Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala has suffered a serious injury in his side’s Club World Cup quarter-final clash against European champions Paris Saint-Germain.
The German forward was chasing a forward ball when he had a sickening coming together with PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma which resulted in a horror ankle injury
Footage of the incident showed the Bayern star’s ankle get trapped in between the Italian stopper’s body and arms as he went for the ball.
The momentum of both players then carried them in opposite directions, with the forward’s ankle bearing the brunt of the collision, twisting at a sickening angle as a result.
It was a freak accident, with Donnarumma left in clear discomfort after realising what had happened.
The PSG goalkeeper dropped to his knees and was left in tears with his head in his hands as Bayern players swarmed to their team-mate’s assistance.
Harry Kane, Michael Olise, Kingsley Coman and Joshua Kimmich could hardly look and then turned away in agony.
Bayern and PSG players were quick to console Donnarumma, reassuring him that he need not feel guilty over the incident.
Musiala was quickly attended to by medics who treated the incident on the field and soon had him on a stretcher to be taken off the pitch.
He was then pictured on the stretcher making for an ambulance which was waiting at the stadium.
The incident was so unsettling that DAZN’s TV broadcast cut away from the scene to spare fans the horror of witnessing it.
Musiala was subsequently replaced at half-time by Serge Gnabry.
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