Hoffenheim-Eintracht Frankfurt is a match of the eighth day of Bundesliga and is played on Saturday at 3:30 pm: TV, likely formations, predictions.
Hoffenheim, along with Stuttgart, is part of the group of “interlopers” currently occupying one of the top seven positions in the Bundesliga standings. The club from the small town of Sinsheim, which last year kept the category by the skin of its teeth, is in the middle of the European zone after seven days of the championship, four points behind the leading Bayer Leverkusen: Bayern Munich, to be clear, is only +2.
Despite the absence of its most talented player as well as the locker room leader, Andrej Kramaric, stopped by an injury, the men led by former Stuttgart coach Pellegrino Matarazzo in the last match brought home their fifth win in six games, defeating the Weserstadion in Bremen at the end of a thrilling match, decided by Bulter in full recovery (2-3). Immediately filed away, then, the second defeat of the season, suffered three weeks ago by Borussia Dortmund, which, as Freiburg had done last August, managed to violate the PreZero Arena (1-3). Matarazzo now goes on the hunt for confirmation with Eintracht Frankfurt, hoping to be able to recover Kramaric: the Croatian has obviously renounced the national team but remains in doubt for Saturday’s match.
But he is not the only absentee: also in the infirmary are Geiger, Kabak and Nsoki, who are unlikely to be available again ahead of the challenge with the Adlers.
Marmoush’s jubilation
Eintracht Frankfurt is a team that has completely changed its face from the past two seasons. In addition to coach Glasner, who was replaced by newcomer Dino Toppmoller, the Rossoneri club lost several players in the summer, including the various Kamada, Lindstrom, N’Dicka and sopprattutto striker Kolo Muani, and the feeling is that they failed to replace them properly. For now, Eintracht is eighth in the standings on 10 points – five less than Hoffenheim – and in its last outing broke a long winless streak that had lasted since August in the Bundesliga by overcoming newly promoted Heidenheim (2-0).
The Prediction
Without Kramaric Hoffenheim’s attack becomes less unpredictable, but the Sinsheim club should be able to avoid defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt even without the Croatian: we imagine a balanced match with both teams scoring.
The probable lineups of Hoffenheim-Eintracht Frankfurt
- HOFFENHEIM (3-5-2): Baumann; Akpoguma, Brooks, Vogt; Kadeřábek, Prömel, Grillitsch, Stach, Skov; Weghorst, Beier.
- EINTRACHT FRANKFURT (3-4-2-1): Trapp; Tuta, Koch, Pacho; Buta, Larsson, Shkiri, Nkounkou; Götze, Chaïbi; Marmoush.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-1