Andrej, things have been going well recently and the team has managed to dig its way out of the bottom-reaches of the table. What do you think the reasons for that are?

On Friday evening (20:30 CEST), The Zerofivers will travel to the Volkswagen Arena to face VfL Wolfsburg as the season reaches its climax. Mainz go into the game safe in the knowledge that their Bundesliga status for the 2022/23 season is guarenteed, which is a luxury that Friday’s oponnents have not yet earned. The Wolves are going into the contest off the back of a 6-1 drubbing to Borussia Dortund and will be looking to tighten up when Svensson’s side come to town, something which the boss is fully aware of: “After their last game against Dortmund we are expecting a very tough match.” Around 300 Zerofivers are expected to make the trip to Lower-Saxony.

Review — The last match:

When the whistle blows for kick-off at the Volkswagen Arena on Sunday evening (19:30 CEST), two of the longest-running teams in the Bundesliga face off in the concluding fixture of Matchday 28. While VfL are now in their 26th consecutive season in the top flight, Bayer 04 Leverkusen have been a constant in the league since promotion in 1979.

“I have to pay the lads a huge compliment. They deserved to make it into the final tournament. Hajduk were not the better team, but they were the luckier team. We have now reached the quarter-finals for the second time in a row, and it cannot be overstated how impressive that is,” said Mike Tullberg in summary, as he comforted his players, Filippo Mane in particular. Mane was the ninth Dortmund penalty-taker and his penalty was saved by Split’s goalkeeper Buljan, after Farouk Cisse, Julian Rijkhoff, Michel Ludwig, Göktan Gürpüz, Paris Brunner, Abdoulaye Kamara, Samuel Bamba and Nnamdi Collins had all calmly scored from the spot.

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SV Werder Bremen’s first friendly game in preparation for the 2023/24 season has been determined. Thanks to the support of Werder’s long-time partner WIESENHOF, the Green-Whites will face VfB Oldenburg at the Hössensportzentrum on Sunday 16th July 2023 to mark the 900th anniversary of Weserstede. The match will kick off at 15:00 CEST.

The break is over, the Bundesliga is back! VfL head to the Olympiastadion in Berlin on Friday. Let’s LOOK AHEAD to our game against Hertha BSC:

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