On Wednesday evening, Julian Nagelsmann had to watch from a hotel room in Lisbon as his team beat Benfica 4-0 at the Estádio da Luz.

It is now clear why the coach of FC Bayern Munich had flu symptoms before the third round of the Champions League match.

Christopher Meltzer

Sports correspondent in Munich.

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He has tested positive for Covid-19 - "despite complete vaccination protection", as his association communicated on Thursday morning in a short message on its own website.

There it also says that Nagelsmann will fly to Munich "separated from the team with an ambulance pilot" and will immediately go into "domestic isolation".

It is uncertain when Nagelsmann, 34 years old, will be released from home quarantine.

On the website of the City of Munich in the Corona section under the heading “Regulations for fully vaccinated people”, it says that a person who has tested positive with a PCR test “usually initially has to remain in isolation for five days”.

This can then be reversed with a negative PCR test - under one condition: You must have been symptom-free during this time. That probably doesn't apply to Nagelsmann. The coach will definitely miss the Bundesliga home game against Hoffenheim next Saturday (3:30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky). And probably also the away games against Borussia Mönchengladbach (October 27, DFB-Pokal) and Union Berlin (October 30, Bundesliga).

And the rest of the team?

When asked by the FAZ, a spokesman for FC Bayern said that Nagelsmann's positive test initially had no consequences for players and coaches who had traveled with him to Lisbon.

In Munich, the assistant coaches Dino Toppmöller and Xaver Zembrod will take over the preparation for the duel against Hoffenheim with the video analyst Benjamin Glück.

Whereby one can assume that Nagelsmann will also intervene.

He did the same on Wednesday.

From his hotel room he ordered a change over the radio, which was one of the decisive factors for the outcome of the game.

In the 66th minute, it was still 0-0, the winger Serge Gnabry came on for the full-back Benjamin Pavard.

Only 18 minutes later, Munich led 4-0.

And before the first and the second goal, Gnabry had his feet in the game.