1.FC Kaiserslautern - Erzgebirge Aue

Next match ahead but Kaiserslautern stands under huge pressure if they do not want to open the gap to the top places to beginning of the season they have to win this match, nothing else. But before this, they should invest a bit more in their performance above all in their defensive or offensive who looked not very well against Fürth. They must turn things around if they want to keep their aims alive. On the other side with Aue we have a team who won both opening matches but knocked out from Cup against 3rd league team Osnabrück very easy and lost against Aalen at home where they played really awful and lost deserved. But nevertheless they are huge underdog today and they can only win !!!

Maybe due to the problems from Coach Foda that some players were already away to their national teams he had to change some against Fürth and this was also a key fact. So, all back today and he can count on central midfielder Ring again who played not such bad and gave his team much stability in the past matches. All in all looks like that all players are ready and Coach Foda has to choose from a lot the only open position can be beside striker Idrissou because Occean did not convinced much in his start debut against Fürth and he must maybe back on bench while young Zoller who scored 3 goals already maybe move in. It seems the better choice for Lautern because they were much stronger and much more dangerous with him.

One of the relegation candidates surprised to beginning of the season but they are on a huge downtrend in their last two matches. They were not able to advance in cup and also get something against Aalen. All the problems are back and they should try to get back but it is not an easy one today. Therefore Coach Götz watched the match from Kaiserslautern on monday and he has some nice informations. Despite these things he must replace his captain Klingbeil because of illness. Pezzoni and Könnecke were both doubtful but they said that they are available today, if they are at 100% it is questionable. Also it is more as sure that Coach Götz change some of his last lineup because he made 4 changes before the match against Aalen and it looks like that this was one of the biggest mistakes he made so far there. No one could convince much and so he changes back maybe to old style. Also he put up a very defensive minded eleven.