Strong hosts face newly-promoted team from Duisburg
TEAM NEWS
Dresden have lost three
important key players in the form of Marvin Stefaniak, Akaki Gogia and Stefan
Kutschke. It will be hard to replace them as only new arrivals Soren Gonther
(St. Pauli) and Rico Benatelli (Wurzburg) have the same level of experience and
are available immediately. The other arrivals are only squad players like midfielder
Patrick Moschl (Ried), midfielder Sascha Horvath (Sturm Graz) and forward
Rosner (Grossaspach).
Duisburg are placing their
trust in their successful team from last season. They have been quiet on the
transfer market and there will only be a small number of new players to
strengthen the team, including goalkeeper Daniel Davari (Bielefeld), defender
Gerrit Nauber (Lotte), midfielder Lukas Frode (Wurzburg), midfielder Cauly
Oliveira Souza (Wurzburg), forward Borys Tashchy (Stuttgart) and midfielder Moritz
Stoppelkamp (Paderborn).
Dresden
Suspended: None
Doubtful: Soren Gonther (unspecified)
Injured/unavailable: Aias
Aosman (thigh), Niklas Hauptmann (groin), Florian Ballas (ankle)
Duisburg
Suspended: None
Doubtful: Branimir Bajic (unspecified)
Injured/unavailable: Tim Albutat
(ankle), Zlatko Janjic (knee)
MATCH PREVIEW
MAIN PREDICTION: AWAY WIN
Dresden are known for their
home fortress and their support is absolutely great. It is not always easy to
play there as their fans make a lot of noise and if the team are rolling they
are very hard to stop while they can overcome their opponents easily. For
newly-promoted Duisburg, this is by no means an ideal start to the new season,
but Dresden have a lot of absentees and must find the right mix of players for
this game.
Duisburg are back in
2.Bundesliga after just one year in the third tier and they want to do a better
job than two years ago. They have been working very hard at all fronts, with coach
Iliya Gruev having to find solutions to get more power into the attack as they
were far too ineffective up front last season. The coach stands for compactness
and discipline and is adamant that he wants to see both from his team. If they
can hold this game even and hold their nerves in this noisy stadium they should
be able to get something out of this game.
It is always hard to start the
campaign with a home game against a newly-promoted team – and especially when
you have several injury worries to deal with. I think this puts Duisburg in a
very good position and a win over Dresden might be the surprise of the weekend
in my eyes. Away win – but only if you dare.
SECOND PREDICTION: HILO – HIGH (OVER 2.5 GOALS)
This is bound to be a tough
encounter and the newcomers should be motivated, but Dresden’s home crowd might
push their team all the way. I’ll go with over 2.5 goals.
HEAD TO HEAD
Dresden’s all-time home
record against Duisburg is three wins, two draws and two defeats, with nine
goals for and six against.
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