1. FC Union Berlin came away from the Olympic Stadium with derby bragging rights for the third time in this campaign, defeating Hertha 4-1. Urs Fischer’s produced a dominant performance to follow up on the 2-0 league win in Köpenick and the 3-2 German Cup triumph on Hertha turf. Union peppered Hertha’s box and goalkeeper Marcel Lotka was in inspired form. He was beaten by a header from Genki Haraguchi before Timo Baumgartl put the ball past Frederik Rönnow to bring the score level at the start of the second half. Grischa Prömel headed Union in front a few minutes later while Sheraldo Becker wrapped up a terrific display with a great goal to kill the contest. Sven Michel came on as a substitute and scored his first goal for the club following his January transfer from Paderborn.

When the Wolves play host to TSG Hoffenheim in their penultimate home match of the season on Saturday 13 May (kick-off: 15.30 CEST), it will be a welcome return to a more conventional start time. Four of the Green-and-Whites’ last five matches have been played on a Sunday, but now they are getting back to the traditional Bundesliga kick-off time.

Sancho himself did well in the second half as Man United managed to remain in control of the game.

The first leg will take place away in Berlin on Easter Monday (11:00 CET), while the defending champions from Dortmund will host the second leg (11:00 CET). Hertha BSC won the Bundesliga North/Northeast with 41 points from 16 games, finishing ahead of Dynamo Dresden (38) and Hamburger SV (31). BVB completed an unbeaten Bundesliga West campaign, with 37 points from 15 games. Incidentally, the last time a Dortmund U19 side suffered a Bundesliga defeat dates back to 19 November 2019 (a 2-1 loss to Fortuna Düsseldorf).

For their first away fixture of the year VfL travel to Mainz. Facing them on Saturday, and also midweek for the DFB-Pokal, VfL will be no strangers to Mainz. Here’s this week’s LOOK AHEAD on FSV Mainz 05:

Jeffrey Gouweleeuw: “It was a terrible game today. The first half was particularly bad, you’ve no chance in the Bundesliga if you play like that. We’d like to have secured our Bundesliga status ourselves, but we were unable to do so. It’s a horrible feeling to be dependent on other teams and to nervously wait for those results to come in. But at the end of the day, we survived and that’s what counts!”

Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, and FC Barcelona have emerged as the clubs most likely to land Bayer Leverkusen ace Florian Wirtz.

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Mainz made it two home wins from two on Saturday afternoon as they defeated Augsburg 3-1 at the MEWA ARENA. Jae-Sung Lee gave the hosts the lead in the 20th minute before Karim Onisiwo made it two just a few minutes later (24’). Although the guests pulled one back shortly before half time courtesy of an Ermedin Demirovic penalty, FCA could do nothing to stop the brilliant Lee who secured his brace not long into the second half (51’). 22,000 fans were in attendance at the MEWA ARENA to watch the Carnival party unfold.

1. FC Union Berlin: Rönnow; Ryerson (Trimmel 84), Gießelmann (Oczipka 84), Jaeckel, Baumgartl, Knoche; Khedira, Prömel, Haraguchi (Schäfer 66); Awoniyi (Michel 80), Becker (Voglsammer 66)