The Preview

It is again ‘all or nothing’ for the Eagles in tomorrow’s game away to Schalke 04 (kick-off 15.30h). No other Bundesliga team scored less goals than Schalke (4) and Eintracht (0) in 2011. With a win Eintracht would move past ‚The Blues’ in the standings.

POSSIBLE LINE-UPS

EINTRACHT: Fährmann - S. Jung, Vasoski, Russ, Tzavellas - Schwegler, Rode - Caio, Meier, Halil Altintop - Gekas

SCHALKE 04: Neuer – Uchida, Papadopoulos, Metzelder, Escudero – Kluge, Annan – Farfan, Jurado – Raul, Huntelaar

SQUAD UPDATE

Maik Franz will miss the match due to a one match ban. Benjamin Köhler and Patrick Ochs are also out due to injuries, next to Chris, Nikolov and Bajramovic.

ATTENDANCE

3,373 Eintracht supporters will travel to Gelsenkirchen, the stadium is expected to be sold out (61,673 capacity).

COLOURS

The Eagles will play in traditional red and black, the hosts in blue and white.

LIVE MATCH COMMENTARY

On eintracht.de you will be able to follow all the action via the English language LIVE text commentary. Click HERE from kick-off onwards – shots, goals, fouls, free-kicks, corners, cards, substitutions, offsides etc will be posted as and when they happen.

RECENT MEETINGS

The first leg this season ended 0-0 despite both teams playing a good match. Last season Schalke was able to win both games.

ALL TIME RECORD

It is the 1450th Bundesliga game for each team since the league started in 1963. In the Bundesliga all time standings Schalke are ranked 9th and Eintracht 10th with a gap of 71 points. The two have met 75 times so far: Eintracht won 27, drawing 19 and losing 29. Each team scored 114 goals in those meetings.

MANAGERS

Eintracht coach Skibbe was born in Gelsenkirchen and played his last match as an active player around 25 years ago for Schalke in 1986. Schalke manager Magath was born in Aschaffenburg near Frankfurt and also coached Eintracht – he left 10 years back in January 2001.

FACTS & FIGURES

S04 have only won one of their last six league games (two draws, three defeats).
Eintracht are winless in eight games. The last time the Hessians went on such a long run without a win was back in spring 2001.
Frankfurt (none) and Schalke (four) are the two teams who have scored the fewest goals in the Bundesliga in 2011.
Schalke have only conceded three goals in their last eight BL home games.
S04 striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (seven goals) hasn’t scored in 1002 minutes.
Frankfurt’s top scorer Theofanis Gekas (14 goals) is without a goal in the league in 645 minutes.