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While Marco Friedl and Romano Schmid take to the pitch with Austria in the Nations League on Thursday, one of their club teammates will have to watch from the sofa. For the first time in over half a year, Marco Grüll did not receive a call-up to the Austria national squad from head coach Ralf Rangnick. “Obviously, I wanted to get picked,” told the 26-year-old. “However, if I continue to give it my all and produce my best showing then I am sure I’ll be selected once again.”

Dimitris Giannoulis played the full 90 minutes at the home of English football and defended well against Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka. Striker Evangelos Pavlidis scored the winner in the fourth minute of second-half injury time. Before kick-off, there was a minute of silence in memory of George Baldock, who most recently played for Panathinaikos and passed away this week at the age of 31.

The substitutes: Philipp, Kadeřábek, Drexler, Tohumcu, Jurásek, Bülter, Tabaković, Bruun Larsen and Chaves.

Dortmund are yet to drop a point so far at home, and recently turned a 0-2 deficit against VfL Bochum into a remarkable 4-2 victory. On the road, however, things have looked a little different, with them recording only a goalless draw in Bremen and suffering the huge 5-1 defeat the hands of last season’s runners-up, Stuttgart.

He was the hero of the game in Sinisheim, and yet six days later it is hard to put a smile on his face. Jens Stage would have liked to have rounded off a special week and turned a solid start for SV Werder into a strong one with a positive result this weekend. “To be sitting here with zero points,” explained Stage during the Ledvance VIP-Talk in conversation with stadium announcer Arnd Zeigler after the 1-0 defeat to SC Freiburg, “doesn’t feel good.”

There have been a handful of names linked to fill the vacancy at Bayern, including Max Eberl, Markus Krösche, Michael Reschke, and Stefan Reuter, but all of those candidates have all been ruled out. Not to mention, Bayern’s technical director Marco Neppe, who could be leaving for a role at Tottenham Hotspur this summer.

It was a passage of play with symbolic character. Adam Hložek received the ball on the left flank, saw the space and darted into it. He played a one-two with Andrej Kramarić, struck a powerful, low finish – and then celebrated scoring his second goal of the evening. The striker, who won the double with Bayer 04 Leverkusen last summer and made the move to TSG Hoffenheim prior to this season, had already scored his first goal against Bremen on Sunday and now had double cause for celebration. In short, he is proving his extraordinary talent.

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The VfB Stuttgart attacker has been nominated by the DFL for the September “Rookie of the Month” award. Voting is open until Thursday.

Borussia Dortmund: Kobel – Yan Couto, Anton, Schlotterbeck, Ryerson (86. Bensebaini) – Can (67. Sabitzer), Groß (63. Nmecha) – Gittens (63. Malen), Brandt, Beier – Guirassy