Match Facts
- Eintracht won the 1st round match away against Bremer SV 3-0. Castaignos, Aigner and Waldschmidt scored the goals.
- Erzgebirge Aue - currently in the third division "3. Liga" - eliminated Greuther Fürth (2. Bundesliga) in a surprise 1-0 win in the first round of this campaign.
- SGE travelled to Aue for the first DFB Cup round in 2012/13 and suffered a painful 3-0 defeat back then.
- SGE and Aue met 4 times in Bundesliga 2 with the Eagles winning all 4 (13-1 goals).
Competition Facts
(via dfb.de)
- Schedule: On both Tuesday and Wednesday, 4 games will kick off at 19:00 CET, and 4 at 20:30 CET.
- Teams involved: 15 of the 18 Bundesliga teams have managed to progress to the next round. Five 2. Bundesliga teams join these 15 in the 2nd round and Erzgebirge Aue are the only team from the 3rd division to have made it. Meanwhile, Viktoria Köln, SpVgg Unterhaching and Carl Zeiss Jena from the Regionalliga have progressed, along with Oberliga side SSV Reutlingen.
- Goalscorers: Before this round of the cup, perhaps one of the most talked about people was Guiseppe Ricciardi, the defensive midfielder from SSV Reutlingen, who scored a hat-trick in the match against Karlsruher SC, which granted his team entry to this round. Anthony Modeste of Köln and Simon Terodde of VfL Bochum also both scored hat-tricks in their previous cup games. Nils Petersen, however, went one better than the rest, the striker from Freiburg scoring 4 goals in a 5-0 win over HSV Barmbek-Uhlenhorst. Sven Schipplock and Stefan Kießling were joint top goalscorers in the competition last season, netting 6 times each. The all-time top goalscorer is, of course, Gerd Müller - "The Bomber" scored an incredible 78 goals in 62 cup matches. Claudio Pizarro of Werder Bremen is the player with the most goals who is still active (28).
- Fixtures: In the 16 upcoming games, 4 will be all-Bundesliga battles. The title holders Wolfsburg face Bayern Munich, Borussia Mönchengladbach travel to Schalke, Werder Bremen host Köln and Darmstadt meet Hannover. 4 Bundesliga teams have been drawn against Bundesliga 2 teams; FSV Frankfurt against Hertha, Mainz against 1860 Munich, Borussia Dortmund against Paderborn and Freiburg against Augsburg. Bayer Leverkusen and Viktoria Köln will play in what promises to be an explosive mini Rhine derby. 2 teams from Baden-Württemburg, SV Sandhausen and Heidenheim will battle it out for entry to the quarter-finals. In Bundesliga 2 duels, Nürnberg face Fortuna Düsseldorf and Kaiserslautern face VfL Bochum. In other fixtures, Erzgebirge Aue play Eintracht Frankfurt, Carl Zeiss Jena play VfB Stuttgart and SpVgg Unterhaching face RB Leipzig.
- Draw: The 2nd round is about to be played, but already, the quarter-finals are casting their shadow. The games will be played on the 15th and 16th December. On Sunday 1st November, the draw will be held.
- Title holders: VfL Wolfsburg beat Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in the final of last year’s DFB Cup. Aubameyang put Dortmund into the lead, but goals from Luiz Gustavo, Kevin De Bruyne and Bas Dost won the Wolves their first ever domestic cup.
