On the 8th of January, in this week 18 match, Greuther Fürth will play host to Stuttgart in a clash of these two evenly matched Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, and temperatures reaching a maximum of only 2 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. Greuther Fürth is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Augsburg. Neither Greuther Fürth nor Augsburg could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 3 and 14 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Greuther Fürth looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 8 of their last 10, while in their last match, Stuttgart recorded a 0-1 loss against Köln. Anthony Modeste scored the first goal for Köln in the 89th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Stuttgart couldn’t muster any offence and Köln ran away with the shutout win. Stuttgart looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10.
In their last match together, in Mercedes-benz-arena, Stuttgart was victorious by a score of 5 to 1 in front of just over 18000 jubilant spectators. Wataru Endo struck first for Stuttgart in the 30th minute, then Klement added another in the 36th minute.
Forster has been the most prolific scorer on Stuttgart in the last 5 matches with two goals. Greuther Fürth is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Hrgota and Tillman each only have 1 goal in their last five
Justin Hoogma, Jessic Ngankam, Robin Kehr and Marius Funk are unavailable to play for Stefan Leitl’s team, while Erik Thommy, Enzo Millot, Sosa, Roberto Massimo, Kalajdzic and Fabian Bredlow are unavailable to play for Stuttgart.