Karlsruher SC - FC St. Pauli

The team from Baden Württemberg KSC started not very well into the season. It looks like that they have still to do with their harsh knock out against Hamburg where they was very close to promote but conceded in almost the last minute the goal who shocked them all. They was not ahead of their actions and lost deserved to Fürth 0-1 last weekend. Their opponent today St. Pauli saved them with a 5 games winning streak last season and they want continue the run anyway. Despite the good mood and self confidence from recent matches they could not feed it to the game against new promoted team from Bielefeld. The outcome was only a 0-0 draw in their new and very beautiful stadium now. Both teams want the first win this Season .......

Coach Kauczinski said that he was not very pleased with his team and the performance overall. They have to improve in some parts and have to work hard to get the job done today. Some of the parts were not able to harmonize well and this was seen in their play with a lot of mistakes anyway. It is very important to close all deficits to get a much better and more aggressiv performance on the pitch.
The next big blow this week was that central back Max left to Augsburg and allow Coach Kauczinski not to make some changes in defensive row. He wants to move Max from right to the left and let Kempe play on the right for him as with Trust, Bader and Valentini are three central back players are not available due to injuries. Of course, Kempe is set to play but he must replace Max now and this is not much easy at the moment with less alternatives. He has to search in his squad for some options. He has to in mind with Stoll and Dehm. The first has played already in Fürth but he is a solid worker in defensive but has not actions in offensive what help not much for the offensive play. The second one is an absolutely newcomer and he gives his debut if he is in the starting lineup. Not as easy as expected for the Coach.
All the other positions maybe remain the same in a 4-4-2 system but after the break in Fürth they changed to 4-2-3-1 what was the preferred one last Season. Of course Peitz can be an option for Krebs in central midfield but this would be the much more defensive tactic what is not welcome at home in their stadium. They have also good news because MID Yamada is back in team training and can be an option on bench right now. The other talents with Köpke and Mehlem are slight injured and it is not really out if they are on bench or not.

The team from Hamburg remember very well the last match in Karlsruher where they has not chance and lost in the end 0-3. It was very easy for KSC to overcome Pauli with their fast and excellent counter attacks. This time Pauli is aware of this situation and they have to find some instruments against this play. Coach Lienen said that they want to play a good game with attractive soccer but they have to build a compact team which are able to stop this fast actions from KSC. The word is compactness what they want to be today to hurt a chipped KSC team.
Lienen has to plan without Miyaichi who is long term injured and Buchtmann who has still some lag. But with Kalla returns a fighter into the squad and he should be ready as he played already 18 minutes against Bielefeld. But it is very open if he move into the starting lineup as with Nehrig they had a solid guy on the wing and he made his job very well. But he can changes a bit in midfield where Nehrig can replace Rzatkowski for a more defensive minded lineup and allow Kalla to start on the back wing then. The next option can be Kalla for Sobota in right midfield because Sobota had not his best day and produced an awful performance.