The 20-year-old striker underwent surgery on Tuesday after fracturing a metatarsal in the Under-21s’ victory in Fulda.

A week ago, Union’s team reached the final four with a successful Bundesliga campaign. A 5-2 win at Turbine Potsdam and away win in Wolfsburg enabled the women’s side to jump into second, going through to face Eintracht Frankfurt. This is the first time in Union’s history that a youth team has reached the German championship finals.

The Wolves rounded off Bundesliga Matchday 24 on Sunday evening with a 1-1 draw against Union Berlin at the Volkswagen Arena. VfL substitute Patrick Wimmer netted a deserved equaliser for the hosts in the 84th minute, after Josip Juranovic had given Union the lead from the penalty spot (72’).

Defeats to Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, both over the last two weekends, has seen Liverpool take up ninth position in the standings, eight points adrift of fourth-placed Newcastle United and 15 points behind leaders Arsenal.

Personnel: Dortmund coach Jan Zimmermann made five changes to his starting line-up from the 1-0 defeat in Freiburg nine days earlier, with Marco Pasalic, Falko Michel, Franz Pfanne and Prince Aning dropping to the bench, while Pharell Collins had captained the BVB U19s the day before, leading them to the West German Championship, so couldn’t make this game for the U23s. In their place, Tom Rothe, Niklas Dams, Abdoulaye Kamara and Ole Pohlmann stepped into the first eleven, along with Thomas Meunier, who was starting his first competitive match for the Black and Yellows since suffering a torn muscle in BVB’s 2-0 Bundesliga loss at Union Berlin on 16 October.

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Steffen Baumgart said: “In the past year, we made a clear statement: if things are working out for all parties involved, the contract will be extended for a further year. Anything else was out of the question. Why? Simply because it’s fun here, to work with my team and for FC. You can see that every day. We always spoke about a journey, and I am convinced that it is not yet over. We can still achieve a lot here.”

So far this season, Kimmich has only missed one match for Bayern, which was their 5-0 win over Viktoria Plzen in the UEFA Champions League group stage. For that match, he was out with a coronavirus infection, but returned for the season’s first installment of der Klassiker against Borussia Dortmund just four days later, which ended in a 2-2 draw. Adding to that, aligned with the idea that Kimmich is a future captain for both Bayern and Die Mannschaft, he’s already worn the armband a total of seven times this season, partially due to the absence of both Thomas Muller and Manual Neuer.

After Stuttgart comes Köln: Hertha picked up crucial points against the Swabians and now the focus shifts to the upcoming task in the Rhineland. “We have given ourselves a chance through commitment and hard work. That doesn’t mean that we’re overjoyed, however, but rather still very much focused. We all feel that we are on the right path, and we have to continue on it,” stressed Pál Dárdai after his first win since returning to coach the side. “Teams are able to win every game at the end of the season, and that’s why we’ll continue to fight as long as it’s possible,” he said, also adding ahead of the match on Friday (12/5, 20:30 CEST) against Köln that “they have a good coach, a good team and a good atmosphere there, but we are also playing well. Our boys are fresh and fully fit, especially mentally.” Here is everything the head coach had to say at the press conference on…