Jahn Regensburg - VfR Aalen

It seems that Regensburg is on a huge downtrend at the moment. They are not anymore such good in their defensive play as to beginning of the season. As the last matches showed. They are winless since 5 matches and in all these matches they conceded 2 goals or more. Overall one time 2 and 3 times 3 and one time 4. It is obvious where the big problem lies, but even the offensive are to harmless as well as they scored 1 / 2 / 1 / 0 / 2 and 3. Especially the match against Köln is to mentioned where they were 2-0 up but can not hold such a lead and they lost within a few minutes 2-3 in the end. This match is still in their minds as we saw against Ingolstadt as they lead and also against Union where they were even 2-0 up and then 2-3 down but came back with one men more to 3-3. If they take the lead and even the longer the match lasts players getting more nervous as they have in mind such situations from Köln and Union. And if they concede the first goal, more to come because they make mistake after mistake then. It is a must win match for them already if they want to keep in touch to the places above the red zone. Coach Gerber has a lot to do to get the heads of the players free to look forward. He has to replace some as Rahn, Djuricin and Kurz are out. Back wing Rahn is important for them above all his experience.

VfR Aalen is very dangerous away from home as they play only their counter attack style. All their opponents has much more ball possession as they. And even they are at the bottom of this category. But  nevertheless they are very successfully with their style of play as they collected a lot of points, ok they scored not much overall but this is not such important as they conceded also less. It is very hard to score against them and upfront they are always able to score as their fast players like Lechleitner, Dausch, Leandro and Klauß decides matches. Above all Klauß should be huge motivated for this encounter as he was one of the promotion heros for Regensburg last year. He did a very good job there and was very important. But his future is VfR Aalen now. Coach Hasenhüttl can not count on Hofmann suspended and Mössmer injured. But overall a very good squad to choose from.

I think both sides are very motivated and maybe it will be a very close and hard match .... big fight as well but maybe the team with the first bigger mistake will lose here.