Stuttgart will be looking to continue their good form as they host Union Berlin in the DFB-Pokal Cup. The teams’ results in their Bundesliga matchup on October 21st, where Stuttgart prevailed 3-0. They have been very different throughout the first few months of the 2023–24 season.
Preview (Stuttgart vs. Union Berlin)
Since returning to the top division in 2020, Stuttgart has placed ninth, sixteenth, and sixteenth in the Bundesliga. However, the team has had a very successful start to the season. They are sitting in third place with 21 points from nine league games. The Reds have won seven league games this season. They lost 3-2 at home to Hoffenheim on Saturday. In their second DFB-Pokal match of the season, Sebastian Hoeness’s team will be looking to recover swiftly after defeating Balingen 4-0 in the previous round to advance.
Stuttgart will undoubtedly prioritize the league this season. They have actually won the German Cup three times, with their most recent victory occurring in 1996–97. The squad has also made it to three additional finals, losing to Bayern Munich in 2012–13. As previously noted, these two teams played each other in the Bundesliga on October 21. Stuttgart won 3-0. Given Union Berlin’s severe difficulties this season, the hosts are once again the favorites. Union Berlin had a fantastic 2022–2023 season, placing fourth in the Bundesliga. They earned a spot in the Champions League group stage for the first time ever.
The team is on a run of ten successive losses in all competitions, It including a 2-0 loss to Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga on Saturday. They have had an incredibly tough start to the season. With just six points from nine games, Urs Fischer’s team is ranked 15th in the Bundesliga. They have also lost their first three Champions League group-stage matches against Real Madrid, Braga, and Napoli.
Union Berlin really had a strong start to the season, winning three games in a row, including a 4-0 triumph against Astoria Walldorf in the last DFB-Pokal round. However, they haven’t won since the end of August, and the remaining fixtures aren’t exactly getting any easier. In fact, Die Eisernen, the 2001 German Cup runners-up, has three games remaining before the November international break against Eintracht Frankfurt, Napoli, and Bayer Leverkusen.
Team News
For Tuesday’s match, Stuttgart will be without three players due to injuries: Josh Vagnoman, Fabian Bredlow, and Serhou Guirassy. The team that opened the league season on Saturday will surely see changes under head coach Hoeness. Dan-Axel Zagadou, Jamie Leweling, Jovan Milosevic, and Lilian Egloff are among those anticipated to enter the game. Deniz Undav might play on in the last third of the field. There is also likely to be a change in the sticks. Meanwhile, because of his red card against Werder Bremen in the league on Saturday, Union Berlin will be missing Rani Khedira.
David Datro Fofana, the Chelsea attacker on loan, will also not play because his club suspended him for one week for refusing to shake his manager’s hand when he was substituted in the Champions League match against Napoli. In addition, three players for the cup match are sidelined due to injury: Danilho Doekhi, Mihail Juranovic, and Andrés Schafter are not eligible for selection on Tuesday night. It is hard to predict exactly what to anticipate from this match because both managers will rest key players, although Union Berlin’s performance has been really poor. Stuttgart will come into this match having lost, but we are betting on them to win by a slim margin in order to move on to the German Cup’s next round.
Stuttgart 2 – 1 Union Berlin
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