It seems more and more that both direct promotion places are already taken from Hertha and Braunschweig. Therefore Kaiserslautern, Cologne, and some others fight for third and last promotion place but this put them only in a duel against a Bundesliga team. And overall a long way to go but if they have the luck on their side or they have the better days in these games all is possible. But still some league matches to play above all to direct contenders face each other on Betzenberg today. After a long time Kaiserslautern stands on third place and was huge ahead of the other teams but they lost the advantage and with their draw at Sandhausen last weekend Cologne close the gap, moreover they overcome them and is one point ahead now. Cologne closed the gap from over eleven points and has the better position in promotion race now. Thus this match is absolutely important for Kaiserslautern and they should not lose if they want to stay in the race, but a draw should be to less as well maybe.
After Kaiserslautern losing third place last weekend they want to bounce back today. This is the right time for a comeback immediately but they have to replace one of the most important player in midfield with Karl. The winter signing was one of the key players from coach Foda but got injured against Sandhausen and is unavailable longer. While with Alushi, Zellner, Linsmayer and De Wit are already four players out for this position Foda maybe has to change his system now. It means that he counts only on one player on sixer position. It can be Borysiuk who was slight injured to beginning of the week but return in training and is set to play. According to their situation and their handicap they have to play much more offensive as they had done otherwise. With only one man in central midfield is the first sign for this the next one would be that Baumjohann plays central offensive while Fortounis and Weiser on the wings. Last one should be huge motivated against his former club and push the other team mates as well. Defensive and Strikers should be the same and no changes there.
After the hard win against Regensburg last weekend they are in a good position now. They are on a 15 matches unbeaten run but nevertheless they had a lot of luck on their side in past weeks too. I remember some matches like this above all against Dresden where they should have lost as well but the individual class from striker Ujah made the difference here. He was out against Regensburg with flue and he was missed huge. Without him the offensive did not work as good as with him. Therefore Stanislawski is very happy that he can count on him today. Although Maierhofer had not the best performances he would play beside Ujah while Bröker is out of the starting lineup after his weak performance and missed penalty. For him can move in Jajalo also Chihi can be an option but he returns after a long injury time and is not ready for starting lineup. Next option can be striker Royer but this is not his normal position and needs a change in Stanislawski’s system what is not possible because they are very successful with 4-4-2 in the past.
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