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Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Bayern Munich star Jamal Musiala breaks silence after suffering horror injury during PSG Club World Cup clash
Jamal Musiala has said there is 'no one to blame' after he broke his leg and dislocated his ankle during Bayern Munich 's Club World Cup quarter-final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain. The 22-year-old sustained the horrific injuries after he collided with PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma at the end of the first half, before the Champions League winners booked their semi-final tie against Real Madrid with a 2-0 win. Footage of the incident showed the Bayern star's ankle getting trapped in between the Italian shot-stopper's body and arms as he went for the ball. The momentum of both players then carried them in opposite directions, with the forward's ankle bearing the brunt of the collision, twisting at a sickening angle as a result. The freak accident left Donnarumma in tears and he dropped to his knees with his head in his hands as Bayern players swarmed to Musiala's assistance. The Italian keeper later posted on Instagram to wish Musiala well, writing: 'All my prayers and well wishes are with you @jamalmusiala10.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jamal Musiala (@jamalmusiala10) Musiala left the field on a stretcher and is now expected to be sidelined for at least four months Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was nevertheless unhappy with his opposition number, accusing Donnarumma of 'taking a risk' with the way he went into the challenge.' But Musiala, who flew back from Atlanta to Munich to undergo surgery, has now said that no one is to blame for the horror injury. 'I wanted to say thanks for all the love and support. It's nice to see how the football world comes together in times like this. I've really appreciated it,' he said in a video posted on Instagram. 'The surgery went really well, I'm in good care and I wanted to say there's no one to blame for this.' 'I think situations like this happen and now I'm just going to use the next period of time to build up my strength and positivity again.' The Germany international is expected to be out 'for the next few months', according to Bayern. Bayern boss Vincent Kompany had described the moment as 'emotional' after the match and admitted: 'Of course it didn't look good. I hope it's not too bad, but it didn't look good. I hope he'll have the best possible recovery.' Musiala scored 21 goals and provided eight assists in all competitions last season as Bayern won the Bundesliga.
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Video: Musiala refuses to blame Donnarumma for injury
Injured Bayern Munich star Jamal Musiala refuses to blame Italy captain Gianluigi Donnarumma for his latest shocking injury: 'Situations like these happen.' Germany international Musiala won't blame Gigio Donnarumma for an injury he sustained during a Club World Cup game between PSG and Bayern Munich last week. Advertisement Musiala fractured his fibula as a result of a broken and dislocated ankle and underwent surgery on Tuesday. 'I wanted to say thank you for all the lovely support I've got from all of you, it really means a lot to me,' Musiala said in a video on Wednesday. ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JULY 05: Medical staff assist Jamal Musiala #42 of FC Bayern Munchen following an injury during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 quarter-final match between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Bayern München at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on July 05, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by) 'It's nice to see how the football world comes together in a time like this. The surgery went really well, I'm in good care, and I wanted to say there's no one to blame for this. Situations like these happen.' Bayern Munich veteran Manuel Neuer had blamed Donnarumma following Musiala's injury, but the Italian goalkeeper reiterated that it was never his intention to hurt his opponent. AUGSBURG, GERMANY – APRIL 04: Jamal Musiala of Bayern Munich goes down with an injury during the Bundesliga match between FC Augsburg and FC Bayern München at WWK-Arena on April 04, 2025 in Augsburg, Germany. (Photo by) Luis Enrique said Donnarumma was 'devastated' due to his unfortunate involvement in the Musiala injury.
