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According to a Bild report, as captured by @iMiaSanMia, Arrey-Mbi is set to make his stay at Hannover 96 permanent after a successful loan spell for the 2. Bundesliga club last season. Arrey-Mbi made 14 starts and garnered 1,183 minutes over 15 games, per fbref.

Pellegrino Matarazzo on… …the match in Porto: “We’re looking ahead and have no time to go...

Since joining Union in the summer of 2022, the joint Dutch and Surinamese citizen has become a regular in the defence and immediately proved his worth in his first game in the iconic red and white. In the 6-1 win over Schalke 04 he showed both his composure and nose for goal when he headed in Morten Thorsby’s cross to make it 1-0.

Vietnamese influencers Tuyen Van Hoa and Phat Freestyle returned to Bremen for a second time since 2023, having been invited by SV Werder and Bremen’s Economic Development Agency (WFB). Over the course of four jam-packed days, the duo were able to take part in activities such as attending the Bundesliga home game against Leverkusen, and the Freimarkt. The visit was also supported by Schächter Sports, the agency that the Green-Whites carry out their internationalisation activities with.

“We always believed that it would be possible to turn the game around,” Throup said when asked about the game against BVB during Monday’s pre-DFB-Pokal press conference. Despite trailing early on in Saturday’s match, FCA were able to fight their way back to take the lead thanks to a brace from Alexis Claude-Maurice. It was FCA’s third home win of the season. “It obviously gives us confidence,” said Thorup, before mentioning that spirits within the team are high at the moment. This confidence will now hopefully help FCA come out on top of their second-round clash with FC Schalke 04. “We need to bring the same intensity and willingness to run hard, as well as winning our challenges, as we did against Dortmund. Only committing 90 to 95% effort won’t be enough,” he said. 

“Our focus is fully on Schalke,” said Thorup, praising the Royal Blues for their qualities as a team and warning that his side should by no means underestimate their second-division opponents. However, first and foremost, he’s focused on his team and is looking to take the momentum from the win against Dortmund with them into the coming week. 

SSC Napoli’s Victor Osimhen, Eintracht Frankfurt’s Randal Kolo Muani, Juventus’ Dušan Vlahović, and even Tottenham Hotspur’s Harry Kane have all been linked with potential moves to Bayern to be the club’s main striker, but only Kolo Muani and Vlahović remain as realistic targets — all of the others have effectively been ruled out.

It was not meant to be against “the biggest opponent on our journey together so far”, as head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo had described FC Porto prior to kick-off. TSG Hoffenheim were the better team in the first 45 minutes and registered more shots but did not get the reward in the form of the opening goal. Instead, the inevitable happened: Porto scored in stoppage time through Djalo following a free-kick (45+2) and thus paved the way for a home victory before the interval.

VfB host Bundesliga 2 side 1. FC Kaiserslautern at the MHP Arena in the DFB Cup second round on Tuesday evening (kick-off 20:45 CET).

SG Eintracht Frankfurt: Trapp – Kristensen (38. Ebimbe), Tuta, Koch, Theate – Knauff (81. Brown), Skhiri, Larsson, Götze (65. Chaibi) – Ekitiké (65. Matanovic), Marmoush (81. Amenda) 

FC St. Pauli and VfL Wolfsburg played out a hard-fought 0-0 draw. Both teams had chances but two excellent goalkeeping displays from Kamil Grabara and Nikola Vasilj kept the ball out of the net. In total, five of the nine fixtures on Bundesliga Matchday 8 ended in draws, the most there have been so far this season.