In the epilogue of the 14th round of the Bundesliga, on Sunday, December 9th, Borussia M’Gladbach – VfL Stuttgart will be played. The match will take place on “Borussia-Park”, starting at 17:00. The hosts are trying to come back after defeating Leipzig.
The second offensive in the Bundesliga, 30 goals scored in 13 stages, did not prove to be too efficient in the Leipzig move. Although they dominated the possession chapter and created some good opportunities, the “fangs” finally gave up with the score of 0-2. It was only for the second time in the 15 games played this season, when Hazard & co. they did not find the way to the opposing goal. Along with Plea, Hazard is the top scorer of the team with 8 successes. Now at seven points behind the leader, Borussia tries to continue the course perfectly from home. If it succeeds in imposing and Sunday will reach 10 consecutive wins on “Borussia-Park”, which has not happened since the days of Andre Schubert, in the period from February to September 2016. Dieter Hecking can not count on Doucoure , Ginter and Hofmann (injured).
On the other hand, unlike his opponent, VfL has the weakest offensive in the Bundesliga, only nine scored goals. Three of them came in the last three stages when the Swabians won two victories: 2-0 with Nurnberg and 1-0 with Augsburg. With these victories were close to leave the red zone of the league, being on equal points with Nuremberg, ranked 15. No Ascacibar, Ozcan and Sosa (injured), remains to be seen if the band’s Markus Weinzierl will elicit a of this difficult move.
Probable teams:
M’Gladbach: Sommer – Lang, Elvedi, Jantschke, Wendt – Neuhaus, Strobl, Zakaria – Hazard, Stindl (c), Plea
Stuttgart: Zieler – Baumgartl, Pavard, Badstuber – Beck, Gentner (c), Aogo, Insua – Donis, Gonzalez – Gomez
In the last direct confrontation, disputed in February, Stuttgart was forced to score 1-0. It was the only success in the last nine straight games. Only in two of these games the table has undergone more than two changes.
PREDICTION: B. Monchengladbach to win @ 1.49
