In this 34th week match, on Saturday May 14th, Union Berlin will host Bochum in a Bundesliga match. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 15 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. In their last match, Union Berlin recorded a 4-1 win against Freiburg. Grischa Prömel scored the first goal for Union Berlin in the 11th minute, then Christopher Trimmel added another in the 30th minute. With 20 points in their last 10 matches Union Berlin should be reasonably happy with their performance, while 11th placed Bochum is fresh off their 2-1 win against Arminia Bielefeld. Sebastian Polter struck first for Bochum in the 22nd minute on a feed from Milos Pantovic, then Joakim Nilsson tied it up for Arminia Bielefeld in the 35th minute. Bochum is looking for direction having 4 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in Vonovia Ruhrstadion, Union Berlin was victorious by a score of 1 to 0 in front of almost 14000 dissapointed spectators. Max Kruse scored the first goal for Union Berlin in the 16th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Bochum couldn’t muster any offence and Union Berlin ran away with the shutout win.
Sebastian Polter has been the most prolific scorer on Bochum in the last five matches with two goals. Both Sven Michel and Sheraldo Becker have been the hottest scorers for Union Berlin in the last five each having scored 2 goals each
Anthony Ujah and András Schäfer are unavailable to play for Urs Fischer’s team, while Danilo Teodoro Soares is unavailable to play for Thomas Reis’s team.