De Ligt ruled out of Der Klaasiker with knee ligament injury

Bayern Munich defender Matthijs de Ligt has been ruled out for an unspecified interval of time after struggling a knee ligament injury in Wednesday’s 2-1 German Cup loss to third-tier Saarbruecken, the membership mentioned on Thursday.

The Dutch worldwide needed to be taken off within the twenty fourth minute of their second-round match.

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“Matthijs de Ligt sustained a partial tear of the ligament in his right knee joint,” the German champions said in a statement.

“That’s the outcome of a scan carried out by the club’s medical department on Thursday. Centre-back de Ligt will therefore miss FC Bayern’s upcoming games.”

Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel mentioned it gave the impression to be a repeat of a knee injury that De Ligt suffered in September which sidelined him for 3 weeks.

“It’s the same knee again, the same capsule [in the joint] again. It’s very painful but there is currently no diagnosis yet,” he mentioned.

De Ligt’s injury current Tuchel with a defensive injury disaster forward of Saturday’s Der Klassiker at Borussia Dortmund.

Joshua Kimmich, who dropped again into defence alongside Kim Min-Jae on Wednesday after De Ligt went off, is suspended for the sport owing to a purple card he picked up final week. Meanwhile Davot Upamecano, the one different specialist center-back on the membership, stays sidelined with a hamstring injury that has stored him out for a month.

Bayern are in second place within the Bundesliga two factors behind leaders Bayer Leverkusen.

Information from Associated Press was used on this report