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Borussia Dortmund will have to do without Erling Haaland in Wednesday night’s Champions League game against Lazio Roma (9pm CET / Sky). As BVB announced shortly before kick-off, BVB’s most dangerous attacker has torn a muscle fiber. The Norwegian will be absent from his team for several weeks. “Erling won’t play until early January. I may have played too much, ”BVB coach Lucien Favre said shortly before kick-off in Sky.
Haaland played around 1,120 minutes for BVB this season; only defenders Manuel Akanji, Mats Hummels and Thomas Meunier, who has also been injured in the meantime, have more time on the field.
Haaland has scored six goals in the first four games of the current Champions League season, more than any other player. Haaland scored 17 of BVB’s 37 goals this season in all competitions. “At first we thought it wouldn’t be so bad,” Favre said of Haaland’s training injury: “But now he can’t play.”