New York Times
06-07-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Jamal Musiala's horrific ankle injury: The impact, Bayern Munich's reaction and what happens now
It was one of those stomach-churning moments when, within seconds, you know something has gone badly wrong. Jamal Musiala was writhing in agony, but what really hit hard was the way players on both teams were reacting to the Bayern Munich forward's injury. Paris Saint-Germain defender Willian Pacho knew immediately, holding his head and signalling to the medics on the touchline. His team-mate Marquinhos arrived on the scene quickly, too. Bayern forward Harry Kane was on his knees, checking on Musiala's well-being, as was captain Joshua Kimmich, who took one look at his young team-mate's left leg and turned away in apparent dismay. Advertisement There was also the horrified reaction of Bayern's Canadian full-back Alphonso Davies, who was conducting a live-streaming watchalong on social media while recovering from a serious injury of his own. He tore off his headphones and, like Pacho and Kimmich, held his head in his hands, wide-eyed in a shock. Broadcasters sensibly chose not to replay certain angles of the injury because, as Davies and everyone else knew by now, the images were so graphic. The half-time whistle came moments later and, by this point, it had dawned on PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma that there were serious consequences to his collision with Musiala. Donnarumma fell to his knees, looking devastated as he left the pitch. Musiala was carried off on a stretcher and was soon on his way to an Atlanta hospital, his prospects for the new season in serious doubt before it has even begun. There was no official news from Bayern on Saturday evening. The club did not respond to a story by German newspaper Bild, which suggested that Musiala had broken his left fibula and damaged several ligaments, ruling him out of action for four to five months. After his team's 2-0 defeat in an enthralling, high-quality game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Bayern coach Vincent Kompany said he had rarely felt so 'angry' as he did at half-time. 'There are many things in life that are much more important than this (football),' he said. 'But for these guys it's their life. Jamal lives for this. 'He came back from a setback and then it happens the way it happens and you feel powerless.' Sitting in that news post-match news conference, that word 'angry' seemed to relate to the cruelness of the situation — a cruel blow to a wonderfully gifted 22-year-old who has only just returned to action after a hamstring injury — rather than the nature of the collision with Donnarumma. Moments earlier Kompany had described it as an 'accident'. Advertisement But others in the Bayern camp were nothing like so forgiving. As Kompany's news conference was taking place, elsewhere in the stadium his goalkeeper and captain Manuel Neuer was blaming his opposite number, Donnarumma. So too was Max Eberl, Bayern's board member for sport. 'It was a situation where you don't have to go in like that,' Neuer told reporters. 'That is taking a risk. He takes the risk of injuring his opponent.' Eberl agreed. 'If I jump on the lower leg with 100 kilos, after a sprint, there's a high risk that something will happen,' he said. 'I don't think he (Donnarumma) did it intentionally, but he also didn't take care.' Neuer also criticised Donnarumma's response to Musiala's injury, saying he felt the Italian international should have shown more compassion. 'I went to him and said, 'Don't you want to go to our player,'' he said. 'It's a matter of respect to go over and wish the guy all the best. He did it afterward. Fairness is always important. I would have reacted differently.' Much of this felt harsh. Donnarumma appeared oblivious at first because, having swept up the ball, he had already got up, turned his back and tried to get on with the game. Upon seeing Musiala in such a difficult state, he looked distraught — so much so that Kane found himself trying to console and reassure the goalkeeper. As he left the pitch at half-time, covering his face, PSG backroom staff escorted him towards the dressing room. After the game, Donnarumma posted on Instagram a picture of himself walking off covering his face at half-time, with PSG backroom staff at his side. With it was a message for Musiala, saying 'all my prayers and well wishes' were with the Bayern youngster. There is a different conversation to be had about the incident — about what happens when a goalkeeper, in this case one who is recorded as standing 6ft 5in tall and weighing just over 14 stone, charges out of his goal and collides with an opposition player just above the ankle. Advertisement Another of the modern game's great goalkeepers, Thibaut Courtois, offered his thoughts after Real Madrid's 3-2 victory over Borussia Dortmund. 'I was watching it with my father and my son and when he (Musiala) fell, I said, 'Oh, that's ugly,'' Courtois said. 