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Marco Rose spoke at the press conference ahead of the DFB-Pokal semi-final against SC Freiburg

Delano Burgzorg is staying at the Zerofivers! 1. FSV Mainz 05 have taken up their option to buy the Dutch striker, who signed on loan from Heracles Almelo in the winter. Burgzorg has put pen to paper on a deal running until 2025. So far, he has played in three competitive games, scoring one goal for the club. The forward has been out recently due to myocarditis following a Covid infection. He is expected back in rehabilitation training soon after several months out.

VfB Stuttgart lost their DFB Cup semi-final against Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2.

Ticket information for the first competitive match of the new season will follow in due course.

The German Football League (DFL) has confirmed the dates and kick-off times of Matchdays 17 to 19 in the Bundesliga. The Wolves’ opening game of 2023 – against SC Freiburg at the Volkswagen Arena on Matchday 16 (at 15:30 CET on 21 January) – had already been confirmed, but they can now start planning for their subsequent three encounters.

Second-top travel to second-bottom – but Terzic doesn’t want to read much into this going into the match: ”It will be a game, like always, that is defined by emotion and intensity and in which the league table doesn’t tell us anything. All that matters is the 90 minutes.” It should also be noted that the league table from the second half of the season thus far tells a different story: BVB are top, with six wins from six games, while Schalke are seventh, with two wins and four draws. The Gelsenkirchen club have kept five clean sheets in these matches. 

DFB hands Itakura one-game suspension Ko Itakura will miss the Foals’ upcoming Bundesliga match on Saturday...

SV Werder Bremen will face FC Schalke 04 on Saturday evening (29/4, 18:30 CEST), another meeting against a direct rival who are fighting to stay in the league. After the away win against Hertha BSC, three points at Schalke could be a decisive step towards securing Werder’s place in the league. Head coach Ole Werner will again be without Niclas Füllkrug, but Marvin Ducksch and Niklas Schmidt are back in the squad after illness.

VfL Bochum 1848 are the first sports organisation ever to submit a declaration according to the Sports Governance Codex

This resulted in a scrappy affair and a second half in which both teams put in a gritty valiant effort, each to attain their own goal: Bayern simply wanted to keep the scoreline in their favour, while Hertha wished to take the game away from Bayern towards the end, enabling the clock to run down only to turn the intensity up a notch in the dying minutes. Kind of like a mouse trap, inviting the animal to its doom by feeding it niblets of cheese.