Bitter setback for Sabitzer: BVB star exposes knee injury for months!

Bitter setback for Sabitzer: BVB star exposes knee injury for months!

shock for the Austrian national team: Marcel Sabitzer, the talented midfielder of Borussia Dortmund, will not be part of the decisive Nation League playoff against Serbia. The 31-year-old suffered a serious knee injury in a duel during the away game against RB Leipzig. This injury is expected to pull him out of traffic at least four weeks, as both the ÖFB and his association have announced. According to information from Sport1 he even torn the inner ligament in his knee, which in the worst case means a downtime of up to six weeks.

The situation could not be less favorable for Sabitzer. Until his injury, he had stabilized and played regularly under the new coach Niko Kovac at Borussia Dortmund. The sporting director Sebastian Kehl expressed concern about the severity of the injury caused by a duel with his team -mate Christoph Baumgartner. Ironically, both players were on the list for the starting line-up in the Nation's League doubles against Serbia, but now Sabitzer stays on the equivalent bench, while Baumgartner may play a central role.

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The loss of Sabitzer is a bitter setback for team boss Ralf Rangnick, who had hoped for the experience and skills of the midfielder to achieve a good result against Serbia. Rehabilitation training will be in the first place for the player, while the national team has to prepare themselves without him. If recovery does not progress quickly, Sabitzer could only return on the penultimate matchday of the Bundesliga, which is an extremely critical phase for his personal and professional development - especially after the latest progress on the pitch.

For all fans, it is to be hoped that the ÖFB star will quickly find the old form again and will soon be able to appear again for Dortmund, while at the same time lacking the national team in further competitions.