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Second semi-finals Cup brings us a less attractive duel, but it should certainly be very interesting, because both Schalke and Eintracht made a move this season in the championship. This particularly applies to Schalke, which is currently on the second place on the table and is close to ensuring placement in the Champions League, and eventually winning the Cup which would only spice up a successful season. Eintracht is a bit lazy in Bundesliga, but they can still get to Europa League, while they are for the second season in a row very successful in the Cup. These rivals played a duel this season in Frankfurt and it ended with a score of 2-2.

Schalke

Schalke is welcoming this duel in the Cup semi-finals in a good mood, because they have defeated their big rival Borussia Dortmund in the championship on Sunday with 2-0. Aside from the fact that it is always a great pleasure to defeat the neighbours, these three points have additionally strengthened them in the second place, and they have almost secured the placement in the Champions League for the next season and they will probably only have one victory in the remaining four rounds.

Their desire is to end up in second place and for something like that they will need a bit more points, but now all their strengths are focused on the Cup. They have a good opportunity to qualify in the finals because their rival is the weakest of all semi-finalists and will play in Gelsenkirchen. They cannot count on the injured Nastasic and Embolo , who did not play also against Borussia, while M.Meyer and Oczipka could jump in.

Probable lineups Schalke 04: Fahrmann – Stambouli, Naldo, Kehrer – D.Caligiuri, M.Meyer, Bentaleb, Oczipka – Harit, Goretzka – G.Burgstaller

Eintracht Frankfurt

Eintracht is in decline of form and this is not good before the Cup semi-finals, because they had big ambitions, and wanted to at least repeat the last season's performance when they played the finals, but lost from Borussia Dortmund. Eintracht's desire is also to be the best in the European Championship, and now they are not doing the best, because they are three rounds without a win, and that is why they were eliminated from the Champions League.

They lost the previous five matches and this is also bad news before the semi-finals of the Cup, where they did not have a tough path and their main rival was Mainz in the quarterfinals, but on the home field. Achieving the goals is not a problem, because they have scored at least once in the previous six matches. In the last round they even took the lead in Leverkusen, but then they lost in the end with 4-1. They were also bothered by the fact that coach Kovac went to Bayern at the end of the season, and he tried with Falette and G.Fernandes to refresh the team in Leverkusen. Now Russ comes back to the last line and Jovic at top of the attack.

Probable lineups Eintracht Frankfurt: Hradecky – Abraham, Hasebe, Russ – da Costa, de Guzman, Willems – M.Wolf, Boateng – Fabian – Jovic

Verdict:

Schalke is a favourite because they have a better team, they are in better shape and are the hosts, but Eintracht knows how to shine and when it is not expected, they score goals quite easily lately, so we expect them to do the same in Gelsenkirchen.

Pick: both teams to score 1.98 - 98/100 @1XBet