Captain Christian Gentner and his team-mates began their preparations for Sunday’s trip to Mönchengladbach (kick-off 18:00 CET) with an open session at the VfB training ground on Tuesday.
Holger Badstuber, Anastasios Donis and Marc Oliver Kempf trained separately from the main group after taking part in the warm-up with the rest of the squad. Under-19 players Antonis Aidonis and Leon Dajaku were involved in the open session, but Pablo Maffeo also trained on his own as he continues to work his way back from an ankle injury.
Annual visit
After training on Tuesday, Mario Gomez and Co. continued their annual tradition of attending the Christmas parties of official VfB fan clubs.