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For more than a year, the FC Augsburg hour has come on Friday evenings. Coach Enrico Maaßen says: “We actually noticed from our victories that they rarely happen in the 3:30 p.m. games” – instead quite reliably at 8:30 p.m. at the start of the weekend. That applies at least to the last five games on Friday, as a look at the TM database shows. However, it can also be read there that historically at this kick-off time there was no noticeable winning streak for FCA.
On February 17, FCA will have the next opportunity to extend their Friday series, which began on November 19, 2021 with a 2-1 home win against FC Bayern and then went on to three away wins in Cologne (2-0), Bielefeld (1 :0) and Bremen (1:0) developed into a row of five with another win at home against Leverkusen (1:0). “But it can’t really be explained” for Maassen. “I hope it’s coincidence.”
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The coach could be right with the assumption given the FCA’s previous record on Friday evenings. Since being promoted to the Bundesliga in 2012, the Bavarian Swabians have played 32 times in the upper house on a Friday evening. There were 17 defeats and six draws. That means: Before the current winning streak, the Augsburgers could only score three points four times in the ten years of the Bundesliga up to that point on a Friday. As Maassen and the FCA officials also found out, the record in 15:30 games looks almost even poorer.
Next FCA Friday win against Hoffenheim? TSG fights against negative series
Of course, Maassen would not mind if the sixth Augsburg Friday game were won in a row. Under his aegis during the current season, a 1-0 win at Werder under floodlights on Friday and Friday’s third 1-0 win in a row after attacker Mergim Berisha’s header in the last home game against Bayer 04 two weeks ago.
Opponent Hoffenheim is struggling with another series, and a negative one at that: TSG has been without a win for ten league games. When coach Pellegrino Matarazzo made his debut a week ago, he lost 3-1 against Leverkusen. “They are not in a good phase,” said Maassen about the opponent. However, Matarazzo now had a week to make adjustments. At FCA, midfielder Niklas Dorsch will be out due to illness.
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