1.FC Kaiserslautern - Fortuna Düsseldorf

We have a top match ahead between Kaiserslautern and Fortuna Düsseldorf. Both are trying to get back in 1.Bundesliga and they are both on a good way so far. Düsseldorf 2nd and Kaiserslautern 3rd are close to the leader Ingolstadt. Lautern has a much better team as last season and they play really good, at home they are 5-0-0 but on the road they had less success and has not win there. If they start winning on the road too it would be an easy task for them to promote. But of course, it is a long way anyway. But the opponent is on a good way too and they have a very good run with 7 matches unbeaten and they collected 17 Points out of these matches. They are much stronger on the road because they players are more quick and fast and this is the reason for their success away from home. With Benshop, Hoffer, Pohjanpalo and Bolly they have almost sprinter in their rows. According to their good form they are aiming for the win at "Betzenberg".

Coach Runjaic was not very pleased with the last road performance. They had a lot of opportunities to decide the game early but they were not able, ok they took the lead but after a few minutes they conceded the equalizer and in the last minutes they had chances but the last shot was not good enough to bring the ball behind the line. He has to change a bit today according to the fifth yellow card from important central midfield player Karl in Heidenheim. He is suspended today and is a big miss for Lautern anyway. He plans with Jenssen and Ring in central midfield for this game and he hopes that this is a good choice he made. On the offensive wing we have an open position because Jenssen played last weekend there and this time it could be Matmour or Fomitschow. But also Stöger can play there and central in midfield move Demirbay into the starting lineup who plays behind Lakic then. This can be also an option. No more changes expected although almost all are available from the squad, only Musoga and Zellner are out beside Karl today.

After the 1-0 win and the move up to second position Düsseldorf is in their plan now. They have a lot of self confidence and they are doing very well, although the play against Pauli was not the best but this time they can play on the road what is the better place for them. Despite the good run Coach Reck is making an surprise change today. He rotate on keeper position and allow Unnerstall a game and put strong Rensing who played great in the last matches on the bench. This is a big risk before the top match today and no one understand this change but he has mentioned it already before the season that he change some time on this position as well. Again not available is defender Tah and for him plays Soares as against Pauli already. Also a big question mark is behind the offensive trio Liendl, Bellinghausen and Benschop who all had some problems during the week. It seems that Benschop is out with illness today, for him can play Halloran maybe. Also a change in attack is possible where the run from Pohjanpalo stops last monday with 6 goals in a row. For him is Hoffer an equal replacement and against his old club a good reason to put him into the starting lineup. Last season Fortuna won 1-0 there and Hoffer scored the winning goal. This is a good trick from Coach Reck and a good motivation for Hoffer too.