Marco Rose: We still have five games to go and we want to keep pushing, starting in Freiburg. We’ll obviously think about what our opponents bring to the pitch, but we also have to think about what we want to do, which worked well against Union Berlin. I don’t think Freiburg having two days’ extra rest than us plays a role. The body recovers after 72 hours and is ready to go again. We’re lucky to have lots of different goalscorers. To be the coach of a side playing successful football, you normally need one or two strikers who can score 20 or 25 goals. We have a lot of players contributing to that instead. We have several players close to ten goals and some with more. It demonstrates that we have good depth in attack and can react when, for example, someone like Embolo gets injured. We have a lot of faith in our forwards, as well as the entire squad. Now it’s about keeping it up for the final stretch. We’ve always said that our focus is on us and nothing has changed. We went two games without a win, but we managed to get all three points again against Union Berlin. Now it’s about kicking on and picking up more wins. There aren’t all that many games left and it’s all on the line. We have to perform rather than worry about how the table might look should this and that happen – only by putting in a good performance can we affect whether we win games or not. The games are coming thick and fast and every one sets us on a new course. Tomorrow evening, we have the chance to put us on course for success."

Florian Neuhaus’ goal in the Matchday 29 win over Union was Gladbach’s 3,000th Bundesliga strike, a milestone only previously reached by Bayern Munich, Dortmund and Bremen.

Plea and Thuram are the joint-leading scorers for Rose’s squad with 10 goals each.