RB Leipzig is heading into the new Bundesliga season without a replacement for injured Austrian national team player Christoph Baumgartner. As sporting director Marcel Schäfer said ahead of the Saxon club’s first training session, the hope is that Baumgartner will be able to play “most of the first half of the season” for RB. However, that depends on how his rehabilitation—which has gone very well so far—progresses. Baumgartner injured his right thigh during the warm-up before the international match against Tunisia (1-0), required surgery, and consequently missed the World Cup with the Austrian national team.
