Week 21 brings us a match on Feb 17th, where Augsburg hosts Hoffenheim in a meeting of these two Bundesliga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 8 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. Augsburg sits at 13th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-3 loss against Mainz 05. Jae-Sung Lee scored the first goal for Mainz 05 in the 21st minute, then Karim Onisiwo added another in the 24th minute on a feed from Leandro Barreiro. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 8 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 14th placed Hoffenheim, recorded a 1-3 loss against Bayer Leverkusen. Robert Andrich scored the first goal for Bayer Leverkusen in the 6th minute, then Moussa Diaby added another in the 46th minute on a feed from Jeremie Frimpong. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 2 points in their last 10 matches.
On Saturday Aug 27th, Hoffenheim hosted Augsburg in their last match together. Hoffenheim won by a score of 1 to 0. Dennis Geiger scored the first goal for Hoffenheim in the 39th minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Augsburg was frustrated by Hoffenheim’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Hoffenheim ended the match with the shutout victory.
Andrej Kramarić has been the most effective weapon for Hoffenheim lately. The Croatian attacker has netted two goals in his last five matches. Augsburg’s most prolific scorer has been Mergim Berisha. The attacker has netted three goals over the last five matches
Enrico Maaßen’s squad will be without André Hahn, Reece Oxford, Ruben Vargas, Iago, Tobias Strobl, Irvin Cardona and Ermedin Demirović, while Robert Skov, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Grischa Prömel, Dennis Geiger, Pavel Kadeřábek and Kevin Vogt are unavailable to play for Pellegrino Matarazzo’s team.