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“Our first goal has been achieved, and now comes the second. It’s important to start the season off strong,” Thorup said during the pre-match press conference, referring to FCA’s 4-1 win against Viktoria Berlin in the first round of the DFB-Pokal. “We kept trying to control the game, which we managed to do. In the end, we deservedly won. If we manage to keep playing like that in the league, then that would be ideal.” 

As must be clear by now, this is not a standard issue of Mannschaft Planen where I laser in on one problem with the squad and try to give multiple options to fix it. This will be a two-part series in which I lay out a set of solutions to all of the squad’s problems that are congruent with each other and showcase a system the selected and available personnel would excel in.

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It is precisely the same in reverse. I lost count of the number of familiar-looking, smiling stewards and press box workers I came across and reflexively with a big smile, uttered words like “ah, you’re back” or “was it only yesterday we were last here?” illustrating the joyful shared experience of an exhilarating 2023-24 season under the Bayer-Kreuz.

After getting the 2024/25 season off to a winning start against Energie Cottbus in the DFB-Pokal, SV Werder Bremen are now hoping to also start their Bundesliga campaign off on the right foot. Head coach Ole Werner faced the media ahead of his side’s opening Bundesliga fixture away at FC Augsburg on Saturday, 24th August (15:30 CEST). 

Joshua Kimmich is the player who takes most of the corners and free kicks and the 28-year-old has begun to feel the heat of those critics. However, manager Thomas Tuchel said that there is no issue and also that Kimmich will continue to be the player responsible for those kicks.

‘Serhatinho’ transferred to TSG from FC Schalke 04 last year, and as a leading player played a decisive role in a strong second half of the season, in which TSG finished among the top five teams in the South-East division. This was followed by successful qualification in the playoffs for the Virtual Bundesliga Club Championship in Cologne, which was the second-best national result for TSG eSPORTS. Individually, ‘Serhatinho’ reached the quarter-finals of the VBL Grand Final. In November 2023, he qualified for the FC Pro Open Global Qualifier in London, meaning he was among the best 64 EA FC players in the world at the time. In June he received his first nomination for a training course for the German National eTeam.

The real Meisterschale was over at Dortmund, but no matter.