… the transfer coming about at short notice: “The first contact came last week and we met on Wednesday. We got along straight away and came to an agreement relatively quickly.”

“Bayern have too many good players. It’s the same with (Noussair) Mazraoui or (Matthijs) De Ligt. Bayern has a lot of national players in the team and is generally a great club,” Pimenta told Sport1. “(It is) frustrating for professionals when they are not allowed to play. It’s a big change after joining Bayern, but I’m sure their time will come soon because they are top players.”

Trio return

This run of wins has catapulted the Blue-Whites from 18th place out of the relegation zone. SC will now be taking on the fifteenth-placed team in the Bundesliga on matchday 21, and Streich expects “a big fight” ahead of them – with the DFB-Pokal quarter-final at the beginning of March 2022 still fresh in the memory. “There will be lots of long balls from their goalkeeper Manuel Riemann towards Philipp Hofmann, one of the best headers of the ball in the Bundesliga. Then there will be second balls and it is about being assertive here.”

Sandro Schwarz made one change to the team that started the home game against Leverkusen last weekend, with Jean-Paul Böetius starting in the place of Suat Serdar, who missed out through illness. Davie Selke also missed out through illness, while the game came too early for Tjark Ernst, who had been working individually from the start of the week. As a result, Robert Kwasigroch was on the Hertha bench for the first time this season. Stevan Jovetić returned to the squad after a two game absence.

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On Friday evening (20:30 CEST), 1. FSV Mainz 05 welcome Hertha Berlin to the MEWA ARENA as matchday 7 of the Bundesliga gets underway. Five points currently separate Mainz, who are in sixth, from Hertha, who are 15th. Despite their most recent loss to Hoffenheim, the Zerofivers still boast an impressive start to the season, while the Berliners are in good form of their own. Hertha, under the stewardship of former Mainz player and coach Sandro Schwarz, have taken four points from the last two games, and have had a mixed start to the season, with just one point from their first four matches and being knocked out of the Pokal by Braunschweig. “They’re completely another team from the end of last season, you can already see that in their attacking play. They’ve got a lot of pace and individual quality. With Sandro as their coach and the squad they’ve got, you can see a big difference, but at the same time a very good structure in all of their games,” was the praise given by Bo Svensson on the Berlin side’s development at a press conference on Thursday.

VfB Stuttgart fell to a 3-1 defeat away to Borussia Mönchengladbach on Matchday 13.

Goals: 1-0 (Jordan, 50). 2-0 (Becker, 77)