Since the beginning of October, Ellyes Skhiri has been missing from 1st FC Köln The Tunisian is working on his comeback after his injury in training. FC coach Steffen Baumgart did not yet want to predict when this will take place.
Steffen Baumgart appeals for patience. He attaches positive significance to the fact that midfielder Ellyes Skhiri trained with the ball for the first time since breaking his shin bone last Thursday in the shadow of carnival training. “The healing process must be completed. A fracture is a fracture. And until it heals, we have to be patient. “
Mainz or Mönchengladbach? – Skhiri gets time to recover
The Tunisian has been missing since the beginning of October after injuring himself in an international match for his home country. He described the mishap as “not a big injury” in the episode of the documentary “24/7 FC”, but also says there: “I need time to recover.” That’s what he’s getting. He will almost certainly miss the game in Mainz. In the training week ahead of the FC, he should now gradually increase the workload, no pressure will be exerted. Baumgart says he cannot predict whether he will be able to play against Mainz or not until a week later against Mönchengladbach, “especially since he has to work his way back into training. I don’t think it will take that long, though.”
Before his injury, the lanky perpetual runner – who sometimes even gets on his spinning bike during the half-time break to keep moving – was the defensive director of the “Geißböcke “, was once again the fastest player in the league and scored three goals in the championship and one in the DFB Cup. An absolute performer, whose break the Cologne team nevertheless bridged in a largely orderly manner. In the cup, they won 2:0 in Stuttgart, and from four league games, FC only picked up two points, but played against the two top teams from Leverkusen (2:2) and Dortmund (0:2) as well as the absolute fear opponents Hoffenheim (0:5) and Union Berlin (2:2).
