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germany midfielder Ilkay Guendogan could be
sidelined with a thigh muscle injury when ailing Borussia Dortmund
start the second half of the Bundesliga season Saturday at Bayer
Leverkusen.
Guendogan sustained the injury in a tune-up match in Dusseldorf last
week and has not been in team training since.
Also uncertain, although back from Asian Cup and Africa Cup of
Nations duty are Shinji Kagawa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. But
Japan's kagawa resumed team training on Wednesday.
The 2011 and 2012 champions Dortmund are second bottom after a
terrible first half of the season. They now hope for improvement
starting with Saturday's game at third-placed Leverkusen.