There are three changes to the matchday squad, which is down from 19 players to 18 this week. Fin Bartels (stomach bug) and Franco Di Santo (thigh) have been passed fit...
There are three changes to the matchday squad, which is down from 19 players to 18 this week. Fin Bartels (stomach bug) and Franco Di Santo (thigh) have been passed fit...
+++ There are three changes to the matchday squad, which is down from 19 players to 18 this week. Fin Bartels (stomach bug) and Franco Di Santo (thigh) have been passed fit in time for the Augsburg game and so keep their places. Philipp Bargfrede and Alejandro Gálvez are unavailable through injury though. Instead, Cedric Makiadi is back on board after returning from the Africa Cup of Nations as a bronze-medal winner and is part of the Green-Whites' matchday squad for the first time in 2015. Izet Hajrovic is the other player called into the squad, with Maximilian Eggestein missing out this time.
Here's the full 18-man squad tasked with collecting a fifth successive win:
Raphael Wolf, Koen Casteels - Santiago Garcia, Luca Caldirola, Assani Lukimya, Cedric Makiadi, Jannik Vestergaard, Clemens Fritz, Franco Di Santo, Levin Öztunali, Izet Hajrovic, Zlatko Junuzovic, Felix Kroos, Levent Aycicek, Fin Bartels, Theodor Gebre Selassie, Davie Selke and Janek Sternberg. +++

+++ Skripnik relaxed about the hype: Viktor Skripnik has long been a star of the digital world. Since he took charge, there has been lots of talk surrounding the Werder coach on Facebook, Twitter & Co, not to mention many funny and creative photo collages and comparisons. The Ukrainian is relaxed about the hype though: "Of course, it's nice, but I'm intrigued to see what gets written when we've lost two or three games," said Skripnik, who also doesn't want to hide away when things go wrong.
