Eight days before the first game in the DFB Cup at the Lower Saxony amateur club Blau-Weiss Lohne, FC Augsburg botched their dress rehearsal with a 2:3 (1:1) defeat against Stade Rennes. In a game lasting 120 minutes, Ermedin Demirovic (22nd) and Maurice Malone (118th) scored the goals for Augsburg.
Benjamin Bourigeaud (5′) and Gaetan Laborde (55′) scored for the French, while Felix Uduokhai (58′) scored an own goal.
Even before the start of the game, it became known that FCA apparently wanted to sign striker Tony Martinez from FC Porto for a transfer fee of ten million euros. This was reported at least on Saturday by the Spanish daily sports newspaper “AS”, which appears in Madrid.
The 25-year-old attacker is considered overstaffed in attack by the Portuguese champions and is expected to leave the club by the end of the transfer window.
Martinez was also under contract with West Ham United in the Premier League but failed to establish himself at the London club.