Rooney, Vermaelen, Dani Alves And The Injured Players To Miss Their Clubs First Champions League Match Of The Season

Ahead of the upcoming 2015/2016 UEFA Champions league season, Naij.com names those players who will be missing their club’s first match in the competition.

The Champions League starts on Tuesday September 2015 with the likes of Manchester City in action against Juventus and Manchester United facing Dutch champions PSV.

Other interesting ties are; Real Madrid vs Shakhtar Donetsk, Wolfsburg vs CSKA Moscow, Galatasaray vs Atletico Madrid, Sevilla vs Borussia Moenchenglach

On Monday September 14, Wayne Rooney was omitted from Man Utd’s squad to face PSV due to an hamstring injury whith Anthony Martial set to take his place in the team. The England and United captain missed Saturday’s win Liverpool and misses yet another match.

Wayne Rooney celebrates his 50th goal  for England

Juventus will definately miss the services of Sami Khedira, Kwadwo Asamoah and Claudio Marchisio who are nursing thigh, knee and ligament injuries respectively.

Barcelona’s transfer ban is finally coming back to haunt them and will miss in form defender Thomas Vermaelen and Dani Alves while Claudio Bravo will definitely be missed due to a calf injury. He will be replaced in goal by Ter Stegen.

Dani Alves faces an uncertain spell on the sidelines due to an abductor pain

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Arsenal always seem like an injury crisis club and it is no different this year as Tomas Rosicky, Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck set to miss the trip to Dinamo Zagreb for Wednesday’s cracker.

Jack Wilshere

Cross town rivals Chelsea are in a crisis themselves. The Pensioner’s poor start to be season could be arrested at Maccabi Tel Aviv on Wednesday but the club will not be able to count on Courtious, Oscar and Ramires.

Title rivals Manchester City might have continued their excellent start to the season thanks to Kelechi Iheanacho’s goal at the wekend but the club will not be able to call on Fabian Delph and Pablo Zabalate and face late fitness test to Gael Clichy, Fernando, Sergio Aguero, Fernando, David Silva, Raheem Sterling to determine if they can face Juventus at the Etihad.

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AS Roma will definitely miss the services of midfielder Miralem Pjanic and Kevin Strootman while Real Madrid might rue James Rodriguez absence but  Danilo who is injured will be replaced by Dani Carvajal.

Valencia of Spain will miss Nicolas Pareja, Daniel Carrico, Adil Rami, Beto and Diego Alves in goal while Bayern Munich whose 2014/2015 season unravelled due to injuries to key members of the first team squad will not be able to call on Mehdi Benatia and Arjen Robben while fellow Germans Schalke 04 cannot call on former Manchester City defender Matija Nastasic who is ruled out for six months.

Arjen Robben will miss the match at Olympiakos

 

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