Wearing thick gloves and hats, the Borussia Mönchengladbach pros completed their first training session after the World Cup break and started preparing for the second series in the Bundesliga.
Coach Daniel Farke was able to welcome two players who had previously been injured for a long time in Florian Neuhaus and Hannes Wolf at the 90-minute session. The recently paused Alassane Plea and goalkeeper Tobias Sippel were there. Wolf has already completed a week of training with the U23s after suffering a shoulder injury, and Neuhaus will only gradually be introduced to team training after tearing his cruciate ligament.
Marcus Thuram, who is with France in the semi-finals of the soccer World Cup, and five other World Cup drivers were still missing.
“I think it was a good decision to go into the break right after the last Bundesliga game against Dortmund and now have five and a half weeks of preparation for the second half of the season with the other 19 games,” said Farke. The return of those who played at the World Cup Players will be individually designed The first Bundesliga game of the new year will take place on January 22 against Bayer Leverkusen.