Again two traditional teams meet each other this evening when Düsseldorf hosts St. Pauli. It is an important match for both, Düsseldorf can be the winner of the Round beside Ingolstadt because some of the promotion candidates lost Points and in this case with a win Düsseldorf can climb up to 2nd place. On the other side St. Pauli with a horrible start doing better and better recently. This means that they are on a good way and according to their last performance they have to confirm this anyway. With a win they are able to walk on a bit and climb up some places.
We can say, Fortuna had some problems to begin but did a great job in the past games and the last one was an excellent performance in Darmstadt where they won easy 4-1. Their new striker Pohjanpalo is in great shape and scored in all the last games. The only problem they face is the injury from defender youngster Tah who played great but miss this game now. He must be replaced but it should be not the problem at all, Soares played this position very well and he is set to do again beside Bodzek today. More changes are not expected although Coach Reck has a lot of alternatives in hand above all the offensive looks great. With Hoffer they have a really good weapon on the bench but he made his job not bad, it is only Pohjanpalo is too good at the moment and he scored 6 goals in 4 games, so why should he change then.
The team from Hamburg had a lot of problems before the break with injured players and they had a lot of hopes that the two weeks break can put some of them back into the squad but the hopes have not all been fulfilled. Only Gonther and Nehrig returning to the squad, all the others are still injured. Both are not ready for the first eleven what means that the youngsters are still in responsibility to bring their performance on the pitch. Maybe Nehring must play the back wing part as with Thy was only a compromise so far. The others Buchtmann, Schachten, Kalla and Halstenberg are still unavailable while a new injured player came to them with defender Thorandt. It looks like that Coach Meggle put up the same lineup who won comfortable against Union 3-0 before the break. Once again the youngster must do the job.
It is all up to Düsseldorf if they win or not but they need some space according to their fast and quick players. So it would be much more easy for them if they can take the lead early in the game. On the other side I am not expecting an attacking side from Pauli. It is more a deep and compact defending team today.
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