FC Ingolstadt 04 - FC St. Pauli

Fin Bartels is back for the Pauli today

With 25 and 21 Points both teams stands in midfield of the table. Ingolstadt lost the contact to the top places with 5 matches without a win while St. Pauli fight a lot to come out of the bottom of the table but got a huge blow with 0-3 at home against Aue last weekend. Therefore both teams do not know much where the trip go in the table.

Although they got only a 1-1 draw at Cottbus last weekend but they self confidence is huge in Ingolstadt. It was more or less a very hard match above all with so much snow on the pitch and without  viewing much. Even with the last match, coach Oral should not change much but one of his important players are missing as he got his 5th yellow card and is suspended now (captain Leitl). For this Caiuby can move forward to Eigler while Korkmaz and Uludag are in the team then. And again with Groß and Roger on the double six but on the other side Matip has lost his starting place due to bad performances in the past.

Also FC St. Pauli is without his captain Boll. But they want to turn things around and they want to get the lost points back from the Aue match. But it was not such easy on a deep deep pitch. Boll is already on vacation and therefore Kringe and Funk are set on the double six. But some changes are expected as with Bartels they get one important wing back from suspension and also injured Mohr is an option beside Thorandt on central back while Avevor can move back to his normal position and push Kalla out of the starting lineup. The other missing are Bruns, Schindler and Gonther.

Overall a close match, both teams are not in their best moment but Ingolstadt had a lot of problems at least in their stadium. They like more if they can go for their counter style of play, on the other side they do not like if they must come and make the match. But this should be the key today as Pauli sit back and maybe looking to hurt Ingolstadt in some situations.