Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Schalke 04

This is an important match for both teams and maybe this can be a decider if Frankfurt has the change to get fourth place or if Schalke open the gap more. Frankfurt missed a lot and they lost their good style from first half of the season where they played really impressive offensive soccer. This has changed a lot so far above all they faced a lot of problems in the past. Be it, many injured, suspended or out of form players gave them a big setback. Of course as newcomer they can not hope for a constant season and also they have not such a deep squad to compensate these problems. If some of their important players are not on their normal level it is very hard to win matches, this happen, and they are more than happy that they are still in this position to reach an international place for next season. But for this they have to stop their scoring problems, I am sure that they can do this although without important players again because keeper Trapp, midfielder Schwegler (doubtful), defender Jung and striker Meier are four starters out. Nevertheless maybe they get more space against a team from Schalke who tries to win as well. But can they find the right balance to overcome them? It is very difficult to estimate and I think they have a short bench as well with some youngsters or they do not field all. Coach Veh mentioned that he has one man less on bench as normal. More as difficult today.

FC Schalke 04 is back in business after a long and hard time above all Coach Keller was not very pleased about the Press and reports about him and his team. Despite all these problems he managed it to bring them back to fourth place and they are much more successful in the past matches. Their only remaining competition is Bundesliga now and they can concentrate them on the upcoming matches to bring this season to a good end. After Keller made some changes on some positions Schalke played much better and also some players are much better now. One of them is Julian Draxler who played many times on the wing but in central offensive midfield he is much dangerous now and had good performances as well. Sure they are without some long term injured players like Affelay, Papadopoulos, Huntelaar and Obasi but these guys are not available untill winter break so no worries, the only one is Farfan who got a fresh injury and is out for this match but the rest are all there and can therefore Coach Keller can field a strong starting lineup who is more as able to win at Frankfurt. They are doing well away from home and they played good also in Nürnberg where they lost unlucky 0-3 but if they had used one of their big chances to beginning of the match they should have won this too but if you miss 2-3 mega chances it is as always in soccer, you lose. Bremen was bad first half but in second they played really well and won deserved. Overall I see them on a good way.

This encounter can produce goals because both are in a situation they can not sit back and if one of them take the lead, the other side has to come out and put all in what they have available and it can be a lot of space for the fast wings on both sides. Moreover with Frankfurt's missings it is more possible that Schalke try to press to get the win but on the other side with Gladbach's win yesterday Frankfurt is almost in a must win situation if they want to get a EL Spot for next season. I like the over here and also Schalke because Frankfurt look a bit out of form and short on bench. 

Recommend Bet: FC Schalke 04 AHC -0,25 @ 1,88 + OVER 2,75 @ 1,96 (each 3 Units)