tried to continue playing after being treated for a few minutes, before signaling his coach Julian Nagelsmann to take him off the pitch.
Second in the vote for the last Ballon d’Or, behind the French Karim Benzema, Mané is the star of Senegal, the last African champion (in February) and finalist with Liverpool in the last Champions League, before joining Bayern Monaco ..}
In Doha, Senegal will make their debut on 21 November against the Netherlands in a Group A duel completed by hosts Qatar and Ecuador.
The absence of Mané did not affect Bayern too much, who thanks to this fifth consecutive victory bring them to 31 points, four more than Freiburg and five more than Union Berlin, who completes the provisional podium and who will play respectively on Wednesday Leipzig and Augsburg.
In another match on Tuesday, Borussia Dortmund (4th) saw their streak of three consecutive Bundesliga wins after losing 2-0 at Wolfsburg (8th).
Edin Terzic’s men thus remain with 25 points in the standings and at the end of the day they could also be out of the Champions League positions.
Borussia Mönchengladbach (9th) and Hertha Berlin (16th) lost the opportunity to climb the rankings after losing by the same result (2-1) in the trips to Stuttgart (13th) and Bochum (17th).
Source: Clarin
