Schalke striker suffered an injury yesterday in the championship game and will not play next week in the match that the Bundesliga grouping will have against PAOK Salonika in the Champions League play-off.
Debut with the left foot for Schalke 04 in the new season. In the first round ended 3-3 at home with Hamburg, and yesterday they lost 4-0 with Wolfsburg in their travel to Volkswagen Arena. A start not at all encouraging for Jens Keller, the tactician of the German side.
Besides the unfavorable results in the first two stages of the Bundesliga, Jens Keller will face another problem. In yesterday’s game Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has not entered the field in the second half due to a knee injury, which will not allow him to play in next week’s match against PAOK Salonika, in the first clash of the Champions League play-off.
“It looks like the internal ligament is affected. I must wait for the results of tests which will be carried out on Sunday.” said Huntelaar after the game.
Nor Schalke coach was very optimistic when asked if he could use on Huntelaar in the match on Wednesday night, which they will play at home. “It is not looking good,” said the tactician of the grouping from Veltins-Arena.