1.FC Kaiserslautern - SV Sandhausen

Huge pressure on the home team today, because this should be the last chance for them if they want to be one of the candidates for promotion. They failed huge in the past matches and they could not win much what put them far away from promotion race. Therefore they must try to start a series to get closer again to the top. The potential should be there above all in offensive they have a lot of good and experienced players but some of them looked out of form in the last matches. Very important is maybe that their top scorer Zoller returns after injury today. This maybe can help them a bit and Coach Runjaic can change a bit of his offensive formation.

On the other side Sandhausen can play very relaxed and easy. They do a great job so far and they are far away from any trouble. Last season they were relegated but only due to Duisburg got no license for this season and therefore Sandhausen stayed in the league. They learned from last season and this showed the results too. Also they are very hard to play, Coach Schwartz find the right balance and they fight all the time very hard. They also play very disciplined which also has repercussions on the defensive. They are very hard to beat there and this showed the number of clean sheets too.

Statistic:

Kaiserslautern lost all of their last three matches.

The problems were there before the winter break already, they lost 6 of the last 8.

Sandhausen got only one Point from the last three matches but played against Cologne and KSC.

SVS scored in all three matches against Kaiserlsautern at least one goal (1-0, 1-1 and 1-3).

Former striker Löning scored the winning goal for Sandhausen but signed for Aue in winter break.

In all three matches between these two teams were a lot of fouls, 20 yellow cards were shown.

Sandhausen’s Coach Schwartz worked for Kaiserslautern already, he trained the 2^nd and 1^stteam.

Timo Achenbach is wating since 43 matches for a goal, his last one was against Kaiserslautern 2012.

Only Fürth collected more home wins (7) as Kaiserslautern (6).

The “Betzenberg” has lost its horror because 3 of the last 4 home matches were lost from FCK.

After three unbeaten matches on the road lost Sandhausen to Karlsruhe 1-2.

Sandhausen kept 12 times a clean sheet, best number from all team in the league.