The TSG Hoffenheim Post
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Nothing got past Wouter Burger
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 38 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match26 Nov 2027
TSG Hoffenheim do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and TSG Hoffenheim came through the finding-out well against Ajax.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Oliver Baumann decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match24 Nov 2027
TSG Hoffenheim bow out of the cup
Eintracht Frankfurt go through and TSG Hoffenheim go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
A defender's afternoon for Alexander Prass
Defensive actions: 33. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Both of them Fisnik Asllani's — 9.02
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.02, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
A defender's afternoon for Robin Hranáč
Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Oliver Baumann in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at TSG Hoffenheim this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Patrick Wimmer falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Match Still nobody has beaten TSG Hoffenheim
- Match TSG Hoffenheim see off Werder Bremen
- Squad Lennart Karl signs a new deal