Bayer Leverkusen's Kevin Kampl to miss rest of 2016 with foot injury

Berlin: Bayer Leverkusen will be without Kevin Kampl for Wednesday’s Champions League match at home to Monaco, and the rest of 2016, after the Slovenia international suffered a foot injury. [caption id=“attachment_3142618” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of Kevin Kampl. Reuters[/caption] The 26-year-old defensive midfielder has been ever present for Leverkusen this season, missing just one of their 13 league games, but is sidelined for up to eight weeks after damaging a bone in his right foot in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Freiburg. He has aggravated an old injury he picked up having scored Leverkusen’s winner in their 1-0 victory at Tottenham Hotspur five weeks ago. Kampl will miss Wednesday’s match at the BayArena with both teams in the last 16 of the Champions League and Monaco confirmed as Group E winners as Spurs miss out. “It’s the same place I’d been injured in the match at Tottenham,” Kampl, who was kicked on the outside of his right foot at Freiburg, told magazine Kicker. “It happened five minutes before the end and I couldn’t tread on it anymore. “I definitely won’t play on it again this year. It’s bitter news.” Against Monaco, Leverkusen are also without Swiss striker Admir Mehmedi, who has torn an adductor, and Germany forward Kevin Volland, who has a tendon injury. Kampl now aims to be fit for Leverkusen’s first league match of 2017 at home to Hertha Berlin on January 22 when the Bundesliga resumes after the winter break with Bayer currently ninth in Germany’s top flight.