In the opening of the 8th round of the Bundesliga on Friday, October 19th, the Eintracht Frankfurt – Fortuna Dusseldorf will be held. The confrontation will take place on “Commerzbank-Arena”, starting at 19:30. The guest band is trying to score the series of three consecutive defeats.
The hosts are playing the first chance in this game, after having won in the last two games with Hannover and Hoffenheim. Among these, the “eagles” also achieved an important success in the Europa League, against Lazio, score 4-1. Thus, they have overcome the less successful season start and seem ready to go back to the European Cups. However, the mission on Friday will be hindered by the absence of Ante Rebic, who scored in each of the last three stages. Most likely, his place will be taken offensive by Luka Jovic. Besides Rebic (suspended), Adi Hutter will not be able to count on the services of Chandler, Geraldes, Paciencia and Salcedo (injured).
On the other side, the guests tackle the confrontation with morale to the ground. The Bundesliga rivals seem too harsh for the small Dusseldorf formation, which comes after a series of three consecutive defeats. With just five points accumulating in the last seven stages this season, he is ranked 17th in the standings. Clearly, Fortuna wishes to leave the red area as quickly as possible, but in the previous three games it scored only one goal. Thus, faced with a number of problems, Contento, Fink, Hoffmann, Karaman, Wolf and Wiesner are injured, it seems unlikely he will be able to hit the Commerzbank-Arena.
In the last direct confrontation disputed in the spring of 2013, Frankfurt beat the score of 3-1. It was the 22th success achieved in the 44 direct matches disputed in the Bundesliga. Fortuna’s latest success dates back 39 years ago.
Probable teams:
Frankfurt: Trapp – Da Costa, Abraham (c), Russ, N’Dicka – Fernandes, De Guzman, Gacinovic, Kostic – Jovic, Haller
Fortuna: Rensing – Zimmer, Ayman, Bodzek (c), Kaminski, Gießelmann – Morales, Sobottka – Zimmermann, Raman – Hennings
PREDICTION: Eintracht Frankfurt to win @ 1.68
