Can die Adler stay unbeaten?

Eintracht Frankfurt might be seeking to proceed their unbeaten begin to the season once they face Bochum on Saturday night.

Bochum

After ending simply two factors above the underside three final time period, Bochum are seemingly set for one more nervy season after failing to win any of their opening three league video games. The Bundesliga marketing campaign started in disastrous trend, with their away fixture towards Stuttgart leading to a demoralising 5-0 defeat.

Bochum managed to revive a way of perception on matchday two, as they took some extent off Borussia Dortmund courtesy of a 1-1 draw. They managed to select up one other level of their most up-to-date outing towards Augsburg, coming from behind on two events due to a Takuma Asano brace.

Whereas Bochum might be happy to have averted defeat of their final two matches, they are going to be cautious of repeating final season’s look ahead to a victory. Bochum collected only one level from their opening 9 video games, earlier than they claimed their first league win of the 2022-23 season. They may be capable of draw inspiration from the truth that their first win of final time period came about towards Saturday’s opponents. On that event, they cruised to a 3-0 dwelling victory towards Frankfurt, and they are going to be determined to repeat that end result this weekend.

Workforce Information

Mohammed Tolba and Michael Esser are dominated out with knee accidents, whereas Lys Mousset and Jordi Osei-Tutu are additionally set to overlook Saturday’s contest.

Eintracht Frankfurt

Frankfurt have successfully balanced three competitions to make an unbeaten begin to the 2023-24 marketing campaign. After cruising by the primary spherical of the DFB-Pokal, die Adler bought their league marketing campaign up and working with a slender win over newly-promoted Darmstadt.

They managed to efficiently negotiate a Europa Convention League qualifying tie towards Levski Sofia, with the 2 legs going down both aspect of a 1-1 draw towards Mainz. They repeated that scoreline of their ultimate recreation earlier than the worldwide break towards Köln, with Nils Nkounkou equalising within the 87th minute to rescue some extent for die Adler.

Together with final season, Frankfurt are actually unbeaten in six league matches, however their away type is way from encouraging. They’ve did not win any of their earlier 12 Bundesliga matches (D6, L6) since beating Augsburg 2-1 in November. They’re presently experiencing an extended look ahead to an away Bundesliga clear sheet, with a goalless draw towards RB Leipzig in March 2022 representing the final time they recorded a shutout on their travels within the high flight.

Workforce Information

Dino Toppmöller is predicted to be with out the companies of Lucas Alario and Kristijan Jakic.

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