1.FC Nürnberg - SC Paderborn

After Nürnberg could beat 2 top teams with Braunschweig and St. Pauli they are very close to the top places. Only 2 Points behind third place let them dream for more. If they want to close the gap they should win this one and celebrate the third win in a row with their fans. But with Paderborn coming a team to Nürnberg who has not won in their last 4 and they are extremely motivated to turn things around. Their Coach Effenberg makes them hot and he wants to get out of the red zone.

With 6 unbeaten matches Nürnberg is getting closer to the top and at home they are still unbeaten with 4-4-0. Only top team and leader Freiburg has collected more Points at home as Nürnberg. They are very hard to beat in their own stadium and under Coach Weiler it happened only twice. 

For this encounter he has a big problem because the team did a great job against St. Pauli and played really great. They showed an excellent performance but their key player Burgstaller returns from suspension and it is not sure if he wants to miss his quality and fighting spirit in starting lineup. Although all three Schöpf, Leibold and Möhwald had a great performance in Hamburg it is not sure if all three starts again. One of these guys maybe sit on bench. It looks like that Möhwald rotates out and the system can be changed from 4-2-3-1 to 4-4-2. But it is also possible that Füllkrug plays behind the one striker Burgstaller.

After Effenberg starts in Paderborn he could bring his fire and courage in and he celebrated two wins in a row with his team but after these wins they are doing only average and the results are not in their favor right now. They are running behind their expectations and without winning one of the last 4 they fall down to 16. Place. At the moment they are more down as under former Coach Gellhaus. Effenberg has to change a lot and look forward to improve with his team. One of the key problems is the defensive work because with conceding twice 4 goals it is far away from good. And 3 of them against 1860 they concede with one man more on the pitch.

According to the defensive problems it is absolutely amazing that Effenberg does not change anything there. He said that only in central midfield Bakalorz returns and replace youngster Wydra and also in offensive where Proschwitz can play instead Lakic up front.