Tyler Adams can’t catch a break. After missing months with injuries, the American 20-year-old (he turns 21 on Friday) had reestablished himself as a starter with RB Leipzig, which is in second place in the Bundesliga, one point behind Bayern Munich. But Leipzig announced on Thursday that Adams had suffered a calf injury that will keep him out of at least this weekend’s league game against Werder Bremen and next week’s Champions League clash at Tottenham.
That’s a shame, too, because Adams showed over 90 minutes in what he called “the biggest game of my career”—Sunday’s 0-0 tie at Bayern—that he can play at an extremely high level when healthy, filling a complex role for coach Julian Nagelsmann in a spot that isn’t even his natural No.