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14.04.2022Bayer 04

Seoane on personnel situation: No excuses

Monday was about recovery, Tuesday a day off for the Werkself – and Wednesday saw the start of the build-up for the big match against RB Leipzig. Head coach Gerardo Seoane gave a personnel update following the first training session for the Werkself after the goalless draw at VfL Bochum. The key names: Sardar Azmoun, Jonathan Tah and Karim Bellarabi.
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"Karim will definitely miss a couple of games but we are hoping Jona will be able to play at the weekend," said the Swiss coach about the two players who went off injured. Bellarabi suffered a muscle injury in his left thigh in the Bochum game, and Tah was taken off due to a rib injury.

 

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Sardar Azmoun was able to train again with the squad on Wednesday after recovering from flu. "Sardar needs more time to be 100% fit," said Seoane. The 43-year-old coach is still hoping to be able to call on the services of the winter signing against Leipzig on Sunday 17 April (kick-off: 19.30 CEST): "He can help us immediately in the run-in with his instinct and his technique."

"Ambition to achieve the maximum"

The difficult personnel situation – with Wirtz, Adli, Frimpong and Fosu-Mensah already out for the rest of the season – was specifically excluded as an excuse by Seoane in the press conference: "We have the motivation and the ambition to achieve the maximum."

The head coach is confident looking back at the first half of the season: "We showed how to do it before the winter break when we didn't have any strikers available. We have to believe in our own strengths and look for new options."

 

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