The Preview

Borussia are currently ranked rock bottom of the Bundesliga standings with half as many points (13) as Eintracht (26). But 10 of these 13 points they collected away from home. The Eagles are looking to secure the first league win in 2011, kick off will be on Sunday at 17.30h CET.

Compared to last Friday's game away to Hamburg various key players are likely to come back. Schwegler - who was out with a yellow card ban - will play in midfield again, the defense might be strengthened by the return of Franz and maybe Russ. Theofanis Gekas suffered a minor injury in the week and might be out of action on Sunday.

POSSIBLE LINE-UPS

EINTRACHT: Nikolov – Jung, Franz, Clark (Russ), Tzavellas – Schwegler, Köhler – Ochs, Meier, Altintop – Fenin.

M‘GLADBACH: Heimeroth – Levels, Stranzl, Dante, Daems – Nordtveit, Neustädter – Matmour, Idrissou – Reus, Hanke.

ATTENDANCE

Around 45,000 are expected on Sunday afternoon in the Commerzbank Arena. Remaining tickets will be available at the stadium’s ticket offices from 15:30h onwards.

COLOURS

Eintracht will play in traditional black and red, Gladbach in white.

Selected international broadcasters will show the game on Sunday. To find out about Bundesliga TV channels outside Germany click HERE.

ENGLISH LIVE COMMENTARY

As always you can follow all the action of Eintracht’s match on Sunday LIVE on www.eintracht.de. The English language live text commentary will update you on goals, shots, free-kicks, offsides, corners, substitutions and more as and when they happen. Click HERE from kick off onwards.

WEATHER

The forecast announced cloudless skies and highs at around 2 degrees Celsius in Frankfurt on Sunday.

RECENT MEETINGS

The Eagles won the away game this season (4-0) with goals of Koehler, Ochs and Gekas (2). Last season Borussia managed a 2-1 at the Commerzbank Arena.

FACTS & FIGURES

Frankfurt have won 20 of their 37 Bundesliga home meetings with Gladbach, losing just eight (nine draws).
Frankfurt have won more Bundesliga games against Gladbach than against any other team (30).
In this season’s meeting between the two teams at Gladbach, Frankfurt enjoyed their biggest Bundesliga away victory in 16 years when they beat the home side 4-0.
Gladbach have won five of their last 10 BL away games at Frankfurt (one draw, four losses).
Mönchengladbach have lost seven of their last eight matches in all competitions (one win).