No new comeback against Inter
Is Thomas Müller now Bavaria’s super captain?
Is Thomas Müller now Bavaria’s super captain?
04/14/2025, 1:03 p.m.
FC Bayern Munich has to deny the quarter-final second leg at Inter Milan without Manuel Neuer. Jonas Urbig is back in the goal. Thomas Müller waves the captain’s bandage – in a special game that lifts the outgoing Bayern star to a level with Lionel Messi.
The mini hope for a comeback by Manuel Neuer in the quarter-final second leg of FC Bayern Munich in the Champions League broke up. As expected, the captain of the German football record champions on Wednesday (9 p.m./DAZN and in the live ticker on ntv.de) Not in the goal against Inter Milan. Sports board member Max Eberl had already indicated this personnel after the 2-2 in the Bundesliga against Borussia Dortmund. “Image” and Sky now report on a final decision.
“We always hope, but I don’t think,” Eberl had explained at the weekend. The 39-year-old Neuer had suffered a muscle fiber tear in the right calf in the round of 16 of the Champions League against Bayer Leverkusen (3-0) in early March. Then he had to take a training break because the calf showed a reaction. Since the clear victory against Bayer, Neuer from new winter has been represented by Jonas Urbig.
Müller waves captain’s bond against Inter
The U21 national goalkeeper has so far solved its task well, especially in the Champions League. For Urbig, the game in the Giuseppe-Mazza Stadium is already the ninth for FC Bayern. In Milan, the Munichers want to catch up with a 1-2 deficit from the first leg.
Meanwhile, Neuer continues to work on his comeback. It is unlikely that it is enough for the Bundesliga game on Saturday at 1st FC Heidenheim. It would be more realistic to return on April 26th in the home game against the 1st FSV Mainz 05. In a possible Champions League semi-final (April 29/30 and May 6th/7th), Neuer wants to be between the posts.
Thomas Müller can hope for the game in San Siro as against Dortmund, where he convinced, for an assignment as a captain. In the first leg, when Müller had scored 1-1 as a Joker, Joshua Kimmich had run up with the captain’s bandage. Müller and Kimmich are the first two representatives of Neuer as vice-capitas, when both start, the five-year-old original Bavarian apparently has privilege. For Müller, the game on Wednesday is the 163rd in the Champions League. He would do this with Barcelona legend Lionel Messi.
