FC St. Pauli

A run of three games without defeat came to an end on Sunday evening when the Boys in Brown lost 2-0 at Leipzig. The Saxony outfit proved extremely effective in the first half, taking a two-goal lead with their only attempts on goal through Benjamin Šeško and Xavi Simons. A second-half improvement boosted by a red card for Leipzig's Willi Orban was not enough to ward off the defeat.

The Bundesliga campaign continues with a trip to Leipzig on Sunday (kick-off: 17.30 CET). Head coach Alexander Blessin looked ahead to the game at the pre-match news conference on Friday.

FC St. Pauli will be without Manolis Saliakas and Morgan Guilavogui for the next few weeks. Saliakas sustained a muscle injury in his right thigh in the game against FC Augsburg, Guilavogui a hairline fracture of the navicular bone in his right foot.