The 32-year-old was kneed in the face by Kevin Volland in the 30th minute and starts every game with a special glove due to a an old finger injury <\/p>\n
Augsburg goalkeeper Andreas Luthe played on despite biting off part of his tongue against Bayer Leverkusen, having already started the game with a broken finger.<\/p>\n
The Bundesliga side were defeated 1-0 by a 75th minute Lucas Alario goal, but Luthe had persevered in pain\u00a0between the posts after he took a knee to the face from Leverkusen forward Kevin Volland on the half-hour mark.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky <\/em> after the game he said: “The neck is a bit stiff and part of my tongue is gone. But that’s no problem.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below<\/span> <\/p>\n Juve on alert: Exiled Icardi may have already played his final game for Inter Sarri vindicated for dropping Kepa as Chelsea & Pedro impress in Spurs win Magnificent Mane takes centre stage as league leaders Liverpool put on a five-star show Lukaku sends reminder that his Man Utd career is far from over <\/p>\n Luthe has already built a reputation for playing through pain as he revealed in the summer that he has to wear a special glove because an old hand injury refuses to heal.<\/p>\n “The little finger is now so broken that I cannot leave it alone,” he told Sport Bild <\/em> during\u00a0\u00a0Augsburg’s pre-season\u00a0training tour in South Tyrol, Italy. “That’s why I always tape it to the ring finger. “<\/p>\n “I cannot imagine it any other way around now.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Augsburg are on a difficult run, having lost their last four games, and have now slipped to 14th in\u00a0the table. Next Saturday sees them take on\u00a013th place Shalke in an important encounter if they are to distance themselves from the drop.\u00a0<\/p>\n Luthe\u00a0was positive about his side’s performance at Bayer, who are three places higher, but lamented the way Augsburg have been conceding\u00a0too many goals\u00a0in recent weeks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n “We have delivered a decent away game, we are a team that can pin any opponent, as we have shown today,” the keeper continued after the defeat. “But unfortunately we currently need too many ways to score goals and are punished mercilessly for our mistakes.”<\/p>\n The 32-year-old joined Augsburg from Bochum in 2016 and started the season as second-choice keeper, but has become a regular since being handed an opportunity in the fifth game of the campaign.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 32-year-old was kneed in the face by Kevin Volland in the 30th minute and starts every game with a special glove due to a an old finger injury Augsburg goalkeeper Andreas Luthe played on despite biting off part of his tongue against Bayer Leverkusen, having already started the game with a broken finger. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n