Augsburg goalkeeper Andreas Luthe played on despite biting off part of his tongue against Bayer Leverkusen, having already started the game with a broken finger.
The Bundesliga side were defeated 1-0 by a 75th minute Lucas Alario goal, but Luthe had persevered in pain between the posts after he took a knee to the face from Leverkusen forward Kevin Volland on the half-hour mark.
Speaking to Sky after the game he said: "The neck is a bit stiff and part of my tongue is gone. But that's no problem."
Luthe has already built a reputation for playing through pain as he revealed in the summer that he has to wear a special glove because an old hand injury refuses to heal.
"The little finger is now so broken that I cannot leave it alone," he told Sport Bild during Augsburg's pre-season training tour in South Tyrol, Italy. "That's why I always tape it to the ring finger. "
"I cannot imagine it any other way around now."
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