The Leipzig game is drawing ever closer, and preparations are well underway for the club’s first ever clash with the Bundesliga’s newest debutants. While the squad wasn’t back in regular training until this afternoon, there was already a trio of Werder players being put through their paces in the morning. Max Kruse, Claudio Pizarro and Serge Gnabry all conducted an individual fitness session with physio Adis Lovic.
Kruse and Pizarro have each been missing for several weeks and will still be sidelined for the weekend’s match, Gnabry has only had to contend with his back injury since Saturday, having sustained the knock in the win over Bayer Leverkusen. It’s not yet clear whether he will be available to face Leipzig. “I hope that I’ll be fit again, but we’ll have to wait and see how things develop,” Gnabry told WERDER.DE.
It also remains to be seen when the 21-year-old will return to training with the team. His team-mates, meanwhile, played in a small game organised by head coach Alexander Nouri on Wednesday afternoon, on the Platz 11 pitch.
