Augsburg vs Freiburg - prediction, team news, lineups

WWK Arena volition beryllium the backdrop for a perchance crucial Bundesliga showdown successful the contention for Europe, erstwhile Freiburg sojourn Augsburg connected Saturday.

Die Fuggerstadter are hoping to physique connected their DFB-Pokal triumph, portion Die Breisgau-Brasilianer are aiming to debar a 3rd league decision connected the bounce.

Match preview

Manuel Baum's Augsburg started their run successful awesome fashion, overmuch similar their extremity to the 2025-26 campaign, but it would beryllium just to accidental that they person tally retired of steam successful caller weeks.

Die Fuggerstadter kicked disconnected with consecutive victories, beating Schalke 04 3-0 successful their opener connected August 30 earlier thrashing Eintracht Frankfurt 4-1 a week later.

However, Baum's broadside person failed to travel retired connected apical successful immoderate of their 5 Bundesliga matches since, losing doubly and drafting 3 times, including a 1-1 stalemate with Union Berlin past Saturday.

That mediocre tally has near Augsburg ninth successful the array with 9 points to their name, and has made this clash perchance cardinal to their season, considering that the nine beryllium arsenic 3 points down fifth-placed RB Leipzig and 3 supra the relegation zone.

Hoping for a uncommon league triumph this weekend, fans of the hosts tin instrumentality a tiny magnitude positivity from the information Die Fuggerstadter are unbeaten astatine WWK Arena successful 2026-27, not to notation their 4-2 cupful triumph implicit Sonnenhof Grossaspach connected Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Julian Schuster's Freiburg besides made a blistering commencement to their season, and adjacent led the part aft 5 matchdays, but they are astatine hazard of falling retired of the European places this weekend.

Currently 3rd with 13 points, Die Breisgau-Brasilianer beryllium 4 shy of leaders Bayern Munich and second-placed Borussia Dortmund, yet conscionable 3 supra seventh-placed Mainz 05 and eighth-placed Elversberg.

Schuster's men began their run with an awesome nine-game unbeaten tally crossed each competitions, a agelong that featured 8 wins earlier coming to an extremity successful a 2-1 decision to Bayer Leverkusen connected October 18.

That nonaccomplishment seemed to person an interaction connected Freiburg, who went connected to endure 3 consecutive defeats anterior to their constrictive 3-2 triumph implicit second-tier Wolfsburg successful the DFB-Pokal connected Wednesday, a crippled that required a brace from Keisuke Goto to crook the lucifer connected its head. 

In fairness to Die Breisgau-Brasilianer, their abbreviated losing tally came against Leverkusen, Monaco and Bayern, 3 peculiarly pugnacious opponents, though it remains to beryllium seen whether they tin instrumentality to winning ways successful the Bundesliga, having past taken 3 distant league points successful a 1-0 occurrence astatine SC Paderborn connected September 5.

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Team News

Augsburg volition beryllium without centre-backs Abdulai Juma Bah, who is suspended owed to his reddish paper against Union, Noahkai Banks, who has a genu injury, and Calvin Brackelmann, who suffered a caput wounded during a collision with Felix Uduokhai successful the Union game.

In their absence, Yannik Keitel, Chrislain Matsima and Jeffrey Gouweleeuw should beryllium connected manus to signifier Baum's backmost three, with Marius Wolf and Hennes Behrens operating arsenic wing-backs.

Further forward, striker Steve Mounie remains sidelined, so Michael Gregoritsch could commencement up front, supported by Anton Kade and Arijon Ibrahimovic.

As for Freiburg, they person doubts astir a fig of full-backs, with left-back Jordy Makengo dealing with a musculus problem, right-back Philipp Treu getting implicit an ankle injury, and Berkay Yilmaz recovering from a dental procedure.

Makengo is expected to beryllium acceptable for Saturday's showdown, and helium could commencement other from Lukas Kubler connected the close flank of the visiting defence.

Elsewhere, winger Derry Scherhant sat retired successful midweek aft picking up a sound to his ft against Bayern but could marque the XI, with Vincenzo Grifo acceptable to regenerate him if not.

Augsburg imaginable starting lineup:

Dahmen; Keitel, Matsima, Gouweleeuw; Wolf, Reider, Massengo, Behrens; Kade, Ibrahimovic; Gregoritsch

Freiburg imaginable starting lineup:

Backhaus; Kubler, Lienhart, Ginter, Makengo; Engelhardt, Eggestein; Beste, Suzuki, Scherhant; Matanovic

We say: Augsburg 1-1 Freiburg

Augsburg person struggled for wins this word but they person remained resilient connected location turf, and are improbable to beryllium beaten this weekend.

Freiburg volition beryllium optimistic astir avoiding a 3rd successive Bundesliga defeat, yet aft winning conscionable 1 of their past 4 - some wide and connected the roadworthy - a gully seems the astir apt result.

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