The Monday game takes place on „Betzenberg“, between Kaiserslautern and Paderborn. The start from Kaiserslautern into the Season was euphoric with a 3-1 win against weak MSV but the following matches were not like they expected. Of course they are unbeaten so far but the outcome with only two draws against Braunschweig 0-0 and Union 2-2 were not like their ambitions above all the performances were average. Today’s opponent has much more problems right now after relegation. With many changes the team has to find themselves and this need some time. The result showed that they have a lot of work to do and a long way to go. The 0-1 was not such a disaster in the first game to Bochum because they managed to get the three Points in Düsseldorf. But the last game home game to Sandhausen 0-6 was one of the biggest disaster for Paderborn right now. They have lost this game of course but the performance was by far one of the biggest blows for them.
Apart from the first game to MSV, Kaiserslautern maybe faces the same problem as last season. They are to harmless in front of the goal and are not able to finish their offensive actions. But Coach Runjaic said that he has seen some other points he wants to work on. The defense allows too many and they defending not like he means that they are get stability in this part. The main thing is the defensive work and in this case Runjaic counts on three defensive midfield players with Karl, Ring and Ziegler who came from Paderborn. Ring is more offensive minded from these three while Ziegler should help with his fighting spirit to be as compact as they can. The defensive line remains unchanged if Zimmer and Heubach are ready to play according to their slight injuries. If not, replacements can be Mockenhaupt or Schindele.
The offensive part has to improve if they want to win matches again, above all Przybylko had only one good game in Duisburg. The other were maybe average, Halfar is the next offensive one who should start while Jenssen make some self advertising with his goal against Union. Nevertheless FCK is still searching for a new striker to get more power in their offensive play.
Paderborns Coach Gellhaus does not want to talk from the game against Sandhausen anymore. He wants to look forward and give his team the right things on hand to be successful in the upcoming matches. These are “Readiness for action, passion and fighting power”. If they bring all these to 100% on the pitch, they should be successful. If Gellhaus counts on the same starting lineup is very impossible. He plans some changes for sure, but the alternatives are less, above all in defense. After Hoheneder was sent off he is suspended for this game and Hünemeier was sold to England, therefore he has only 2 defenders left. But nevertheless he was not very pleased with Lopez trainings activity and strokes him for today’s game. Only Ruck remains, but who should play beside him? All is open and also possible. Maybe Wydra who started in midfield last time move back and get the place in central back. In this case Ndjeng can play in central midfield while Koc move on the offensive wing. Also possible is that Stoppelkamp replace Quali who was far from good recently.
The offensive play maybe gets a new impulse with the new signing Bickel who came form Hansa Rostock and could convince already in the training sessions. For him must one of the attackers on bench. The trend goes to Saglik because Proschwitz has some open bills with Kaiserslautern and he should be huge motivated today. He wants to show Kaiserslautern that it was the wrong decision to gave him no contract some years ago.
Overall both teams are fighting hard to get out of the negative trend but of course all is possible in this close league. We think that Kaiserslautern on home soil maybe has some advantage with the crowd in back ……
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