The first round of the 2nd Bundesliga will end on Monday, when Dresden and Duisburg will meet starting at 19:30. The match will take place on “Dresden Stadium”.
Although they have hardly been relegated to the previous season, the hosts have chosen to continue to work with the technician Uwe Neuhaus, who prepares the team in the summer of 2015. Baris Atik (Hoffenheim), Linus Wahlqvist (Norrkoping) , Jannis Nikolaou (Wurz.Kickers), and Tim Boss from Cologne. On the other hand, it is worth mentioning only Niklas Hauptmann, who will dress FC Toulouse’s shirt. The friendly match results oscillating from the victories with Chemnitzer and Zwickau, at defeats with Aston Villa and Kaiserslautern, with the same score of 1-2.
On the other hand, the guests ended the previous season on the 7th position, but on the draw with Bielefeld, occupying the 4th place. Out of the 48 points accumulated, 25 were won on a foreign field, where they managed seven victories. In the last two friendly games, Duisburg drew both Fiorentina (0-0) and Ath.Bilbao (1-1). Ilia Gruev avoided investing in transfers, bringing only players free of charge. Sukta-Pasu (Sandhausen), John Verhoek (Heidemheim), Young-jae (Hamburg II), Sebastian Neumann (Wuez.Kickers), Daniel Mesenholer (Union Berlin0 and Josepg-Claude this season.
In the last direct confrontation, disputed in December 2017, Duisburg was forced to score 2-0. It was only the second success in the last seven straight games. Only in one of these games the table suffered more than two changes.
PREDICTION: Under 2.5 goals @ 1.80
