Bor. M'Gladbach - Eintracht Frankfurt

Arrango scored the lead last season !!!

An important match for both teams as they are aiming for an international starting place for next season. This means that they must get Points as much as they can but both teams have some problems above all a big difference if they play at home or even on the road. Gladbach did very well at home with 4-0-0 while losing almost all on the road. A bit different is the situation for Frankfurt who collected no home wins so far but away from home they managed to get some Points. So it will be nice to see what team can be the better today.

The fortress from Gladbach was impregnable so far and they want to continue this with the next home win against Frankfurt. Coach Favre counts again on an offensive style of play where with Kruse, Herrmann, Raffael and Arrango his key players are all available. Also the first substitute Hrgota is on bench and he can bring with him some boost if the play is not like he wants or the result is not in their favor. But overall they have a lot of problems in defensive today. With a lot of unavailable players Coach Favre must change his defensive row a lot. Both defender Stranzl suspended and Dominguez injured are out for this match. So only one defender with Brouwers left. He maybe wants to count on old man Deams but he suffered some injury in the past too and is maybe not available. Therefore he must search for the second defender what is not so important. It will be a guy who never player there if he do not count on a player from second team. Next area with problems is the central midfield where Nordtveit is out but with Kramer and Xhaka there are two players who can play this position very well. Overall this will be an different match as their last one where they was not able to hold the pressure away from their goal but was the lucky team as Dortmund outplayed them but they won 2-0 in the end. This time they must be more active and control the game from beginning on what they want to do but nevertheless the defensive is the weak point today. They must be intent not to open to much.

International starter Frankfurt got a lot of self confidence with their win in EL on Thursday. But only in EL they celebrated home wins, in League they are waiting still. On the road they are on a good way and they play a good level there. They count on counters what is the right one today as Gladbach mentioned that they want to control the game and with Gladbach's defensive problems they should be able to hurt them in some situations. With inform Kadlec who scored for free in the past and also the returning form key offensive player Meier it is a good and dangerous lineup expected. They were only beaten one time away from home and this shows that they are very hard to beat. The only bad thing is that they conceded to many late goals in the past matches what costs them a lot of Points (against Freiburg, Nürnberg and Hamburg all were draw in the end). They want to to better this time and get the lost Points back, this can be the first good place where they can start now.

All home matches won, the last one with a lot of luck and this time with big problems in defensive, I think Frankfurt has a real chance here to take at least at Point. They have for sure some self confidence and their play is also not the weakest away from home. The situation is clear, Gladbach try to control this one but Frankfurt is dangerous in counter attacks what brings Galdbach in danger. Therefore I try a shot on the away team here.

Recommend Pick: Eintracht Frankfurt AHC +0,25 @ 1,98 (3 Units)