The Bavarian side have confirmed the Colombian midfielder has torn ligaments in his left knee and will be out of action for a spell <\/p>\n
James Rodriguez faces several weeks on the sidelines after Bayern Munich announced the midfielder has a knee injury.<\/p>\n
The Colombia international has started five Bundesliga games and was an unused substitute for Saturday’s 3-2 Klassiker defeat away to Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n
That loss left the champions seven points behind their rivals and news of James’ injury deals a further blow to under-pressure head coach Niko Kovac.<\/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 Bayern confirmed on Wednesday that James has sustained a partial lateral collateral ligament tear in his left knee in training on Tuesday, an injury that will keep him out for several weeks.<\/p>\n “James’ knee will initially be rested for 10 days before he begins treatment and rehabilitation,” a club statement read.<\/p>\n James, 27, is therefore expected to miss the rest of 2018 and will not be able to play any further part in Bayern’s Champions League group campaign.<\/p>\n Bayern have taken 10 points from four matches with group games at home to Benfica and away to Ajax to come.<\/p>\n Kovac, under fire after Bayern’s slow start under his leadership, last month denied reports of a rift with James, who is on loan at the club from Real Madrid.<\/p>\n “We have a lot of international players. There will always be cases where one player plays and another doesn’t,” Kovac said. “James is a player of extraordinary quality and is important for the club. He’s proved that several times, but I can’t play with 12 men. He will play as many games as others.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bavarian side have confirmed the Colombian midfielder has torn ligaments in his left knee and will be out of action for a spell James Rodriguez faces several weeks on the sidelines after Bayern Munich announced the midfielder has a knee injury. The Colombia international has started five Bundesliga games and was an unused substitute…<\/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-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Editors' Picks<\/h3>\n