{"id":354724,"date":"2017-09-19T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=354724"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:18:33","slug":"bayern-munich-keeper-manuel-neuer-ruled-out-until-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/bayern-munich-keeper-manuel-neuer-ruled-out-until-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich keeper Manuel Neuer ruled out until January"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will be out until January after surgery on his broken left foot.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old World Cup winner sustained the same injury to the same foot in April and suffered a repeat in training on Monday.<\/p>\n
Bayern\u00a0are\u00a0in the same Champions League group as Celtic and Neuer will miss their remaining five games.<\/p>\n
“The operation went perfectly, which is the most important thing for now,” said Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.<\/p>\n
“We are now looking to the future. Manuel will be back to his previous best and available in January.”<\/p>\n
Bayern, who began their Champions League campaign with a win over Anderlecht, next face Paris St-Germain in France before hosting Celtic on 18 October.<\/p>\n
Sven Ulreich, a 29-year-old who has made 12 competitive appearances for the German champions since signing from Stuttgart in 2015, is now\u00a0favourite\u00a0to start those games.<\/p>\n
Neuer picked up the original injury during the Champions League quarter-final second-leg defeat by Real Madrid in April.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bayern Munich and Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer will be out until January after surgery on his broken left foot. The 31-year-old World Cup winner sustained the same injury to the same foot in April and suffered a repeat in training on Monday. Bayern\u00a0are\u00a0in the same Champions League group as Celtic and Neuer will miss their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[450,451,396,11230],"yoast_head":"\n