Friday 2.Bundesliga Update

Difficult match for both. VfL Bochum has much more ambitions as last season but they fight with ups and downs again. Coach Bergmann has not much to choose from because with Acquistapace, Aydin, Toski, Dabrowski, Fabian, Delura and Esser miss Bochum a huge amount of players. Also their performances were average. They create not much above all away from home and this can be the key against a team who has a very good defense.
1860 came to Bochum to stop their negative trend against VfL. They are winless for years now and their last success against Bochum was a match where both played one league higher and had better times as now. With a Hattrick scored from Benny Lauth they won 3-1 after 0-1. No imp. missings for Coach Maurer, only central midfielder Makos will miss. Their defense is very hard to beat and they are 3 times with a clean sheet from 4 matches so far. They love to play on counter where their fast wings with Stoppelkamp and Halfar can play a good role and also Lauth in the middle has his best situations.

Ingolstadt with a slow start into the season but they showed in some situaions already their strength. Not without any reason talk some experts from good chances for promotion with this squad. But the officials do not want to know something about this. They made the breakthrough in their last match before the break against Paderborn where they got their first win after some average results. This put them a bit out of the bottom of the table and they can look forward to higher positions. No important missings.
Union started great in a fantastic match against Kaiserslautern with 3-3 but lost all their next matches. They played not bad but were not able to put some more pressure on their opponents or made some unnecessary mistakes in their defense and allowed some easy goals. All this happen and they are at the bottom of the table with only one point. Things must go better now if they do not want to stay longer there. They played some test matches and some of the young players showed good performances. One of them was Jopek who should be in the starting eleven for this match now. Coach Neuhaus is a bit under pressure and he needs points very well now. He choose some players who can maybe bring some surprising moments in their play.  Union miss some with Kohlmann, Kopplin, Parensen and Zoundi. In this encounter it rains goals ... 3-3 and 1-4 last season.

Probably Lineups:
FC Ingolstadt: Özcan - Görlitz - Biliskov - Mijatovic - Schäfer - Leitl - Matip - Groß - Korkmaz - Eigler - Caiuby

Union Berlin: Haas - Pfertzel - Stuff - Schönheim - Trapp - Karl - Quiring - Mattuschka - Jopek - Silvio - Terodde

Amazing start into the season from both teams. Both with 3-1-0 so far, only one goal between both teams in the table because Cottbus 8-2 goals and FSV 7-2. But overall the record speaks clear for Cottbus who won 3 while FSV won only 1 by 2 draws.
Coach Bommer maybe found the right mix for his team and they played good so far. First match was a bit lucky in the end where they was 0-2 down but came back in the end to 2-2. The other 3 matches are all won and always with a clean sheet. The whole team worked well and should be able to have much more success as last season where they won not much. But we have to wait a bit because the same situation almost last season and after the break they were lousy and played awful and according to their performance they won only 2 from 30 matches. They were not really effective infront of the goal last season and scored less, this was their weakest goal production in their whole 2.Bundesliga membership. But I think things has chanced a bit now after all they has a very good striker with Sanogo who war able to score and maybe Adlung has better times as well.
What a surprise after all this bad news and situation with injuries and so on ..... FSV are unbeaten in the first 4 rounds although they had and have huge problems in defense with injured players who are not available but they find a way to win matches and placed them very well in the table. Sure poorer days will come and they do not stay always at the top of the table ...... but they do their best and want continue their success. Gledson made some tests but it is not confirmed yet if he can play or not, if not midfielder Konrad gets back as central defender beside young Heubach. Still out are Schlicke, Jung, Gaus, Tosunoglu and Leckie.

Probably Lineups:
Cottbus: Kirschbaum - Engel - Hünemeier - Möhlre - Bittroff - Banovic - Kruska - Farina - Adlung - Sanogo - Stiepermann

FSV: Klandt - Huber - Konrad - Heubach - Teixeira - Stark - Bambara - Görlitz - Roshi - Yelen - Kapllani

Good Luck !!