{"id":62227,"date":"2025-03-06T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62227"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:27:28","slug":"bayerns-neuer-suffers-calf-injury-while-celebrating-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/06\/bayerns-neuer-suffers-calf-injury-while-celebrating-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern\u2019s Neuer Suffers Calf Injury While Celebrating Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich captain Manuel Neuer has been sidelined after tearing his calf muscle while celebrating during Wednesday\u2019s 3-0 Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old goalkeeper limped off in the second half after Jamal Musiala\u2019s second goal put Bayern 2-0 up.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Vincent Kompany called the injury \u201ca shame\u201d, especially given the unusual circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Neuer, who recently extended his contract until 2025, had only returned from a year-long absence due to a skiing accident.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Urbig, 21, replaced him in goal, though he faced little challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern, currently eight points clear in the Bundesliga, will travel to Leverkusen for the return leg next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi\u00a0 Bayern Munich captain Manuel Neuer has been sidelined after tearing his calf muscle while celebrating during Wednesday\u2019s 3-0 Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen. The 38-year-old goalkeeper limped off in the second half after Jamal Musiala\u2019s second goal put Bayern 2-0 up. Coach Vincent Kompany called the injury \u201ca shame\u201d, especially given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62229,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62227\/revisions\/62229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}