VfB Stuttgart‘s preparations for the Champions League game at Juventus Turin began in the 74th minute of the Bundesliga game at FC Bayern. When the score was 2-0 for Munich, the boards with the numbers “26” and “18” lit up on the sidelines, and the associated Stuttgart players Deniz Undav and Jamie Leweling trotted off the pitch. In this case, the black plaques served the function of a white flag: the dismissal of the national strikers was like a declaration of surrender and an admission that the worst possible case had occurred. Undav and Leweling had run tired and were in a bad mood because of a defeat that ended up being twice as big (0:4).