'Blaming Donnarumma seems excessive to me, because in the end we goalkeepers go to the ball, like the strikers go — and when we do, the strikers do not measure if their feet reach our face. 'It was very bad luck. It's going to hurt Donnarumma's soul too. If it's your team-mate it hurts more obviously and you're going to criticise (the opponent), but the action is not so avoidable. Donnarumma had to go out there.' It was not straightforward incident. Pacho was the player who was closest to the ball in the PSG penalty area, preparing to shepherd it out of play, but both Musiala and Donnarumma showed more determination to reach it. For Musiala, that meant trying to squeeze through a gap that didn't seem to exist — and certainly not once Pacho had appeared to step across him, the way defenders often do in such situations, and Donnarumma had swooped in a manner that saw him dive across both players. Could it have been a penalty? Possibly. Even if Donnarumma got to the ball fractionally ahead of Musiala, the momentum and force of his challenge led him to wipe out his opponent. Goalkeepers are often given the benefit of the doubt in such situations because of the nature of their role. But in an era when playing the ball first is no longer a defence when it comes to heavy challenges elsewhere on the pitch, there was at very least a debate to be had. Even so, as Courtois suggested, the criticism of Donnarumma seemed out of place. There were numerous heavy challenges in the quarter-final, particularly the one on Leon Goretzka that saw Pacho sent off in the 82nd minute. The suggestion that Donnarumma was 'taking a risk' of injuring Musiala is a reasonable one. But it is a contact sport in which those risks are taken dozens of times in every game. Advertisement Donnarumma should not be the story here. The story is Musiala and an injury that threatens to cast a shadow over a brilliant young career, at very least in the short term. 'It doesn't look good,' Kompany said. 'We hope that everything goes well and that he receives the best possible medical treatment and has the best recovery. But I'm not going to make a diagnosis here.' Even on a day when the Bundesliga champions bowed out of the Club World Cup, having played some excellent football at times, and when Thomas Muller made his 756th and final appearance for the club, the Musiala injury dominated thoughts of all in the Bayern camp. 'You could tell immediately that something very bad had happened,' Muller said. 'It didn't look good. You could see during the first half his intensity, how much he loves playing football. In a situation like this, thoughts should centre around Jamal. And let's be careful that we don't have tasteless conversations after someone has been injured like that.' Bayern will go on without Muller, who has served them with distinction for the past 17 years and is now, at 35, pondering whether to pursue a new challenge in Major League Soccer. There was plenty in Bayern's performance in Atlanta, where they were happy to play the European champions at their own game, to suggest their prospects under Kompany for the coming season are bright. But the Musiala injury will hang over Bayern's players as they fly back to Munich on Sunday. Kompany has given them a three-week break to try to rest and recover before building up to the new Bundesliga campaign, which starts on August 23, but for Musiala a season which promised so much is now one of uncertainty. He will hope to be back on this side of the Atlantic for next summer's World Cup. That is quite the incentive as he embarks on the long road to recovery.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Report: Bayern's Musiala fractures fibula; may undergo surgery in US
Bayern Munich's Thomas Mueller and Manuel Neuer embrace after the FIFA Club World Cup quarter-final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Sven Hoppe/dpa Bayern Munich player Jamal Musiala has broken his fibula in Saturday's Club World Cup quarter-final against paris Saint-Germain and faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines, the Bild paper has reported. Bild said that Musiala and suffered ligament damage as well and could be out of action for up to five months. Advertisement Bayern are yet to announce an official diagnosis but board member for sport Max Eberl suggested Musiala may undergo surgery in the US and not fly home with the team on Sunday. Eberl said that team doctors were still planning the next steps after Musiala suffered the left leg injury at the end of the first half of Bayern's 2-0 defeat against PSG. Musiala he completely twisted his left leg while in a scramble for the ball against PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and defender Willian Pacho - in which he got hit by the Italian keeper. Donnarumma had to look away in shock, and players from both teams were also clearly distraught as Musiala was taken off. Advertisement "It looks like an ankle injury or some type but I won't make a diagnosis here," coach Vincent Kompany said. Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer accused Donnarumma of a reckless challenge when he told reporters that "It was a situation where you don't necessarily have to go in like that. "That's risk-taking, you simply accept the injury to an opponent or team-mate." Neuer also questioned whether Donnarumma was really moved by Musiala's fate as he said he told him to go to Musiala. "It's simply a matter of respect to go there, wish him well and leave a little apology." Advertisement Neuer however also said he didn't believe that Donnarumma had intentially caused the injury, a view shared by Eberl who was however also critical. "He didn't take much notice of the fact that someone was standing there. I don't want that to be understood as an accusation ..., but of course I take the risk," Eberl said. Donnarumma later told Musiala via Instagram: "All my prayers and well wishes are with you." PSG coach Luis Enrique also expressed hope that Musiala "recovers well." Kompany said: "What gets my blood boiling is not the result but it happened to someone who loves the game so much and is also very important for us." Advertisement The injury came in Musiala's first start since he sustained a muscle injury three months ago. He had missed the rest of the Bundesliga season for the champions, and the Nations League finals for Germany, before returning for the Club World Cup where he had featured as a substitute in previous games. Another serious injury would be a huge blow for Bayern and for Germany, which plays six World Cup qualifiers in autumn. "It is a fact, it has happened. You can't always have everything under control," Kompany said. Bayern midfielder Konrad Laimer said: "It hurts a lot to lose a player like him. You could see in the first half what a fantastic player he is." Advertisement Thomas Müller, who played his last match for Bayern after 25 years at the club, was also shocked. "It is brutally bitter. We are not robots, we have personal relationships. I wish him a good recovery. He is a very important player," Müller said. Munich's Jamal Musiala arrives at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium ahead of the FIFA Club World Cup quarter-final soccer match against between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich. Sven Hoppe/dpa
The Independent
05-07-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Manuel Neuer blames Gianluigi Donnarumma after Jamal Musiala suffers broken leg at Club World Cup
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has accused his PSG counterpart Gianluigi Donnarumma of recklessness after Jamal Musiala suffered a broken leg during their Club World Cup quarter-final in Atlanta. Musiala was injured in added time before the break following a collision in PSG's penalty area. As the 22-year-old rushed into a challenge with defender William Pacho, PSG keeper Donnarumma dived on to the ball and inadvertently rolled over Musiala's left leg, twisting it at an alarming angle. Bayern's medical team rushed on to the pitch as Donnarumma, visibly shaken, dropped to the ground with his hands on his head in disbelief at the severity of the injury. Players from both teams formed a circle around Musiala who was carried off the field on a stretcher. PSG went on to win the game thanks to Desire Doue's late goal. Afterwards Neuer said: "It was a situation where you don't have to go in like that. That's risk-taking. He was prepared to accept the risk of injuring his opponent.' Neuer added: "I went to him and said, 'Don't you want to go and see our player?' It's a matter of respect, of going there and wishing the guy all the best. He then did it. Fairplay is always a part of it. I would have reacted differently." Donnarumma was clearly upset during the match and posted on Instagram afterwards: 'All my prayers and well wishes are with you Jamal Musiala.' But Bayern's director of sport Max Eberl was also critical of the Italy international. 'When I jump onto his [Musiala's] lower leg while sprinting, weighing 100 kg, there's a high risk of something happening,' Eberl said. 'I don't think he did it intentionally, but he also wasn't being considerate.' The Bayern manager, Vincent Kompany, said his 'blood was boiling' after losing Musiala to such a serious injury, which is likely to mean several months out of action. "I've rarely been so angry at half time, not against my players - I know there are much more important things in life, but for these guys it's their life. Someone like Jamal lives for this. He just came back from a setback and now this happens. You feel powerless. My blood is still boiling right now, not because of the result, that's football. But because it happened to someone that enjoys the game so much.' PSG vice-captain Achraf Hakimi said: 'I send him all my support. I hope he'll be back soon and we'll soon see him on the pitch again.'
