{"id":384990,"date":"2026-04-10T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/384990\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:40:09","slug":"bayern-teenager-karl-sidelined-with-thigh-muscle-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/384990\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern teenager Karl sidelined with thigh muscle tear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">MUNICH, Germany, April 10 &#8211; Bayern Munich teenager Lennart Karl will be sidelined for some time with a thigh muscle injury, the club said on Friday, as the Bavarians prepare to challenge for three titles in the final stretch of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 18-year-old has enjoyed a meteoric rise this season and is a serious contender for a spot on Germany&#8217;s World Cup squad in May. The midfielder has scored five goals and delivered four assists in the Bundesliga alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">&#8220;Lennart Karl has torn a muscle in his right rear thigh. The diagnosis was confirmed by the FC Bayern medical unit,&#8221; the club said. &#8220;It means the 18-year-old attacking midfielder will be sidelined for the foreseeable future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Bayern, nine points clear at the top of the Bundesliga with six games left to play, travel to St Pauli on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They then host Real Madrid next week in their Champions League quarter-final second leg following the Germans&#8217; 2-1 win in Spain on Tuesday. Karl was an unused substitute in that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Bayern also face Bayer Leverkusen in the German Cup semi-final on April 22. REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUNICH, Germany, April 10 &#8211; Bayern Munich teenager Lennart Karl will be sidelined for some time with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-384990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}