What happened. Montrell Culbreath and Robert Andrich both suffered injuries in Leverkusen's 2-1 pre-season win over Sevilla, ruling them out of the upcoming friendlies against Newcastle and Nottingham Forest.

Culbreath is ruled out of the Bundesliga opener against Elversberg.
Andrich avoided serious injury but will train individually in Germany.
Leverkusen won 3-1 vs Offenbach and 4-0 vs Genk recently.

Diagnoses are pending, but Leverkusen's squad will be lighter for the England trip.

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