Run-up to Bremen game starts – Jedvaj rested

For the start of the week, the Werkself head coach arranged a 50-minute recovery session including passing drills and shooting practice. The players used against Hannover 96 finished the session ten minutes early.

While Lars Bender, who did not travel to Hannover, completed the whole of the training session, Tin Jedvaj was rested for the start of the week. The Croatia international, who played on the left side of defence for the full 90 minutes in the last three games, completed a dedicated session in the gym at the BayArena. Goalkeeper Thorsten Kirschbaum also missed out on training due to a bout of flu.

Joel Pohjanpalo and Sven Bender trained on their own on a neighbouring pitch on Tuesday. The latter is recovering well from the head injury he suffered in the Freiburg game and is set to rejoin full training on Wednesday. Tomorrow's training (10.30 CET) is also the last open session  before the home game against Werder Bremen on Sunday (13.30 CET, live text commentary and web radio in German at bayer04.de).