VfL Bochum will test on Thursday. These are the plans of VfL coach Thomas Letsch.

The international break usually means that teams play test matches in order to give their second-string players some match practice or to keep up their rhythm.

The Bundesliga team VfL Bochum will play VV St. Truiden from the Belgian Jupiler Pro League on Thursday (7 September, 2 pm). The match will be played on the athletics pitch at the Vonovia Ruhrstadion. Admission is free.

Takuma Asano (playing with Japan against Germany), Erhan Mašović (nominated by the Serbian federation but had to cancel), Tim Oermann (nominated for the German U20) and Matúš Bero (playing against Portugal and Liechtenstein in the European Championship qualifiers with Slovakia) will not be taking part. Kevin Stöger (for Austria’s national team) is on call.

In addition, Mohammed Tolba, Gonçalo Paciência and Mats Pannewig will have to miss out, the rest are fit, much to the delight of VfL coach Thomas Letsch, who emphasises: “For the players who have been less involved so far, it’s a chance to show themselves. For many of them it’s important to play 90 minutes. We have almost no injuries at the moment, which is a great situation. “

We have almost no injured players at the moment, that’s a great situation.

Thomas Letsch

Good for Letsch, Moritz Kwarteng and Philipp Förster are also fully back. Letsch will use both: “Philipp should ideally go over 90 minutes. Moritz was out for a very long time. We have agreed with him and the medical department that he will play the last 30 minutes.

No one from the newly formed U21 prospect team, which won 12:1 against Westfalen-Oberliga club Türkspor Dortmund in its first match, will join the squad, for a simple reason, as Letsch revealed: “It’s not like we’re saying now that one or the other has to join immediately. But it was a great performance by the boys. It is important that they gain experience against adults. There are a few exciting players in the squad, but we also have a big squad at the moment, so it doesn’t make sense to bring in another one. “