VfB Stuttgart — Best pictures!

Werder Bremen’s Diego lost his top spot in our FTBL rating of midfielders in the German Bundesliga 1, despite his side’s 3:2 win in the second leg of the UEFA Cup semi-final over Hamburg.

Werder Bremen’s Brazilian midfielder Diego produced a fine performance in the all-German UEFA Cup semi-final first leg match against Hamburg last night to survive at the top of our FTBL ranking of midfielders in the Bundesliga despite losing 20.03 rating

Stuttgart goalkeeper Jens Lehmann, who will turn 41 this year, proved to his critics once more that they could not write him off just yet. Lehmann, who earned 19.10 rating points in his last appearance, has an overall rating of 103.11 points and tops

Manchester United’s goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar returned into the World Top 23 rating of goalkeepers after his side’s 5:2 demolition of Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Saturday. The Dutch international now has 132.42 points over all, second only

The second spot in the German Cup final will be decided tonight between FC Hamburg and Werder Bremen. The first club to qualify for the final was Bayer Leverkusen, who beat second-division Mainz 4:1 in overtime on Tuesday.