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Dejected, contemplative, disappointed. The full time whistle on Sunday afternoon left behind glum-looking Werdaners, both on the pitch and in the stands. The Green-Whites proved that they at the very least play on a level with a team in the Champions League places, but were missing a few small things for a share of the points. The 2-1 defeat to SC Freiburg wasn’t the first time that small details have cost the team points. “Frustration and concern are the wrong words for me at this point,” explained head coach Ole Werner speaking to the media.

Everything is set: Friday night, floodlight match at the Castroper Straße with at least 20,000 supporters on the terraces. VfL Bochum 1848 are hosts to Borussia Mönchengladbach tomorrow night at the Vonovia Ruhrstadion. Kick-off is at 20.30 CET. As usual, there was a press conference in the run-up to the match. This time, assistant coach Markus Gellhaus answered the journalists’ questions as head coach Thomas Reis has been tested positive for Covid-19 this Thursday morning and will therefore not be on the sideline against Gladbach.

Felix Uduokhai: “Leipzig possess so much pace and we struggled with that initially. We got stuck in more after the break and defended better too. We believed after getting one goal back and almost got an equaliser late on. Today was my first game back, I wanted to help the team right away. We have to win against Stuttgart now. We need to take the positives from today’s game and then get up for a great Friday night at a sold-out WWK Arena.”

Okay, this was a tough one. Inter Milan started hot but couldn’t sustain, and didn’t end up looking particularly good at all. While Nicolò Barella fired an early warning shot across Bayern Munich’s bow and Kristjan Asllani found the net on an offside goal, let’s go to the backline — where Stefan de Vrij led a back three’s valiant efforts to keep from getting totally overrun. Four blocks, three clearances…De Vrij is a quality player, didn’t have all his favored center-back partners around him, and it could have been a lot worse.

With five games remaining in the Bundesliga, Christian Streich’s side are in fourth place and more and more questions are being asked about where the team is aiming to be at the end of the season. “It will be a difficult away game for us,” said Matthias Ginter ahead of the game against Köln, who are relatively safe in mid table. “After full time we’ll have a clearer idea of where our season is going.”

Sandro Schwarz made two changes from the game against Leipzig. The team remained in a 5-3-2 formation, with Marco Richter replacing Jonjoe Kenny at right wing-back and Stevan Jovetić starting upfront for the first time since the end of October. Wilfried Kanga, who scored the winner in the reverse fixture, dropped to the bench. For the hosts, Marcin Kamiński started for the first time since the first day of the season, replacing Maya Yoshida at centre-back, while Simon Terodde came in upfront.

Head coach Marco Rose speaks to the media from the pre-match press conference ahead of Sunday’s trip to Leverkusen

1. FSV Mainz 05 will be kitted out by team sports specialists JAKO for the 2023/24 season. The club have agreed to an early end to their partnership with current outfitter Kappa, which was originally set to run until the end of June 2025. The agreement will now end on 30th June 2023. The Italian sportswear manufacturer had been the official kit supplier of Mainz 05 since 2020.

Sebastian Hoeness discussed the home match against Borussia Mönchengladbach this Saturday, where his team are aiming to take another important step towards survival in front of a full house.

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