POSSIBLE LINE-UPS
EINTRACHT: Nikolov – Jung, Anderson, Schildenfeld, Djakpa – Schwegler – Rode, Köhler – Meier – Hoffer, Idrissou
Manager: Armin Veh
Close to suspension: Köhler (4), Matmour (4)
Dresden: Kirsten – Gueye, Jungwirth, Savic, Schuppan – Koch, Solga, Fie, Trojan – Poté, Dedic
Manager: Ralf Loose
Missing: Eilhoff, Hesl, Bregerie, Franke, Heller
ATTENDANCE
Around 35,800 tickets have been sold so far. Dynamo Dresden have been penalized with a crowd ban by German football association DFB for this match.
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 (Friday at 18h CET).
COLOURS
The Eagles will play in red and black jerseys and black shorts. Dresden will play in yellow and white.
ALL TME RECORD
Previously to the first leg this season there were only 2 meetings in Bundesliga 2 so far, both won 2-1 by the home team. Eintracht won the away match this season 4-1 with both Idrissou and Gekas scoring a brace each. In the top flight Eintracht won 6 of 8 meetings.
FACTS
- Eintracht won 15 matches and collected 52 points – their best 2. Bundesliga season ever.
- The Eagles scored the most goals in Bundesliga 2 – 58. In Germany’s top 3 divisions only Bayern München scored as many.
- 6 times Eintracht came back from being 1-0 down – 3 wins and 3 draws. They also are the only team to score 3 or more goals on 11 occasions already.
- Dresden only lost 1 of their last 9 league games. In the second season half only Fürth, Paderborn and 1860 collected more points than Dynamo (15).
- Dresden did not concede a goal in their last 3 matches.
