Victim of a torn muscle, German attacking midfielder Deniz Undav will be absent for several weeks, his club VFB Stuttgart announced on Thursday.
Victim of a muscle tear in the back of his left thigh, German attacking midfielder Deniz Undav will be absent in the coming weeks, his club Stuttgart announced Thursday in a press release. Deniz Undav had to give up the international window in mid-November and the two Nations League matches with Germany, suffering a strain in the back of his left thigh before the Bundesliga match against Frankfurt two weeks ago .
Back in the Stuttgart group, the 28-year-old center forward was injured in training on Wednesday. The MRI carried out revealed a muscle tear in the back of his left thigh, which will keep him away from the lawns in “the next few weeks”Stuttgart said. “It’s speculation, but a lot of things would have to go well for us to see him on the field again this year” 2024, estimated Stuttgart coach Sebastian Hoeness on Thursday at a press conference.
Stuttgart receives bottom Bochum on Saturday (3:30 p.m.) in the league and travels to Belgrade on Wednesday to challenge Red Star (6:45 p.m.) in the Champions League. Fourth top scorer in the Bundesliga (18 goals) last season with Stuttgart (2nd place behind Leverkusen), Undav has scored 5 goals in ten league matches this season. Called up for the first time with Germany in March 2024 (first cap against France on March 23), he scored his first three goals in the Mannschaft jersey in September and October, one in Amsterdam against the Netherlands and two in Zenica against Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Morocco
