…INJURY REPORT

Injured quintet Nikolas Nartey, Dan-Axel Zagadou, Josha Vagnoman, Lilian Egloff and Roberto Massimo remain sidelined.. Maximilian Mittelstädt and Enzo Millot both received their fifth yellow cards of the season at Bayer 04 Leverkusen last weekend and will also miss this one.

…CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

We watched the Dortmund and Bayern games and all spoke to each other straight afterwards. It’s just unbelievable that we’ll be playing in the Champions League next season. It’s something very special. The mood is relaxed. Today I heard the Champions League anthem from the dressing room after the training session. That's also completely fine, but there's no reason to give anything away. We want to qualify in our own right and have a standout home game against Bayern ahead of us.

…BAYERN

Bayern have 69 points, are in the Champions League semi-finals and are a top team however they line up. We’re not expecting a weakened team that’s easy to play against – on the contrary. Bayern have always compensated for absences well and got their points recently regardless of line-up.

…KIM MIN JAE

We've already spoken. The situations were clear. There are more ways to defend than always being greedy. He's someone who wants to defend in a very aggressive way. It's how he defines himself. The mistakes came from a good impetus. It's easy to keep supporting him. He had a top game against Union, good minutes against Arsenal, has also trained well. He'll continue to get our full support and has our backing. There's a good chance he'll play tomorrow. Matthijs isn't available, Upa has felt something. It could be that we only have two centre-backs tomorrow.

…POTENTIAL ROTATION

We'll give a few players the chance to pick up some rhythm. But that doesn't relieve us of our responsibility, that those who play have to fight and show grit there. We're expecting an emotional match in an emotional stadium. The opponent will give all they've got.

…STUTTGART

It'll be a big challenge tomorrow. I think we know what's coming our way. They're coming from surviving the drop via the play-off to becoming one of the best teams in the league. They play with great calm and automated patterns. Stuttgart are consistently playing at their upper limit.

...INJURY REPORT

Matthijs de Ligt won't be in the squad. The plan is that he returns to training on Sunday, then we've got three days. Jamal Musiala won't be in the squad tomorrow. Same procedure there. Leroy Sane will train today and come with us to Stuttgart. Dayot Upamecano will try and train today, so we'll see.