Overview
- The squad completed a final session in Lagos and returned to Berlin on Saturday.
- Preparation resumes Tuesday at the Olympiastadion for the January 17 match against league leaders Schalke 04, scheduled for 20:30 and televised on RTL and Sky.
- Coach Stefan Leitl called it an intensive week with few absences and said the group worked through all planned topics under better conditions than in Berlin.
- A 2–3 friendly defeat to Standard Liège was treated as a fitness test and did not change the coach’s positive evaluation of the camp.
- Defender Márton Dardai missed the friendly with a slight cold, and Leitl expects him to be available for the Schalke game.