Overview
- Bayer Leverkusen announced Tuesday that the Burkina Faso defender returned from the Africa Cup with a muscle injury.
- The club expects a recovery time of roughly two to three weeks with no detailed timeline beyond that window.
- Leverkusen's schedule includes Champions League games at Olympiakos on January 20 and against Villarreal on January 28.
- A DFB-Pokal quarter-final against FC St. Pauli in early February adds to the short-term defensive challenge.
- Tapsoba, 26, was eliminated with Burkina Faso in the round of 16 by Ivory Coast, after which coach Kasper Hjulmand granted him leave.