On Tuesday, starting with 19:00, the Braunschweig – Dortmund match will be played, within the 16th round of the German Cup. Dortmund won two of the 3 clashes with Braunschweig, but the two teams have not met since January 2014.
Braunschweig, 15th place in the Zweite Bundesliga, just lost at home to Furth, score 0-3 without any reply from the hosts. The team coached by Peter Vollmann lost 7 of the 13 stages of the season and accumulated only 12 points, being with only one point over Sandhausen, which is on the dam position for maintaining the second German football echelon. Braunschweig gave a real recital in the first round of the German Cup, eliminating Hertha Berlin, a Bundesliga group, with a mind-boggling 5-4 at home.
Dortmund showed good signs in the first match with interim Edin Terzic on the bench, a 2-1 victory in Bremen, but the miracle did not last. The “yellow-blacks” lost at the weekend on the field of Union Berlin, score 1-2, slipping to 5th place in the Bundesliga standings, 8 points away from the Bayern leader. In the first match of the German Cup, Dortmund had no problems in winning 5-0 on the field of the third division, Duisburg.
In the absence of Erling-Braut Haaland, Dortmund’s offensive will be led by Youssoufa Moukoko (16 years old), Terzic’s weakness. Despite all the problems, the difference in value is clearly favorable to the guests, who promise a real recital at Braunschweig’s gate.
Dortmund won in two of the 3 direct matches;
All 3 previous direct meetings were for “GG”;
Dortmund have lost two of the last 3 stages in the Bundesliga;
Braunschweig: Dornebusch – Ziegele, Wydra, Nikolaou – Wieber, Kroos, Ben Balla, Schlüter – Kobylanski (c) – Kaufmann, Proschwitz
Absent: Bürger, Kessel, Kijewski
Coach: Daniel Meyer
Dortmund: Words – Morey, Akanji, Hummels, Guerrero – Bellingham, Witsel – Sancho, Reus (c), Reyna – Moukoko
Absent: Haaland, Schmelzer
Coach: Edin Terzic
PREDICTION: Over 3,5 goals @ 1,71
