The 1,300 travelling fans in the away end of the Olympiastadion thoroughly celebrated a result for which they had waited so patiently – an away victory. They raised their scarves high into the capital-city sky for their beloved Mainz team, who came over after the final whistle to thank the fans for their brilliant and loud support during the game, despite there being over 70,000 Hertha fans in attendance.

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.