Notwithstanding the busy schedule, it has been an eventful few days for Hertha. Marco Richter, however, is looking to the future after the defeat to Union at the weekend. “We have to put everything negative out of our minds and pick ourselves up again,” explained the number 23. Sandro Schwarz also made it clear that his side need to focus on the upcoming tasks as Hertha kicked off their training week on Tuesday afternoon: “We had a meeting about how we can deal with this situation. The simplest thing to do is to take care of things together out on the pitch and uphold the trust amongst ourselves,” said the head coach.

Additional buses will run to the PreZero Arena on Saturday. A shuttle service will take visitors from Sinsheim/Elsenz railway station to the stadium and back again. There will also be a shuttle service on various routes. For the return journey, buses will depart from the bus terminal (P9). More information on departure times and bus stops can be found here (SWEG) and here (Palatina Bus).

Head coach Marco Rose and players Benny Henrichs, Dani Olmo and Kevin Kampl speak to the media.

“You could see in the first training session that everyone was up for it. It is great to be back,” said Bo Svensson after the first training session on Tuesday evening. “We want to start shaping the team now. We want to get to know everyone, build a new dynamic and a new hierarchy,” explained the boss.

Union: Rönnow, Van Drongelen (Heintz 60), Doekhi (Jaeckel 45), Ryerson (Trimmel 60), Michel (Khedira 45), Schäfer (Voglsammer 45), Endo (Haraguchi 45), Puchacz (Gießelmann 60), Becker (Skarke 45), Knoche (Kemlein 77), Leweling (Siebatcheu 45)

Since Thursday evening, VfL Wolfsburg have been fine-tuning their preparations for the upcoming second half of the Bundesliga season in Almancil, Portugal. Mattias Svanberg, who has been at the club since July 2022, is naturally in the thick of the action at the Wolves’ Algarve training camp. In a wide-ranging interview, the 24-year-old Sweden international shares his thoughts on his first camp with the Green-and-Whites, the standout moments of his VfL career so far and his goals for the rest of the season.

The current record for goals scored in a Premier League season stands at 34 – an accolade shared between Alan Shearer and Andy Cole. With Haaland scoring at an average of 1.54 goals a game, that figure really doesn’t seem too far away.

“A dirty win is fitting for both the pitch and the result today,” said Ann-Katrin Lau in summary of the match. Coach Thomas Sulewski’s charges had a hard time settling into the game on the battered turf at the Wersestadion, the venue where Marco Reus and Kevin Großkreutz once started their professional careers. But the first real shot at goal found the net. Mandy Reinhardt nicely teed up Lau, who cut into the box from the right and fired a low effort into the far corner (21).

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There were several Werder players in action on international duty at the start of the week. Fabio Chiarodia and Italy secured qualification for the European U19 Championship on Tuesday afternoon (28/3). Mio Backhaus also played in the same competition for Germany, while Niclas Füllkrug was the final SVW player to feature on Tuesday night against Belgium. Ilia Gruev, Romano Schmid and Jiri Pavlenka all represented their nations in EURO 2024 qualifiers on Monday evening (27/3).