🚨 As if that wasn’t enough! Germany star goes off injured | OneFootball

Time and again, he sat on the ground in the first half, even had to be treated off the pitch, kept coming back into the game, but clearly wasn’t moving all that smoothly.

Shortly after half-time, it is now clear: Germany defender Nico Schlotterbeck cannot continue.

His body, specifically his knee, continued to cause problems — exactly what is behind it is still not entirely clear, so the BVB star had to remain in the dressing room.

Antonio Rüdiger came on for him, in a match that at the start of the second half is continuing just as the first period ended.

For the team of national coach Julian Nagelsmann, it certainly won’t be particularly pleasant to have to spend the remaining time chasing a deficit against the Ivory Coast team. And now there is also Schlotterbeck’s injury-enforced substitution.

This is certainly not how any of us imagined it. All that remains is to hope that it’s nothing serious. 

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