Two further interesting games will take place in Italy, following previous friendlies against Besiktas, PSV Eindhoven and Ajax. On Saturday, 5th August (20:30 CEST), Enrico Maaßen’s side will play Serie A side US Salernitana 1919 at the Stadio Arechi in Salerno. The highlight of the trip is a day later on Sunday, 6th August, (18:30 CEST) against current Serie A winners SSC Napoli. The game will be played at the Stadio Teofilo Patini in Castel di Sangro.

Twitter account @iMiaSanMia captured the 33-year-old’s comments in a presser: “Everyone can assess that for themselves. We won the first leg 1-0, I think that’s an advantage. But a one-goal deficit can always be caught up in football. I understand his opinion, he has a lot of self-confidence.”

Directly after his appointment as managing director, Alexander Rosen announced his intention to share the responsibility for the sporting department among several people. “TSG Hoffenheim has operated with a streamlined organisation for years. But the challenges to be overcome both internally and externally have grown significantly and continuously during this time. We won’t inflate our structure in the future but we will adapt it moderately to the demands placed upon a modern and ambitious professional club,” explained Alexander Rosen, who is carrying a large proportion of the responsibilities he already held as the director of football over into his new role. “There are of course more responsibilities as a managing director. I’m looking forward to those, but they make it even more necessary for the sporting management to be broadened,” explained the 44-year-old manager.

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“We would have liked to report to the members face to face about this exceptionally successful year in terms of sport. Unfortunately, this is not possible for the second time in a row. Due to the still unforeseeable development of the pandemic and the measures to combat it, we have decided against a postponement and will now prepare for the digital implementation of the general meeting,” said Dirk Zinger, 1. FC Union Berlin club president.

VfL Wolfsburg and Felix Lange have received unfortunate news after the 19-year-old sustained a serious injury to his left ankle in the Wolves’ friendly against SC Freiburg in the Austrian town of Zams on Saturday. He is now expected to be on the sidelines for several months.

“I thought it was a good save,” smiled Blues boss Potter on Saturday. “You need your goalkeeper, sometimes, to get you the points.

Edin Terzic on the game and top spot in the table:
We’re satisfied with the performance and with the result too. But it’s only a step that we’ve taken. Every player wanted to show that the way we performed in the second half in Stuttgart last week did not meet our standards and was also not what we deserve when you see what we have invested over the course of the season to date. We’re very satisfied with the game today, but we’re still not happy and we still have a lot of work ahead of us.

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Even if Oliver Burke still hasn’t spent any time in the Munros in his home country Scotland, he has enjoyed spending time in the mountains in Zillertal. This is the place where his time with SV Werder Bremen began, and the place where he would like to make a fresh start at the club. After his loan spell at Millwall, the 27-year-old is back in green and white and wants to prove himself to Ole Werner’s coaching staff. “I want to work as hard as possible in pre-season,” said Burke. “I want to be an option for the coaching staff.”