Moussa Niakhaté has left 1. FSV Mainz 05 to sign for Nottingham Forest. Both clubs came to an agreement on the transfer on Wednesday. The French centre-back joined FSV in 2018 and went on to play 135 times in all competitions for the club, scoring nine goals. The clubs have agreed to not disclose the transfer fee.

VfB Stuttgart won 3-2 at VfL Bochum on Matchday 27.

To start the week, the players took part in a morning session with a focus on tactics. Urs Fischer tested his players out in both a back-three and back-four formation in a 11-v-11 format. The remaining players took part in a Football Tennis game on the smaller adjacent pitches.

Based on recent form and the 6-0 drubbing of Freiburg, Wolfsburg are the favourites going into this evening’s game away to Hertha, who slipped to 17th in the table at the weekend after a 3-1 defeat at Bochum. VfL have also had the upper hand in the recent meetings between the two teams.

Klopp even took the extremely early step of ruling Liverpool out of the title race a fortnight ago after they lost 3-2 to the Gunners.

After breaking the attendance record in the European League, the BVB women’s handballers are preparing for their next international highlight in March. Having contested the first leg a week earlier, Henk Groener’s team will then take on Neptunes de Nantes at the Westpress-Arena in Hamm at 16:00 CET on Sunday 26/03, with a place in the Final Four up for grabs. Tickets are available via BVB’s official ticket shop from Thursday. 

Preparations begin for Wolfsburg on the weekend The Foals began preparations of Sunday’s home game (15:30...

SV Werder Bremen travel to face Borussia Mönchengladbach on Friday night (17/03/2023, 20:30 CET). After suffering back-to-back defeats and having managed 30 points from 24 games, some have started drawing parallels between the club’s relegation campaign two seasons ago and now. It’s a narrative that head coach Ole Werner disputed during the pre-match press conference on Thursday. “We have put ourselves in a strong position going into the final third of the season. We’re looking at how we will be able to be successful in our upcoming games. Our full focus is on the challenge we have, which is to prepare ourselves for a tough opponent,” he said.

It’s derby time, just a short ride on the A40 Autobahn and heading for our neighbouring city. We will be travelling to Dortmund – the second to last away fixture of the season. The first game ended in a 1-1 draw. Here’s the LOOK AHEAD on Borussia Dortmund and #BVBBOC.

The first game in February coincided with the long-awaited return of fans in the stadium, with 7,600 spectators allowed into the WWK ARENA once again to watch the home game against Union Berlin.