DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Borussia Dortmund’s defensive worries deepened Monday with central defender Niklas Süle anticipated to be out for 2 months with a proper calf damage sustained throughout a pleasant sport towards Juventus.
Süle suffered a muscle damage and needed to go off simply earlier than halftime throughout Sunday’s match towards the Italian workforce. He had solely changed Mats Hummels within the nineteenth minute of the veteran defender’s farewell sport. The 36-year-old Hummels, who performed for Roma final season after leaving Dortmund for the second time in 2024, was bidding an emotional farewell to the Dortmund followers.
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Dortmund was already with out the injured Nico Schlotterbeck and Emre Can, exacerbating coach Niko Kovac’s scarcity of defenders earlier than the workforce begins the season towards Rot-Weiss Essen within the first spherical of the German Cup on Aug. 18. Dortmund begins its Bundesliga marketing campaign at St. Pauli on Aug. 23.
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