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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.

Oliver Baumann: “It’s a good feeling to have had a game like that. We were very...

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 

SV Werder Bremen, together with Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV), Common Goal and the Ha Giang Department of Education helped organise the “Football and Goal Master Trainer Training” workshop in Ha Giang, Vietnam from September 23rd to 27th. The workshop was aimed at providing 18 female teachers from various provinces with the knowledge to become key life skills trainers for FFAV’s nationwide development.

SC Sand: Baum – Klotz, Zuniga, Landmann, Griß – Kimmig, Bantle (46. Fischer) – Kreil, Takizawa (84. Way), Homann – Bailey-Gayle (63. Matuschewski) 

Keven Schlotterbeck: “We had a really good week of training behind us, and we showed that over large periods today. It was a really good performance, especially in comparison to the last few weeks. The main task was keeping a clean sheet at the back, which we unfortunately didn’t completely manage to do, but it was extremely important to get three points here. We are very happy about that. Despite this, we still need a bit more stability because we also want to finally keep a clean sheet.”