MET IN THE PAST
- Eintracht won 50% of the 42 Bundesliga meetings with Düsseldorf (W21, D12, L9).
- Away to Fortuna the Eagles mustered 6 wins and 7 draws (8 defeats).
- SGE are unbeaten in 9 successive competitive matches against F95.
- Eintracht scored 2.3 goals on average per league match v Fortuna, 2nd most compared to their goals scored v the remaining current Bundesliga opponents.
- Once the Eagles scored the opener against Fortuna they never lost (21 wins, 4 draws).
- The last time SGE and F95 met in Bundesliga was in 1995/96 - the Eagles won 3-0 at home and drew 2-2 away.
- Last season both 2. Bundesliga meetings ended in 1-1 draws.
- The very first league match between the two was 4-2 away win of SGE in 1966/67 in which Grabowski, Friedrich and Lotz (2) scored.
- The Eagles have scored 95 league goals so far against "95".
THE SEASON TODAY
- Both Eintracht and Düsseldorf had a good start to the season with all-time records for promoted sides: SGE won their first 4 matches and Fortuna did not concede a single goal in their first 5 matches.
- Fortuna recorded the most draws this season (6).
- Only 3 teams collected less points at home than F95 so far in 2012/13 (W1, D4, L2 - 7 points).
- Eintracht never lost in any of their last 9 Friday night matches (across seasons).
- Eintracht created 28 'big chances' so far - twice as many as Fortuna (14) and on average scored nearly 1 goal more per match (SGE 1.93, F95 1.0).
Bundesliga debut v Mainz last Tuesday: Eintracht youngster Marc-Oliver Kempf
INDIVIDUALS
- Out of action: Pirmin Schwegler and Carlos Zambrano will miss the match due to match bans (5 YC each) as will Fortuna's Ivan Paurevic (2nd yellow card).
- Fortuna's Du-Ri Cha (son of the SGE legend Bum-Kun Cha) was at Eintracht between 2003 and 2006 (87 matches and 12 goals across leagues), Eintracht's Bamba Anderson was at Düsseldorf in 2009/10 (32 BL2 matches, 3 goals). Both are out with injuries though.
- 17 year old Marc-Oliver Kempf had his Bundesliga debut against Mainz on Tuesday, the Eintracht defender won an impressive 64% of his one on one duels.
- Fortuna's Robbie Kruse was involved in his team's last 5 goals.
- Eintracht’s midfielders Meier (9), Aigner (5) and Inui (3) managed to score more goals between them (17) than Düsseldorf scored altogether (14).
Sources: Impire -- Opta -- eintracht.de


