SC Paderborn - Karlsruher SC

In the past season they were not very pleased at SC Paderborn with the performances on home soil, only five wins were against six defeats. This season, Coach André Breitenreiter sees his team on the best way to reverse this trend: "We have shown in all three home games good performance and want to be the home power.  The unfortunate defeat against Kaiserslautern was followed by a 1-1 draw against 1. FC Cologne and the first home win against 1860 Munich 1-0. After an equal balance against the top three promotion candidates they will now want to celebrate their second home win against promoted team from Karlsruhe. With a win they could at least temporarily leave the relegation zone behind them. According to this Breitenreiter wants to play offensive for the win today despite some missing he has to replace. With similar self confidence comes Karlsruhe to the game today. Despite a small run without a win in their past three matches the current fifth think they are on a good way as away from home they have taken seven points from three matches so far. Coach Markus Kauczinski estimates the current standings of the teams in this early stage of the season but realistic. Overall in 10 matches there was no draw so far, only wins, 6 for Paderborn and 4 for KSC.

The hosts are missing MID Alban Meha (long term injured), DEF Christian Strohdiek (Shoulder injury), MID Daniel Bruckner (abdominal muscles) and STR Mahir Saglik (back) a number of experienced players. At center back Martin Amedick will replace Strohdiek and comes to his third start. The missing from striker Saglik probably compensate Elias Kachunga. For the vacant position on the left is the most likely scenario that Daniel Brückner (doubtful) takes the offensive part while new signing Florain Hartherz (from Werder Bremen) gets his chance immediately as defender to prove his skills in starting eleven.

In contrast to his colleague from Paderborn KSC Coach Kauczinski can choose from almost all players from his squad, only long term absent Martin Stoll in unavailable. In spite of this will probably be at least one change in the starting lineup. On the left back it is likely that Dennis Kempe move in the team while Michael Vitzthum must on bench, although he played well in his first few matches of the season in 2.Bundesliga. Also in offensive Coach Kauczinski has several options here but apparently tends to play with the same duo Micanski and Nazarov from beginning on as both played already in game against Aalen. Both worked well together what KSC Coach mentioned. But on the scoring efficiency, however, the attack must still work. Because with only six goals scored in the previous six matches, KSC is a hit worse than SC Paderborn in this category. In particular this is still highly upgradable from both sides.