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In the huddle prior to training, the FCA players were first informed that Raphael Framberger had already left the training camp to complete a loan-move to another team. The 27-year-old, who joined Augsburg as an eight-year-old in 2004, made a video message for the fans.

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side for Robert Lewandowski as he managed to reach three losses in the Champions League, meaning that he equaled his loss tally with Bayern in 38 games less with FC Barcelona.

Hertha put in a performance full of drive and determination and above all lots of belief in their own chances of getting a result against Bayern in an exciting game on Saturday afternoon.Despite going 3-0 down against the record champions, Hertha came back twice to get within touching distance of a point. “Huge congratulations to the team! We showed once again what you can do with hard work and spirit,” consoled Prince Boateng. The Hertha veteran suggested he and his teammates, “will definitely take the positives with us. The team is working hard and wants to win games – and those who work hard and believe in themselves will be rewarded!” herthabsc.com has the immediate reaction.

All participants on the trip are to meet at the PreZero Arena at 10:00 CET, where the coach will take them all the way to Freiburg, about 200 kilometres away. Kick-off in the match in the Europa-Park Stadion is at 15:30 CET (live updates on tsg-hoffenheim.de).

Head coach Marco Rose, goalkeeper Janis Blaswich and goal scorer Timo Werner on the victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach

Although the head coach would have wanted his side to have been more clinical and put the game to bed earlier, it was a satisfying afternoon in Aue in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. Mainz progressed into the the second round with relative ease, despite the fact that it can often be a tricky task in the early stages of the competition. Bo Svensson’s team won 3-0, with Dominik Kohr, Delano Burgzorg and Marcs Ingvartsen getting on the scoresheet. Mainz flexed their muscles in front of the 8,446 fans (around 500 of which were Zerofivers) and professionally dispatched Aue, who were relegated to the 3. Bundesliga last season.

 Hannover 96: Weinkauf (Stahl)– Celebi, Krajnc, Dehm (Kunze), Walbrecht (Neumann) – Stolze, Ondoua (Muroya), Leopold, Kerk (Foti), Teuchert (Beier) – Tresoldi

After four competitive games without a win, VfL Wolfsburg’s quest to return to winning ways doesn’t get much easier when they take on RB Leipzig on Saturday 18 February (kick-off 15:30 CET). At the press conference ahead of the game, head coach Niko Kovac answered questions on…

Goalscoring chances galore: In total, this lively encounter produced 36 shots at goal (23-13 in BVB’s favour) and 23 corners (12-11 to TSG). The last time the latter tally was reached in the Bundesliga was in November 2009, when there were 24 corners in a game between Wolfsburg and Nuremberg.

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