On Friday Sep 22nd, in week 5, Stuttgart hosts Darmstadt 98 at Mercedes-benz Arena in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Bundesliga teams. In their last match, 4th placed Stuttgart, recorded a 3-1 win against Mainz 05. Sehrou Guirassy scored the first goal for Stuttgart in the 56th minute, but Leandro Barreiro got the equalizer for Mainz 05 in the 69th minute. Stuttgart is looking for direction having 3 win and 1 losses in their last 10 matches, while darmstadt 98 is fresh off their 3-3 draw against Borussia M’gladbach. Mehlem scored the first goal for Darmstadt 98 in the 8th minute, then Matej Maglica added another in the 10th minute on a feed from Kempe. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 3 of their last 10.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season.
Mehlem has been the most prolific scorer on Darmstadt 98 in his last five matches with 2 goals. Stuttgart is fortunate enough to have Sehrou Guirassy in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored nine goals
Sebastian Hoeneß’s Stuttgart squad will be without Deniz Undav, Josha Vagnoman and Kastanaras, while Christoph Zimmermann, Fraser Hornby, Honsak, Braydon Manu and Alexander Brunst are unavailable to play for Darmstadt 98.