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The 40-year-old will be making his Bundesliga debut along with assistant coaches Marcel Schmelzer and Sahin Kösecik. “We’ve trained at a high intensity and are well prepared,” assured Lehmann. His confidence has been boosted by the performances against strong opponents such as Hoffenheim (2-2) and Mainz 05 (3-1) in the pre-season friendlies, in which he felt that his boys “defended with a lot of heart and clearly improved their play off the ball”. Lehmann explained: “The counter-pressing worked, we gave away no chances from open play and created a lot of switch-play moments.” However, he feels there is room for improvement on the ball. “That was good for one half in each of the matches, it can and must be better,” said Lehmann.

Lewandowski, of course, was reportedly unhappy with his role in Nagelsmann’s attack and the two allegedly butted heads last season.

The coaching staff received this information on Thursday morning. “He wasn’t able to deal with high strain. We were already apprehensive and tried to deal with the issue conservatively at first,” SC’s head coach explained. The Austrian centre-back was in the squad for the game against Union Berlin last Saturday. “We’ll see what we can do now – whether we can still get someone in on loan, loan someone with an option to buy or just sign somebody. We’re discussing all options and we won’t react hastily or do anything rash.”

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At the end of a brutal first half (especially from the Vorwärts players), and with numerous missed chances on both sides, Union’s captain Ernst Standke came off worst in a one-on-one battle with the Vorwärts half-back Hoffmann, who scored from close range three minutes before the break to make it 1-0 for Vorwärts. He gave Union stopper Franz Müller had no chance.

The most dramatics, however, came at FC Augsburg, where Bayer Leverkusen maintained their lead over Bayern with a beautiful Alejandro Grimaldo-to-Exequiel Palacios goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Xabi Alonso’s squad is the only unbeaten team remaining in Europe’s Big Five leagues. Their current 90-point pace is just one off of Bayern’s 91-point Bundesliga record.

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