RB Leipzig - Eintracht Braunschweig

Important match between two teams which was far away from each other last season. RB Leipzig played in 3rd league but made the promotion step while Eintracht Braunschweig played 1.Bundesliga but had a hard and awful season and therefore at the end they were relegated. Both started very well, RB with 8 Points out of 4 matches as newcomer is very good and they kept in all their matches a clean sheet. On the other side Braunschweig did also well and they got 4 Points from the first two matches but failed in the following matches against Kaiserlsautern and Bochum. If they do not want to fall behind huge they have to return on the winning side today but first of all they have to break through this good defensive wall from Leipzig. Also a huge crowd is expected with over 20.000 fans.

We had a national break and normally all the injured players have time to return easy in this period but at Leipzig it is much more different. They got a lot of injured players more and therefore Coach Zorniger can not choose from all. Of course sure out because of long term injury are Coltorti, Franke, Ernst and Boyd. Fresh injured are Hoheneder, U19 national player Klostermann and due to red card suspended from last match in Frankfurt is Fandrich.  More as a doubt is Rebic who was on a good way but a lot of problems has arrived during the last trainings week again. Also doubtful are Kimmich, Khedira, Frahn, Kaisers and Heidinger but it is more as possible that these guys stands on the pitch today. According to all this news maybe some changes are possible but it looks like that these are only 2-3. All other guys are ready and the squad is big enough to replace one or two. Important striker Poulsen is back and this is a big plus for RBL. He is one of the best striker in 2.Bundesliga although he is still very young.

After the home defeat to Bochum 1-2 Coach Lieberknecht has a lot of work to do and he tried to find the right mix for this match as he wants to chance some positions. He was not very pleased with some players above all after the Bochum match. He is thinking about a new central back with Decarli and Correia because both are very fast and this means that old veteran Dogan is out of the starting lineup. With this new guys Lieberknecht hopes for more stability in defensive line and maybe a more faster play forward. Also Vrancic was weak against Bochum, this can move him back on bench while Boland move to the middle beside Theuerkauf. Therefore we have one open position on the left wing who can be played from Zuck here. On the other side Ryu is an alternative to Korte. In offensive they have four weapons with Kruppke, Nielsen, Ademi and Bakenga. Normally the first two guys are set to play as in the past but in the national break the others are making a lot of pressure with some need training sessions and also some goals in friendlies. So this position is more open as in the past.