Völler fears "at least three weeks" break for chic

It happened shortly after halftime. Without opposing influence. But suddenly it did not go for Patrik not anymore. The left wade of the scorer had reported. The Czech heard directly on playing, was then treated and joined without an attempt to return to the playing field, the corridor to the cabin.

A sequence of evil revenues and his consequences Bayer 04 will feel in the coming weeks. Suspicion of muscle fiber rupture was the first diagnosis that Rudi Völler reaffirmed on Sunday opposite the left: "My gut feeling tells me: Patrik will be at least three weeks - if he has a small Fiberess," explained the managing director.

In addition to Völler's belly feeling, the statements of Schick to the World Champion of 1990 also played a role. Had the current and the former center forces of the Werkself after the injury Schick, who played for Sampdoria Genoa and As Rome in the series A, as usual in Italian exchanged.

MRI on Sunday brought definitive certainty

Schick's descriptions and the experiential values ​​of Völler, thus pointing to a not very short break for the left foot, who had scored his 20th goal of the season in Mainz. On Sunday, then a MRI study confirmed the first fears: as Bayer announced, Schick "has drawn up a muscle fabric in the left calf" and is thus not available to the Werkself "for a few weeks."

With Lucas Alario, who scored his ninth goal in Mainz as a substitute for Bayer and thus displaced Dimitar Berbatov as the best Leverkusen Joker of the Bundesliga story, Bayer-Coach Gerardo Seoane is a strong replacement.