Steffen'spress conference ahead of #FCUBMG starts at 14:00. Watch...
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Oct 15, 2025
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Steffen'spress conference ahead of #FCUBMG starts at 14:00. Watch it LIVE, or just follow along here for the usual updates (of a sort).
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Here we go, Unioner. Steffen is all in black, but that's just the adopted Berliner in him. We must, however, start with the bad news: Josip Juranovic, Livan Burcu, Andrik Markgraf and Robert Skov will be missing on Friday
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Asked about Andras and if he is okay following Cristiano Ronaldo's attempts to take him out of contention, Steffen says that he is fine. As are all our international travellers.
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Steffen says that Gladbach are strong at set-pieces, thy have similar abilites to his own side. On the behind the scenes, he says that they will have a clear plan. They are strong, but we want to win, and to do better than in the last home game, he says
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He talks not of changing his football, but of improving it. He expects a game between pretty equal sides, though he leaves a question mark as to whether they'll play a back three or four.
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If you really watch the recent games back, you'll see we did have chances, he says. Asked about Ilic's wait for a goal he says he doesn't care who scores, it doesnt matter. As ever he is full of praise for our striker.
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He then expands on developing Union's threat at set-pieces, but it's normal to do this, he says. Aljoscha kemlein is one of the best professionals he's worked with, he's trainedall week and will be available.
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They didn't have a free week, he is careful to say before listing the training they had to do at home. The fitness trainer, however, had a week off and he was on the beach (though presumably he was running on it.
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With an attempt to draw a Big Lebowski quote from him, disappointingly failed, he says that he has no golf handicap, he just tries to get the ball moving forwards. He likes it though.
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On Tom Rothe, and a possible overloading of the youngster, he smiles. We are happy to have players called up for their country. There is no disadvantage to it.
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And that's that. Christian Arbeit rounds things off by reminding us that the women's team are of course also at home on Sunday against Leipzig. It's a big weekend, Unioner. We'll, of course, see you for all of it. Eisern!
