Eintracht Braunschweig - Union Berlin

After a six match winning streak Eintracht Braunschweig lost last weekend to Karlsruhe 0-1 but they want to hold the pressure on the other teams high and therefore they have to return on winning way today. The task is not as easy as they mean because with Union they face a team who has an uptrend in the last matches and they came to Braunschweig with two wins in a row in their bag. For Union it is important to walk on and get as much Points as they can to hold the distance big to the red zone.

Compared to the last match in Karlsruhe, Coach Lieberknecht plans no changes although some of his offensive players did not convince much. There is a lot to improve above all the attacker duo Nielsen and Ryu missed all in the last game and therefore they were not able to score in this encounter. Nevertheless Nielsen is set to play anyway while Ryu has good performances in the past and he got the trust from Coach now. This means both Kruppke and Bakenga sit on bench again but they hope for some minutes and maybe for some good actions if they are on the pitch to help the team and make some noise. Good news for Lieberknecht as well is that Hochscheidt returns first time after his injury on Round 1 into the squad and gives him some options more. Of course he is not really ready but he is there again.

Union is doing well in the past matches but they have to change here because with Leistner they have one player suspended and his position in central back plays Schönheim today. He know this very well, was he the guy who played there for long time after Leistner overcomes him. The other things are all speaking for the same lineup as last weekend although the coach talk in an interview about 3 attackers what is a bit to much maybe. This means that Brandy comes into the starting lineup after his illness and suspension and let Quiring move on the wing. But it speaks more that he is on bench first as with Polter and Skryzbski they have two inform strikers at the moment and they are hard to replace if you take last performances.