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Berlin (dpa) - The next one, please!
Top games on a weekly basis are slowly becoming a habit for Union Berlin.
The surprise team of the Bundesliga continues to deliberately stick to understatement.
"Every game is a big challenge for us," said coach Urs Fischer.
Bayer Leverkusen will come to the An der Alten Försterei stadium as the next Champions League contender on Friday (8.30 p.m. / DAZN).
After the slips of FC Bayern (1: 1), Borussia Dortmund (2: 1) and VfL Wolfsburg (2: 2), the works team is at least warned.
Something unusual is happening in Köpenick.
The failure of Max Kruse did not upset the Berliners either.
On the contrary.
Union has not lost a Bundesliga game since the popular difference player tore his muscles at the 1: 3 derby at Hertha BSC in early December.
Contrary to all forecasts, the top teams in the industry were also defied.
Fifth place is the reward, international business is no longer a completely abstract vision.
This has not escaped the Leverkusen team, who recently won three league games.
“Union has a clear, distinct style of play.
You run aggressively at the front and will not stand in the back.
They didn't do that against other top teams either, ”said coach Peter Bosz.
The Union success is no coincidence: "They are really a good team that will stay at the front."
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As a sign of pleasant idleness and a bit out of boredom, the convalescent Kruse also worked as a scrambled egg cook on Instagram and looked for a delivery service for gluten-free pancakes from his apartment in the trendy Friedrichshain district.
Worries look different.
Coach Fischer, a model Swiss in language and attitude, has been laughing more and more recently.
The 54-year-old's facial features only harden reflexively when asked about the goal setting and when the stimulus word European Cup is heard.
Fischer blocks everything that is thematically incompatible with the goal of relegation.
His special achievement is to have formed a team from the strongly reacting Union collective from the previous season that proactively meets the best at eye level with combination football.
The uncompromising style was by no means lost, which Wolfsburg's top striker Wout Weghorst recently complained about.
Kruse countered from the Instagram-Off: "Schuster, stick to your last".
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Fischer always makes this very old-fashioned saying his own for Kruse's vocabulary.
He warns in particular of Leverkusen, which Union has never defeated: “We have to prevent them from playing football, even in their half of the pitch.
If you give them space, they get into positions where they can be dangerous.
Then they have the playful means where it becomes difficult to defend them. "
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