These two teams are heading for European positions by the end of the season and for now, Eintracht is better in this fight because they are sixth with three points more than Hoffenheim, which is just one position below. Depending on the development of the Cup situation, where Eintracht is still present, maybe that seventh position brings placement in Europa League. However, both teams are not giving up on the opportunity to make a choice for the Champions League, which is why this duel is important. Hoffenheim is in better form with five defeats, while Eintracht plays in the rhythm of one victory and one defeat. In the first part of the season it was 1-1 in their mutual duel.
Eintracht continues with the changeable results lately, so the victories and defeats continue to intertwine, and there are only no unresolved results. Eintracht wins when they are playing at their stadium and they have five short triumphs, while they lost at the previous four appearances. Since they are now again on their field, they want to continue that trend, though the rival is very unpleasant and in good shape, and the team from Frankfurter does not like when they meet.
After an unlucky defeat in Dortmund, they managed to defeat Mainz in a smooth and overwhelming way, while they lost in the last round in Bremen. Coach Kovac was forced to make changes due to Willems’ injury so he decided on a different formation with four players in the last line, without Falette, while Russ and Chandler jumped instead. Now Rebic will not be in the team due to injury and Fabian is his replacement.
Probable lineups Eintracht Frankfurt: Hradecky – Russ, Hasebe, Abraham – da Costa, de Guzman, Chandler – M.Wolf, Boateng – Fabian – Jovic
Hoffenheim has finally caught a good form and this team now provides the games that look like those from the most part of last season. As a fruit of a good game, a series of five defeats was made, of which three were victories. They made them without any goals, and at the same time they scored 11, while there was one draw in that series that was played against Borussia in M'gladbach with a score of 3-3 and it is clear that the strikers are very much in the mood. A special story is a duel in the last round when they mastered Cologne with 6-0.
Gnabry was in great shape, but Uth also joined the team, while Kramaric was good at earlier matches. It is a great thing that they are so efficient when it is known that they have remained without Wagner in the winter transitional period. After losing a chance to win in the last minute in M’gladbach, coach Nagelsmann made two changes, so Polanski and Nad.Amiri remained on the bench, and Rupp and Uth played instead, which was a great decision. After a convincing victory, there will not be any changes this time.
Probable lineups 1899 Hoffenheim: Baumann – Akpoguma, Vogt, B.Hubner – Kaderabek, N.Schulz – Grillitsch, Rupp – Kramaric, Gnabry – Uth
In total, Eintracht has showed more, and now they are the hosts, where they are playing great lately. Still, Hoffenheim has really started playing great lately, especially in attack, so we expect goals in both networks.
Pick: both teams to score
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