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Sebastian Hoeneß addresses the media ahead of the away game against Dortmund. Around 8,000 VfB fans will be making the trip to the Ruhr district on Saturday.

Tickets are now on sale online at the Union Zeughaus.  Children up to the age of 12 are admitted free of charge, but require an appropriate free ticket**.

VfL Wolfsburg and Borussia Mönchengladbach faced off in the last 16 of the DFB Cup earlier this season. If you add the final of the 1994/95 competition as well as the teams’ 47 previous Bundesliga meetings, Sunday’s clash at the Volkswagen Arena (kick-off 17:30 CEST) will be the sides’ 50th encounter in all competitions. The Wolves may have lost those two cup games but they still have their noses in front in the head-to-head stakes, having registered 22 victories to Gladbach’s 17. They have scored 72 goals in those matches, conceding 67.

LEVERKUSEN, Germany — Thirteen points up on their nearest pursuers, Bayern Munich, with seven games to go, Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen face their “most important game of the season” on Saturday against … Union Berlin, 12th in the table.

Outlook: Both teams remain undefeated this season. Bayern have started with seven wins and two draws and are in second place with 23 points; two points and two places behind them are BVB (six wins, three draws), who would leapfrog the Bavarians with a win.

This is purely speculation, but it appeared that Davies pulled his left hamstring as he pulled up lame, while driving down the left side of the pitch. Davies immediately knew something was wrong, went down, and called to the bench to be replaced.

The stadium will also be full on Saturday, with the home section sold out. However, Matthias Ginter, Philipp Lienhart and Noah Weißhaupt will have to take their places in the stands due to injury. Ginter will not be able to play again for SC this season as he requires an operation on his Achilles tendon. 

13 goals and seven assists – Maximilian Beier is having a perfect season. Following a two-year loan spell at Hannover 96 in the second tier, the 21-year-old has established himself in the Bundesliga – and staked his claim for bigger things. Julian Nagelsmann gave the striker his first Germany call-up in March – a vindication of his development even if he did not play. Beier’s performances on the pitch are helping him off the pitch too: “I’m become more self-confident, I’ve noticed that recently in everyday life,” he declared. “I always used to be a very shy guy. For example, I always used to discuss with my girlfriend in the supermarket about which of us should ask the assistant where we’d find certain products.” That now stresses him out less – as do interviews, even if they are still not his favourite thing.

As part of its decades-long twinning arrangement with Ogaki, Stuttgart is once again taking part in a youth sports exchange programme with the Japanese city this year – and VfB are involved too.

Under head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo, Hoffenheim have started the new season with three wins from four games. After a narrow 2-1 home defeat to SC Freiburg on matchday one, TSG went on to pick up three points against 1. FC Heidenheim, VfL Wolfsburg and 1. FC Köln respectively, icluding, for the first time since their promotion to the Bundesliga 16 years ago, winning their first two away games of a season. Brandenburg-born Maximilian Beier, who is the top scorer in Matarazzo’s team with three goals and one assist, has played a big part in this.