20:05
Spring is slowly arriving in Bavaria, too. In Augsburg, temperatures are still around 16 degrees Celsius late at night. So everything is ready for a thrilling Swabian duel under floodlights!
19:56
VfB won the first leg 2-1. After an early deficit by Florian Niederlechner, Serhou Guirassy and Waldemar Anton turned the game around. In general, Augsburg is the favorite opponent of Baden-Württemberg: Stuttgart has only won four games against FCA since they were promoted again in 2020.
19:50
After FCA conceded all three goals in Leipzig before the half-time break, Enrico Maaßen is trying a more offensive approach today: For the yellow carded Jeffrey Gouweleeuw and Robert Gumny, with Ermedin Demirović and Ruben Vargas, clearly more offensive-oriented players are allowed to play. On the VfB side, only Hiroki Ito will start in place of the suspended Konstantinos Mavropanos.
19:46
The form curve of FC Augsburg runs in the opposite direction: The Fuggerstadt team have been waiting for a threesome for five Bundesliga games and have not been able to win the direct duels against Schalke and Cologne. This is why Augsburg and Stuttgart are only five points apart in the table. VfB also has the slightly better goal difference.
19:43
Hoeneß was already a complete success on his debut, with a 1-0 win against Nuremberg, VfB made it into the DFB Cup semi-finals again after ten years. A few days later followed with a 3:2 in Bochum, the first away win in a year and four months. Last weekend Dortmund took a point despite being outnumbered.
19:38
Coach changes during the current season are always a topic of conversation, just look at Munich. VfB Stuttgart have already resorted to this method twice this season: Pellegrino Matarazzo was followed by Bruno Labbadia and Labbadia was most recently followed by Sebastian Hoeneß. At least the second change of coach seems to have paid off, VfB haven’t lost a game under Hoeneß.
19:31
Relegation duel in Augsburg! FCA welcomes VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga relegation battle. It starts at 8:30 p.m. in the WWK Arena!