Energie Cottbus - MSV Duisburg

Two traditional team meet each other today. Both are normally sure 2.Bundesliga candidates but the recent years they have not done their home work and therefore they must play in 3.Bundesliga. Cottbus was not able to avoid relegation while MSV had a lot of financial problem years ago and got not license. Sooner or later both want back to 2.Bundesliga but it is a long and hard way above all in 3.Bundesliga where all can happen and it is only up to the daily form if you can win or not but the most important thing in this league is fighting fighting and fighting.

The goal from Cottbus is clear they want return immediately but this is a long way and they are not able to win much above all at home they had some problems. Overall they have 20 Points collected and they are close to the top what allow them to dream on. The last defeat before the break against a newcomer was not the best way what makes Coach Krämer very angry. He wants to see some reaction today and give the pressure to his team. On Friday they trained a lot of standard situations and hope that they can put some advantage out of it. They had a lot of scoring problems in the past matches anyway with one of the weakest offensive lines with only 13 goals scored in 13 matches. He said that he will give the squad only on match, sure is that Hübener, Wolf and Oberschmidt are not in the squad.  

MSV is on a good way since the defeat on Round 1 in Regensburg they are unbeaten in 12 of their matches now. This is a good sign anyway and they are on a good way to hold the aim alive. They want go back to 2.BL but the table shows it, a close season so far. With 24 Points they are in the group behind leader Wehen. If they want to hold this they have to continue the run. With Hajri they miss the central midfield player due to his fifth yellow card today. For him Bohl move forward while Schorch can play in central back for him. One good news is that top scorer Janjic is back after injury and he is ready to play as he did already in Cup under the week and he was very pleased with his 90 minutes there. So Duisburg is prepared for this match and they looking forward to get here some.

Close match with two big giants in this league but I see some advantage for MSV here.

Recommend PICK: MSV Duisburg AHC +0,25 @ 1,92 (3 Units)