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Five changes were made for this fixture against HSV, of which one had already been announced by Schuster. Florian Müller started in between the sticks: “Flo has earned this start,” explained Schuster. Elsewhere, Maximilian Philipp came in to make his first competitive appearance this season and replaced Ritsu Doan (ill). Matthias Ginter, Maximilian Eggestein and Michael Gregoritsch were the other three changes to the team which started in Leipzig at the weekend.

Line-up Head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo made two changes to the starting XI that lost 2-0 away...

FCA head coach Jess Thorup made just the one expected change to the side that beat Dortmund 2-1 at home last time out, as Finn Dahmen replaced Nediljko Labrović in goal.

So it’s not final final? But looking pretty grim all the same. Sky’s Florian Plettenberg expanded on the situation with an update: Lucas Hernández is on holiday but Bayern Munich might have one last chance to sway the want-away defender. Here’s what the reports say:

Oliver Baumann: “We’re happy with the point after the way we played. There were good chances on both sides. We needed to show more precision in the first half. We had so many opportunities, but then couldn’t do anything in the final third. But there have been phases in the past when we would have lost a game like this. We still have steps to take, but the progress is good. These are important weeks in which we want to get points and win. Today’s game gives us courage, but we also know what steps we still have to take.”

A much-changed VfB side beat second-tier outfit 1. FC Kaiserslautern 2-1 in the second round of the DFB Cup.

The Wolves are in the last 16 of the DFB Cup! Jonas Wind scored the only goal of the game in extra time against Borussia Dortmund (117’) to book the Green-and-Whites’ place in the next round.

Keven Schlotterbeck: “We played well, even really well in the first half. In the second, Schalke improved and pushed us back. Our main aim was to get through to the next round and we’ve managed that. We could even have wrapped up the game earlier, but we weren’t clinical enough on the counter. We still won 3-0 though. We want to keep this going and round out the perfect week against Wolfsburg.”

Bayern Munich’s season is over and now we are left to debate what went right, what went wrong, and how everyone ended up in this place.

This time he will be in the dugout for the sell-out second-round tie, which sees the fifth-placed sides in the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga go head-to-head. “It doesn’t matter who we’re up against; whether we’re away to the side sitting second in the Bundesliga or playing at home against a second-division side, we need to give 100 percent and push ourselves to our limits,” said Schuster, who considers HSV’s squad of “top-flight calibre”.