Bayern Munich Faces Injury Crisis in Telekom Cup Against RB Leipzig

Bayern Count the Cost as Injuries Mar Telekom Cup Clash with RB Leipzig

Pre-season friendlies are supposed to bring answers. For Bayern Munich, the Telekom Cup delivered nothing but questions – and a mounting sense of dread.

With the new campaign days away, Vincent Kompany watched three key players go down injured against RB Leipzig, with a fourth struggling at the final whistle. The result on the day suddenly felt irrelevant.

The first alarm came early. Just 10 minutes into the match, Konrad Laimer went into a challenge with David Raum and came off worse. He had to leave the field, cutting short a night that was meant to sharpen his fitness, not test Bayern’s depth.

The pattern didn’t stop there. As the heat and tempo wore on, Min-jae Kim was the next to go. During the second hydration break, around the 66-minute mark, the centre-back exited, another first-team pillar walking off before full time. One by one, Kompany’s options were being stripped away in what should have been a controlled rehearsal.

Then came the most worrying scene of the night. Jamal Musiala, who had just scored Bayern’s third goal and looked bright in attack, suddenly went down, appearing to collapse from heat exhaustion only four minutes after finding the net. Medical staff rushed on. A stretcher was almost required. In a match designed to tune rhythm and confidence, Bayern were instead left counting bodies.

As if that wasn’t enough, Sacha Boey cramped up after the final whistle. It summed up the evening: even when the game was over, the problems kept coming.

All of this lands at the worst possible time. The Franz Beckenbauer Supercup is scheduled for next week, with another friendly against Heidenheim still to come before that. These aren’t fringe players picking up knocks; they are core members of the first team, central to Bayern’s plans for the 2026/27 season.

Kompany now faces an early-season puzzle he never wanted. Bayern’s schedule isn’t waiting for anyone. The real question is whether their squad will be ready when the serious football starts.