TSG beat Vaduz in first friendly

Three new signings featured in the starting eleven. Kevin Vogt played in holding midfield, Lukas Rupp lined up in midfield and Sandro Wagner played up front. Oliver Baumann was between the sticks before the break, Niklas Süle, Ermin Bicakcic, Jeremy Toljan and Jin-Su Kim played in defence; Steven Zuber and Jonathan Schmid completed the team.

Hoffenheim needed a few minutes to settle into the game, with Wagner having the first chance (15’). The opening goal came after half an hour when Steven Zuber fired home after great work from Wagner and Toljan. Despite having further chances, the scoreline wasn’t added to before the interval.

Plenty of changes, three goals

Only Bicakcic and Süle returned after the break, with Gregor Kobel, Eugen Polanski, Pirmin Schwegler, Jiloan Hamad, Mark Uth, Dennis Geiger, Marco Terrazzino, Kerem Demirbay and Baris Atik coming on. Atik won a penalty just six minutes into the second period, which Uth fired home with aplomb. The forward grabbed his second of the day moments later to make it 3-0 to TSG.

Uth almost wrapped up a quickfire treble soon after but his powerful volley drifted past the post. A debutant wrapped up the scoring with 12 to play. Terrazzino fired in a powerful effort before Demirbay tipped home the rebound.

Julian Nagelsmann spoke to the press after the final whistle, stating that “I was not pleased with how the first half went, but we were better after the break. We tried some new things today and you can’t expect everything to go perfectly instantly. I’m certain that we’ll get better as time progresses.”

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