Overview

• Sporting director Otmar Schork placed Fiedler on leave Sunday after setting a deadline to begin a Monday reset.
• Schork said talks following the Elversberg loss showed the squad needed a new impulse.
• U23 coaches Petrik Sander and Pascal Ibold led first-team training and are preparing the side for Sunday’s match in Darmstadt.
• A-youth coaches Daniel Wölfel and Carsten Müller are temporarily covering the U23.
• Magdeburg are bottom of the 2. Bundesliga with three points from eight games after six straight league defeats, and Schork has begun contacts with candidates while ruling out a rushed appointment.