“We have an exciting challenge ahead of us, but we’ve shown not only against Dortmund that we can do well against the top sides,” said Maaßen ahead of the game. The 38-year-old sees Gladbach, who lost 3-2 to Leverkusen last time out, as a “very good side with a lot of good individual players and the ability to interchange positions.” The plan is clear for Maaßen and his team. “We want to keep the points in Augsburg.”

The Nerazzurri have now officially beaten the Czech champions 4-0 with goals from Mkhitaryan, Dzeko, and Lukaku. So, Barcelona are back in the Europa League for a second season running. No, they cannot be dumped out of Europe altogether, as without a win in the group, there is no way for Plzen to overtake the Catalans’ tally of four points so far in the group stage.

“I watched a Hoffenheim game on the flight to Turin,” he said. Following a narrow 1-0 defeat to the Serie A side on Thursday evening, Streich commented, “I’m not thinking of the second leg at all yet. We have an important game against Hoffenheim on Sunday, and are in a good position in the league still.” 

Sandro Schwarz set up his side in a 4-3-3, instead of the 4-2-3-1 seen in the 5-0 friendly win against Ludwigsfelder FC. He also made two personnel changes, with Ivan Šunjić replacing Derry Scherhant in midfield, and Wilfried Kanga instead of Davie Selke up front.

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When it comes to an away trip to FC Augsburg, no one has more knowledge than the current sporting director. Not only did Martin Schmidt defeat Mainz as Augsburg’s head coach back in 2019, the Swiss is the only man to have led the Zerofivers to two away wins at the WWK-Arena. The first of these two wins came in March 2015, when FSV eased to a 2-0 win and the second came a year later, when Schmidt’s side ran away 3-1 winners. Since then, Mainz have had a tough time in Augsburg and have lost six times in the Bundesliga and once in the DFB-Pokal.

Juan Perea’s goal set up an exciting finish to the home match against Bayern Munich. It was the Colombian’s first in the Bundesliga

Attendance: 62,271 (Sold out)

VfL Wolfsburg have competed in the DFB Cup 114 times but this is the first time that they’ll face FC Carl Zeiss Jena. The facts and figures ahead of Niko Kovac’s competitive debut as Wolves coach: