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RB vs BVB - that's the cracker in the cup semifinals
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In the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup, defending champion RB Leipzig and coach Marco Rose will meet his former club Borussia Dortmund.
Leipzig will host BVB in the game on April 4th or 5th.
In addition, record cup winners FC Bayern Munich welcome SC Freiburg, finalists from last season.
That was the result of the draw in the German Football Museum in Dortmund.
National player Jacqueline Meißner from SGS Essen drew the lot.
Rose would have preferred to get Dortmund later
"It's nice that it worked out for our fans with a home game," said Rose, adding: "Personally, I'm looking forward to meeting old friends, even if you'd rather only meet Borussia Dortmund in the semifinals or final." year-old coached BVB from July 2021 to May 2022.
For FC Bayern it is the second meeting with Freiburg in the cup.
In 2005, the Munich team beat the Breisgauers 7-0 in the quarter-finals.
Second division Nuremberg welcomes VfB Stuttgart
Eintracht Frankfurt faces 1. FC Union Berlin.
Union professional Timo Baumgartl said: "We would have liked to have had a home game.
But we take it that way.
A quarterfinal is there to be won.«
1. FC Nürnberg is the only remaining second division team to play against VfB Stuttgart.
“There have been no preferred opponents in the quarter-finals for a long time,” commented VfB sporting director Fabian Wohlgemuth.
»Nuremberg didn't fight its way so far in this competition to leave us the field without resistance.«
The semi-finals are scheduled for May 2nd and 3rd, with the final taking place on June 3rd in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.
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