If VfB Stuttgart seals their return to the first Bundesliga in the game against Darmstadt 98 on Sunday, there could be one or two changes in the starting eleven. One is already certain.
Stuttgart – Pellegrino Matarazzo would know even without a degree in mathematics that arithmetic games are no longer necessary. VfB have three points and eleven goals in front of 1. FC Heidenheim – so humanely, the promotion is sealed even before the last game against Darmstadt 98 (Sunday, 3:30 p.m. / live ticker). “It is 3-0 in stoppage time, so to speak, we still have to bring the game to the finish,” said the VfB coach.
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The comfortable starting situation gives Matarazzo the opportunity, on the one hand, to honor Mario Gomez’s achievements with a last starting eleven and to give the rest of the team the order to “feed him in the pits”. On the other hand, other players who have recently been neglected could also be rewarded for good training performances: “We want to bring a powerful team on the pitch again this time – but there may well be one or the other change.”
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The party can then start from around 5.20 p.m. – forcibly without fans, which the coach also regrets: “We all had different images in mind when the trip started.” But the main thing is that the destination of the trip is (almost ) reached.
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