Greuther Fürth - FC Ingolstadt 04

Ingolstadt to secure first win on the road

TEAM NEWS

Greuther Furth have signed Kevin Prince Redondo from Union Berlin while Roberto Hilbert have left the club. Yosuke Ideguchi and Tobias Mohr won't feature because of injury.

Ingolstadt have signed a new keeper with Philipp Tschauner from Hannover and defender Mergim Mavraj from Saloniki. They will not have available for the derby against Furth Joey Breitfeld, Frederic Ananoou, Mergim Mavraj.

Greuther Furth

Suspended: None

Doubtful: None

Injured/unavailable: Yosuke Ideguchi, Tobias Mohr (both knee); 

Ingolstadt

Suspended: None

Doubtful: None

Injured/unavailable: Joey Breitfeld (knee); Frederic Ananou (shoulder), Mergim Mavraj (hand)

MATCH PREVIEW

MAIN PREDICTION: AWAY WIN  

Greuther Furth have failed to kick on from their 3-2 win over bottom side Magdeburg two month ago, taking just one point from their last four league games, drawing one and losing three. Before the winter break they stopped the negative run from three defeats in a row with a 0-0 draw at weak Sandhausen. However, the Shamrock have kick off the campaign in excellent style but failed to keep this good form at the end of the year.

Ingolstadt have been struggling big time of late and are coming off a 2-1 defeat in Bavarian derby against Jahn Regensburg. Since beating Aue 1-0 at home back in August, the Schanzer have gone over four month without a win, losing nine and drawing five of their last 14 in Germany’s second tier. As a consequence of their woeful run of form, Ingolstadt now find themselves at the bottom of the table.

This promises to be a very hard fight between two teams who are struggling for form in Germany’s second tier at the moment. But I can see Ingolstadt to come out and claim an important win after the winter-break.

SECOND PREDICTION: CORRECT SCORE – 0-1

Ingolstadt have won the last four league meetings at Greuther Furth, three of them with exactly 1-0. Have a punt on one goal to be scored in Ingolstadt’s favour this weekend.

HEAD TO HEAD

Greuther Furth have not won against Ingolstadt on home soil since 2011. The last three matches were all lost with exactly 1-0.