According to the neighborhood club, ten players were missing due to Corona. They are in isolation at home after testing positive for the virus. In addition, the long-term injured Christopher Avevor, Sebastian Ohlsson and Jannes Wieckhoff as well as the ailing Guido Burgstaller (muscle problems) and Eric Smith (calf) could not take part in training. Rico Benatelli, Simon Makienok and Luca Zander trained individually, so coach Timo Schultz was not available to a total of 17 professionals.
The top game at FC Schalke 04 is on Saturday evening (8.30 p.m., in the live center on NDR.de) for Hamburg.