Overview
- Kickoff is set for 13:30 CET at the Olympiastadion Berlin, and the game will not be shown free-to-air.
- Hertha enter on five straight league wins and five clean sheets, part of nine shutouts in their first 14 matches, and a sixth in a row would tie a 1990 club mark.
- Magdeburg are winless in six away league matches and will be without suspended defender Marcus Mathisen for yellow-card accumulation.
- Hertha’s recent 6–1 DFB-Pokal win over Kaiserslautern featured scorer Dawid Kownacki and drew attention for his tactics-note incident.
- Magdeburg’s 1–3 cup loss in Leipzig was overshadowed by a traveling fan’s death and the club extended condolences, while league data show they have been scoreless a league-high eight times yet score 46% of their goals in the final 15 minutes.