One of a few surprise packages from the opening two weeks of the 2026/27 campaign, Manuel Baum’s Augsburg currently sit at the top of the Bundesliga table after confident, clinical displays against Schalke and Eintracht Frankfurt.
Augsburg scored two goals in as many minutes to overturn a 1-0 deficit before sensational strikes from Alexis Claude-Maurice’s and Fabian Rieder sent Manuel Baum’s charges to the Bundesliga summit with a 4-1 triumph against a winless Eintracht Frankfurt.
Simo Valakari is "a happy man" after adding midfielders Josh Campbell and Joel Cotterill to his St Johnstone squad this week. German forward Danny Schmidt has also been recruited and has obtained a work permit in time for Sunday's Scottish Premiership visit of Hibernian (15:00). "I'm a happy man," Valakari told Saints TV.
Despite suffering a 4-1 defeat away to VfB Stuttgart on Friday evening, Cologne still made history, becoming the first Bundesliga side ever to have three Englishmen — Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Mikey Moore and Reigan Heskey — on the pitch at the same time.
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