DUSSELDORF VS BOCHUM PREVIEW & PREDICTION
The 29th round of the 2nd Bundesliga will open on Friday evening with two games. In a match, leaders Fortuna Dusseldorf welcomes VfL Bochum. The Fortuna suffered a setback in the promotion race on Monday night. Despite a 45-minute majority Dusseldorf lost 0: 1 in the relegation threatened Darmstadt. Six games left. In the last six games of the first round, the Fortuna was very difficult and only brought three counters.
If you score similarly few points against the same opponents in the second half of the season, you can be close again in the promotion race. Bochum is the team of the hour in the second division. Under coach Robin Dutt, VfL have scored 14 points from their last seven games and were able to advance from 15th place to eighth place within two matchdays. But in the crazy league, the VfL has only four points ahead of relegation place 16th With 37 counters but also missing only three points to the magic “40-point mark”.
Dusseldorf:
Coach Friedhelm Funkel attested to his team that they did everything, especially in the second half in Darmstadt, to reverse the gap behind Tobias Kempes goal. But there are days when the ball simply does not want to hit the goal. The league leaders had many best chances to score. But I did not act lightly. After three consecutive wins, F95 suffered another defeat. Dusseldorf currently has 53 points and still eight points ahead of Holstein Kiel and the relegation place. With two draws, the competition from Nuremberg and Kiel, the blunder of the championship leader could not really exploit. Coach Funkel warns against negligence.
With 30 points from 14 games Fortuna is the strongest home team in the league. In the domestic Esprit Arena there were only two defeats. In the second half, the Dusseldorf are still undefeated at home. From the recent five home games F95 took 13 points. The team of coach Funkel had problems last time on the defensive: The team has always conceded at least one goal in the last 7 games. Lukas Schmitz is missing because of a toe fracture on the left foot. Benito Rahman and André Hoffmann are questionable. After their yellow card suspension in Darmstadt return full back Niko Gießelmann and Adam Bodzek back into the squad.
Bochum:
On February 12, Robin Dutt took over the coaching office in Bochum. The former DFB sports director is already the fourth coach in Bochum this season. For Dutt Bochum is the first coaching station since he was released on 25 October 2014 at Werder Bremen. It seems that the former VfB sports director has used his free time well. With him, it’s finally up at VfL. Only in the first game as VfL coach Dutt suffered a defeat (0: 1 against Heidenheim). On the final day of play there was a 2-0 home defeat against Braunschweig, so the Bochum have been unbeaten in five games (3/2/0). The coach praised once again the good balance between own possession and a good mentality against Eintracht. In top form is striker Lukas Hinterseer, who has scored five times in the last two games. In the second half of the Austrian is already at seven goals. With a total of eleven goals Hinterseer is in the second league scorers list in fifth place.
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1.70
