Again you can imagine the boos from the crowd as David Wagner sends on a teenager instead of a more proven striker and Augsburg break clear, squander a chance and put a cross right across goal.

Fifteen minutes left.

Big chance for Schalke! From a corner, Michael Gregoritsch shrugs off his man and plants a header down, but about two yards wide.

Well we'll see. They look like they won't score a goal in a hundred years at the moment.

Philipp Max whips the Augsburg free-kick over the wall and this time Markus Schubert is able to fist it away.

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Less than 25 minutes left of this horror show of a Schalke performance. This is the very worst style of football in my personal opinion. Give me route one hoofs to a targetman over this any day of the week.

They've given away a free-kick in a good area here too.

A shot! Not a very good one but a shot from the hosts. Daniel Caligiuri chokes one wide from 20 yards.

Schalke make a real mess of possession in their own half and cough it up to the men in red. Marco Richter is able to drive inside from the right and hit a left-footed shot but it's straight at Markus Schubert.

Presentable chance.

Team news is in for game two of our triple header - Just the one change for Mainz sees Jeffrey Bruma, briefly of Chelsea and of Leicester, coming in.

RB Leipzig make three changes as much-fancied centre-back Dayot Upamecano starts. Rumoured Liverpool target Timo Werner starts up front.

It's really flat now as Augsburg make a change. We're at the hour mark of a very damp squib indeed from Schalke.

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Nope, Suat Serdar can't carry on, that leg has stiffened up and he can hardly walk on it now.

He hobbles away and Ahmed Kutucu comes on.

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13:41 BST 24 May 2020

Schalke 0-1 Augsburg

Hmmmm, not sure I totally agree Nick. Injury to insult here as Suat Serdar goes down in pain, it looked like he'd twanged a hamstring but actually I think it was just a knee to the thigh. Dead leg.

He'll be OK.

Nick Tier: I went to Schalke to see England v Portugal at 2006 WC. Amazing stadium; shame how the game ended up. As a result, I have now adopted Schalke as my Bundesliga team. Slightly regretted it after debacle last week, but “we” are looking a lot better today.

A big chance for 2-0! Augsburg suddenly find space down their left with Florian Niederlechner, who drives into the area. He's got two men inside but goes for goal himself and it's a tame effort which Markus Schubert can deal with easily enough.

If there were home fans in, they'd be booing now.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Real frustration from Schalke forward Michael Gregoritsch as he loses out on a throw-in decision. Toddler tantrum style. Sums up his side's display so far.

They had over 70% of the ball in the first half but just one shot on target.

Apparently Schalke have had 21 managers since 2002 so David Wagner may be under a touch of pressure if they can't turn this one around in the second half.

Dismal form after a good first half of the season.

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And we're off.

Spudlud: Can’t say I’ve missed footy one bit. No stupid VAR decisions, no players diving or going down like a sniper has shot them faking an injury. Do we really need a bunch of overpaid prima donnas on the screen ? Not really.

Ah travelling to international tournaments. Seems so far away now doesn't it?

Here come the players for the second half.

Kyle runs a tight ship.