The 37th season of the women's Bundesliga has been running perfectly for Bayern Munich so far, but a major hurdle awaits on Saturday, October 3rd at 5:55 PM CET with the match at Eintracht Frankfurt. Before that fixture, the Munich side received bad news.

Bayern Munich's women's football squad will have to manage without Jovana Damnjanovic and Vanessa Gilles for the time being. The club announced this on Friday.

Striker Damnjanovic suffered a muscle injury during the Champions League match at Benfica Lisbon (3:0) on Wednesday, while centre-back Gilles is also sidelined due to muscle problems.

As a result, the duo will not be available for the double winners in the top match at Eintracht Frankfurt as part of the Bundesliga. Frankfurt remains unbeaten after five matchdays, just like Bayern. They only dropped points in a 1-1 draw against Nuremberg on matchday 2. This makes the Hessian side currently Bayern's closest challengers.

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Bayern manager José Barcala said in a digital media round on Friday that it will be a really demanding and difficult match against a still unbeaten team. He noted that Frankfurt are in a very good phase and very aggressive in transitions, with the speed to punish mistakes.

Barcala particularly rated Frankfurt's attacking threat around Ereleta Memeti and Germany international Laura Freigang as dangerous. Freigang currently leads the scoring charts with four goals, tied with Wolfsburg's Ella Paddemits and Cora Zicai. Bayern's top scorer is Gilles, whom Barcala must now replace.

Besides Damnjanovic and Gilles, Barcala will also continue to be without Lena Oberdorf and Magdalena Eriksson.