Why is davies out

The Canada national team will make their debut in the Gold Cup tournament tomorrow against Martinique for matchday 1 of Group B. Prior to the start of the campaign, The Reds announced that Alphonso Davies will not recover in time from his ankle injury and he will miss the tournament.

Davies suffered an ankle injury in training earlier this week and he tried to do everything he could to recover in time. Now the year-old will return to Bayern Munich to begin his recovery process and prepare for the start of the Bundesliga season. Concern around hamstring Davies came off the pitch during Sunday's win over Leverkusen with hamstring pain, according to Kicker. Impact Davies came off the pitch in the first half with soreness, but now is undergoing tests around a possible hamstring injury.

The defender is firmly questionable for Tuesday's trip to Benfica, and a hamstring injury could keep him out longer than that. More info should be available when Munich release their traveling squad for the trip to Benfica.

Subs off with game in hand Davies was subbed off in the first half of Sunday's match with Leverkusen for tactical reasons. Impact With Bayern up five goals early the left back was afforded an early substitution to pick up some rest after a busy period.

With Davies playing three games for Canada in nine days the rest is well earned and no injury is involved in the early exit. Fans, players, coach celebrate Davies goal Coach John Herdman paid tribute to Alphonso Davies' wonder-goal but reminded anyone listening that the spectacular strike represents a step Opinion ' Alphonso Davies' moment has arrived, and he is bringing Canadian soccer with him.

Enjoy it as long as you can His goal Wednesday night might be the one we eventually remember as the one that got his country into the World Cup. Panama scored in just the fif Keeps clean sheet in win Davies kept a clean sheet with two-of-two tackles won and created one chance during Tuesday's win over Barcelona.

Impact Davies has played the full 90 in all but one game for his club this season and kept up the pace with another solid performance. And [they've] known that we would never put them in what I would call the deepest waters that are going to make it unsafe for them. It's going to bode well for the coming matches in the October window as well.

El Salvador has shown a stingy defence to date, with Toronto FC centre back Eriq Zavaleta at the heart of the backline. They really do operate in a cohesive way," Herdman said.

And they're a real threat in transition. So we're going to have to be on our game [Wednesday] to get a result. Canada Soccer says the match is a sellout, which, if last week's game against Honduras is any indication, means there will be a loud and proud crowd on hand.

And we've go to go out there and apply pressure to get the maximum points, to push forward. A variety of newsletters you'll love, delivered straight to you. Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.

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