On Sunday, starting with 14:30, the Augsburg – Stuttgart match will be played, within the 15th round of the Bundesliga. Augsburg won 6-0 in the last live match, but are without a win in the previous 12 duels with newly promoted teams in the Bundesliga. In the 2018/2019 season, Augsburg won 6-0 at home, but lost to Stuttgart, score 0-1.
Augsburg got two precious victories away from Bielefeld and Cologne, both 1-0, reaching 19 points this season. The Bavarian team occupies the 10th place in the Bundesliga, being sheltered by 9 points against Bielefeld, which is in a position of dam for maintenance. Heiko Herrlich’s students ticked only 8 points in the matches played on their own field, but there are 7 other teams with a weak record in this hierarchy, 4 of them even without a victory.
Instead, Stuttgart has a draw and two defeats in the last 3 stages, being on a downward slope after the start of the fulminating season. The newly promoted team lost to Wolfsburg and Leipzig, both 0-1, remaining with 18 points in the first 14 stages. The team coached by the American Pellegrino Matarazzo is on the 11th place in the Bundesliga, at one point from Augsburg, and with a victory in Bavaria it will make the cast with the hosts. On the road, Stuttgart has only one defeat, 14 points accumulated and is surpassed only by Bayern and Leverkusen!
Augsburg won 6-0 in the last direct meeting;
Augsburg is without victory of 12 matches with the newly promoted teams;
Stuttgart won only two of the 7 trips to Augsburg, which they won 5 times;
Augsburg: Gikiewicz – Oxford, Khedira, Uduokhai – Caligiuri (c), Strobl, Gruezo, Iago – Richter, Vargas – Niederlechner
Absent: Bazee, Finnbogason, Gouweleeuw, Framberger, Jensen, Moravek
Coach: Heiko Herrlich
Stuttgart: Kobel – Mavropanos, Anton, Kempf – Silas, Endo, Mangala, Sosa – Castro (c), Gonzalez – Kalajdzic
Absent: Al Ghaddioui, Mola, Thommy
Coach: Pellegrino Matarazzo
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1,54
