POSSIBLE LINE-UPS
EINTRACHT: Nikolov – Jung, Anderson, Butscher, Djakpa – Rode, Schwegler – Matmour, Meier, Köhler – Hoffer
Manager: Armin Veh
Close to suspension: Köhler (4), Matmour (4)
COTTBUS: Kirschbaum – Bittroff, Möhrle, Roger, Ziebig – Banovic, Kruska – Sörensen, Bittencourt, Adlung – Rangelov
Manager: Rudi Bommer
Missing: Brzenska, Cubukcu, Fandrich, Ludwig, Schorch
Close to suspension: Bittencourt (4), Roger (4), Rangelov (4)
ATTENDANCE
Over 30,000 tickets had been sold until late last week, 250 away supporters have purchased tickets so far.
LIVE MATCH COVERAGE
As always the match can be followed via the English LIVE text commentary on eintracht.de. All major events such as goals, shots, substitutions, cards, fouls, corners and offsides will be posted as and when they happen. Click HERE from kick-off onwards (Sunday at 13.30h CET).
COLOURS
The Eagles will play in red and black jerseys and black shorts, Energie in white.
ALL TIME RECORD
Eintracht are unbeaten against Cottbus in Bundesliga 2 (4 wins and 1 draw). The Eagles won 9 of 13 matches against FCE across competitions losing only twice. In the first leg this season Friend, Korkmaz and Idrissou scored when SGE celebrated a late comeback with a last minute equaliser.
FACTS
- Eintracht recorded only 3 defeats so far while Cottbus were beaten 10 times already.
- Energie's recent 2-0 win against Aue ended a run of 7 games without win. From the last 18 matches Cottbus collected only 15 points.
- The Eagles are the only team so far this season to score 3 goals or more on 10 occasions already.
- SGE have been in the 2. Bundesliga top 3 since matchday 9, they were top of the league twice.
- Only Fürth (53) scored more goals in 23 matchdays than Eintracht (52).
- Only Fürth and St. Pauli (14 each) recorded more wins than SGE (13), only Düsseldorf (2) suffered less defeats than Eintracht (3).
