Overview

• Assistant Sebastian Bönig will lead Union on the touchline and handle media duties for Sunday’s home match against Hamburger SV (19:30, DAZN).
• Baumgart must serve a one-match suspension and is barred from interior areas and any direct or indirect team contact for 30 minutes before and after the game under DFB rules.
• His red card in Frankfurt followed an offensive gesture, a booking for dissent, and a subsequent dismissal for kicking a paper ball onto the pitch.
• Union will fine both Baumgart and Oliver Burke from the team fund, with Burke having missed a training session after travel delays caused by a fire at London Stansted Airport.
• Despite the ban, Union expects to benefit from Baumgart’s recent nine-month stint at HSV, with the coach supplying information outside the restricted periods.