POSSIBLE LINE-UPS
EINTRACHT: Nikolov – Jung, Anderson, Schildenfeld, Butscher – Lehmann, Rode – Matmour, Meier, Köhler – Hoffer
Manager: Armin Veh
Missing: Nobody
Close to suspension: Matmour (4)
PADERBORN: Kruse – Wemmer, Mohr, Strohdiek, Bertels – Krösche, Alushi – Meha, Brückner – Brandy, Proschwitz
Manager: Roger Schmidt
Missing: Gonther, Krause, Wissing
Close to suspension: Alushi, Strohdiek (4 each)
ATTENDANCE
3,251 Eintracht supporters will travel to Paderborn, the capacity of the ‘Energieteam Arena’ is 15,000.
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 white jerseys and white shorts, Paderborn in black.
FACTS
- The first leg (0-0) was the first ever meeting of the two teams.
- The Eagles drew 5 of their 7 games against teams in the top 5 (1 win, 1 defeat).
- The first leg was the only match in the first season half without Eintracht scoring.
- Eintracht collected 21 points away from home and are the best away team.
- Paderborn lost only 1 of their last 16 home games (8 wins, 7 draws), against Fürth in August 2011 (0-1). Only the Eagles have a better run of unbeaten home games (11).
- In the first 18 matches of the season SCP only conceded 13 goals and managed 8 clean sheets. In their last 4 matches they conceded 11 and always at least 2.
- Eintracht scored the most goals (50) so far, only 6 teams in Bundesliga 2 history managed to score more and all of them got promoted in the end. The last team to score as many or more was Hannover 96 in the 2001/02 season.
- The Eagles also scored the most headed goals (15), Paderborn the second most (10).
