Chema Andrés

Defensive Midfielder - VfB Stuttgart
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Chema Andrés

5 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Tempers go at VfB Stuttgart

Atakan Karazor was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Chris Führich

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

VfB Stuttgart get the job done against Mainz 05

A 1‑0 win over Mainz 05, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Raúl García did the work nobody counts — 6.52

11 combined actions and 6.52. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Deniz Undav

A mark of 7.88, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Fabian Bredlow dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market

The shop window has Fabian Bredlow in it

VfB Stuttgart have let the market know Fabian Bredlow can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Squad

Deniz Undav is off the mark for VfB Stuttgart

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

The plan did not have a place for Ermedin Demirović

Nobody at VfB Stuttgart is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief