Two struggling teams searching for their form
TEAM NEWS
Union Berlin are missing
Kenny Prince Redondo, Michael Parensen and Fabian Schonheim due to injury.
Ingolstadt have a full
squad available, Coach Stefan Leitl miss only defender Romain Bregerie injured.
Union Berlin
Suspended: None
Doubtful: None
Injured/unavailable: Fabian
Schonheim, Kenny Prince Redondo (both knee); Michael Parensen (calf)
Ingolstadt
Suspended: None
Doubtful: None
Injured/unavailable: Romain
Bregerie (calf)
MATCH PREVIEW
MAIN PREDICTION: DRAW
Coach Andre Hofschneider
had a miserable debut at Union Berlin last weekend. His men lost the derby
against Dresden 1-0, but despite being on a four-match winless run they are
still fourth. The new man in charge already finds himself under pressure and
following their latest results, he will need to line up a compact XI who will
fight from the beginning to secure a good result against promotion rivals
Ingolstadt.
Ingolstadt were lucky
enough to find a single goal against bottom-of-the-table Kaiserslautern during
their 1-1 away draw last Sunday. Although they were the better side and had
more than 60% ball possession they almost ended up with their seventh defeat of
the season, which would have put them nine points behind third place. The match
against Union Berlin is a very important one and it would be a good opportunity
for them to move closer to the top before the winter break.
Neither team have been on
their best of form recently and a lot speaks for a draws here. Three of their
latest four meetings have also shown the same outcome, so I’ll predict this to
end all square.
SECOND PREDICTION: FIRST TEAM TO SCORE – INGOLSTADT
Union Berlin have been the
first team to concede in all of their last five home matches against
Ingolstadt. I think this trend is likely to continue and they should be the
first to concede again.
HEAD TO HEAD
Union Berlin have hosted
Ingolstadt five times in the 2. Bundesliga over the course of the past seven
years, winning once and drawing four times.
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