SV Darmstadt 98 - FSV Frankfurt

A long time since both teams meets each other for a league match. In Season 2003/04 both teams won their home matches with 1-0 but it is already 10 years ago. Of course Darmstadt would be very pleased with a narrow 1-0 win today. With this win they can remain on top and make the distance to the bottom places bigger what is important for them to avoid relegation in the end what is their prime goal. The euphoria is very high in Darmstadt and they could sell already over 10.000 tickets for this game. On FSV side the moral is down after the harsh 1-5 defeat to Bochum at home at the weekend. If they lose this match again it is more as possible that they fall down to the bottom, they are already in danger zone with only 4 Points on their side.

Additional to these bad run they have not many alternatives left above all in offense they miss a lot. They can count on new signing Aouida at least after winter break, also MID Yelen is out for some weeks and on Monday gets Roshi ill. He is a big doubt here anyway. For this reason Roshi moves into the starting lineup and plays on left wing while Grifo plays on the right. A big question mark is behind the central part in defense, according to the less alternatives. Oumari played there after long injury time against Bochum but he was far away from good and needs some time to get in the rhythm. The only good and possible option is Beugelsdijk and Balitsch who played together 3 matches and FSV conceded only 1 goal in these games. But they have to look that they can control top striker Stroh-Engel and he is always good for goals and he is very tall what speaks against the duo. Therefore it is more as open what Coach Möhlmann decides.

The “Lilien” Coach Schuster can not criticism his team much as they invest all and did all what they are able to bring but in the end they lost 0-2 to Braunschweig. It was a big fight with a lot of action but on this day they were not able to score and therefore it was not possible to get anything there. At home today they want to give an answer to the last defeat and continue the way from last matches, they are 3-0-0 and 5-0 goals in their own stadium. The same eleven are ready, only Behrens is a big doubt after his knock out against Braunschweig with a head injury. For him Jungwirth is an option and maybe starts today. All in all Schuster expect a close and hard match, a typical Derby even.