Bad news for Borussia Dortmund. Tuesday evening, at the end of the match in the 3rd round of the German Cup against Werder Bremen, 3-2 winner, Marco Reus, the forward and captain of the next PSG opponent, in the knockout stages of the Champions League, the February 18, left the lawn injured in the right thigh.
This Wednesday, the German club explained that this muscular injury forced Reus to at least four weeks off. No first leg against Paris therefore and maybe no second leg on March 11. It is a blow for the Germans of Lucien Favre and for the player of 30 years often injured during his career.
# BVB-Kapitän Marco Reus hat sich im @DFB_Pokal eine Muskelverletzung zugezogen. Nach jetzigem Stand wird er in rund vier Wochen wieder ins Training einsteigen können.
Gute Besserung, @woodyinho! 🤕🤞 pic.twitter.com/bWoDEIpNlz
Fortunately, Dortmund can count on attack on their new asset Erling Haaland. At 19, the Norwegian center-forward arrived at the start of the last transfer window from RB Salzburg for around twenty million euros already has 8 goals in four appearances. He scored on Tuesday as he did twice last weekend.
Leverkusen and Frankfurt on the program
PSG is not spared from injuries either. If that of Neymar, absent from the trip to Nantes (2-1), this Tuesday, does not raise any concern, it is not necessarily the same for Marquinhos engaged in a race against the clock. Abdou Diallo is already sure not to take part in the first leg.
Between now and the round of 16, Borussia will play two Bundesliga games (8 against Leverkusen and 14 against Eintracht) while Paris will have three to play: Lyon on Sunday, the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France in Dijon on the 12th and against Amiens on the 15th.
Since the beginning of the year, despite a much busier calendar than its next European opponent, PSG has achieved a flawless course during which Thomas Tuchel has increased rotations to keep his workforce in the best conditions.