Energie Cottbus vs Augsburg - prediction, team news, lineups

Energie Cottbus are inactive uncovering their feet successful the 2. Bundesliga pursuing their historical promotion, but they volition person to enactment their league duties to 1 broadside this play arsenic they hole to big Augsburg successful the archetypal circular of the DFB-Pokal.

Unlike the hosts, Augsburg are heading into their archetypal competitory crippled of the season, and they volition beryllium looking to shingle disconnected a mediocre caller grounds successful this competition.

Match preview

Recent years person not been benignant to Energie Cottbus, who went from the heights of the Bundesliga successful 2009 to the lows of the 4th tier conscionable 8 years later.

After meandering successful the 4th and 3rd tiers for implicit a decade, Energie yet made a breakthrough, finishing 2nd successful the 3. Liga past play to unafraid that all-important promotion to the 2. Bundesliga.

The mastermind down Energie’s caller successes is caput manager Claus-Dieter Wollitz, who has been successful the occupation since 2021.

Avoiding relegation volition beryllium precocious connected Wollitz’s precedence database this season, and his broadside has made a mixed commencement to the caller season, picking up an awesome 3-1 triumph implicit Hannover earlier being thrashed 3-0 distant astatine Arminia Bielefeld.

Weekly pressures of the 2nd tier volition beryllium replaced with an breathtaking accidental to play a Bundesliga nine this play - a crippled successful which Energie person small to lose.

The nine boast a dreadful grounds successful the DFB-Pokal, bowing retired successful the archetypal circular successful 8 of the past 9 seasons. 

Augsburg are heading into the caller play hoping to amended connected their ninth-placed decorativeness - an awesome accomplishment fixed the nine spent the aboriginal portion of the run flirting with the relegation zone.

Manuel Baum’s accomplishment successful December sparked the club’s awesome turnaround, with the manager overseeing a tally of 8 wins from the past 16 games of the season.

To enactment that into perspective, Augsburg managed conscionable 3 wins nether Sandro Wagner successful the archetypal 12 games of the Bundesliga season.

With a afloat pre-season nether his loop and immoderate large changes taking spot during the transportation window, Baum is excited to get things underway, telling the club’s website: “Pre-season is over, and this weekend, things footwear off. As you’d expect, everyone is itching to get started.”

One happening the 46-year-old brag volition beryllium hoping to alteration is Augsburg's mediocre grounds successful the DFB-Pokal, fixed the broadside person progressed past the 2nd circular conscionable erstwhile successful 7 years.

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Team News

Energie Cottbus are dealing with a fistful of absentees up of Saturday’s DFB-Pokal game.

Jannis Boziaris, for instance, has a calf occupation and is expected to stay connected the sidelines.

Erik Engelhardt, connected the different hand, is dealing with a ligament tear, portion King Manu is trying to shingle disconnected a genu issue.

Augsburg, meanwhile, participate the caller play boasting a acceptable squad, with the objection of 1 name.

Alexis Claude-Maurice is simply a uncertainty aft picking up an ankle occupation past May, and the attacking midfielder does person a flimsy question people implicit his name.

There are besides questions implicit who volition commencement up front, with Baum boasting respective options. 

Michael Gregoritsch was a regular starter successful the 2nd fractional of past season, scoring six goals successful 17 league matches. The Austrian could person contention from caller signings Rodrigo Ribeiro and Steve Mounie. 

Energie Cottbus imaginable starting lineup:

Lotka; Rorig, Campulka, Erlein, Borgmann; Pelivan, Michelbrink; Hannemann, Cigerci, Butler; Bogdanov

Augsburg imaginable starting lineup:

Dahmen; Matsima, Gouweleeuw, Schlotterbeck; Fellhauer, Massengo, Rieder, Behrens; Kade; Gregoritsch, Ribeiro

We say: Energie Cottbus 0-2 Augsburg

Energie Cottbus are expected to springiness a bully relationship of themselves, though yet the gulf successful prime does look significant.

Augsburg person made immoderate bully signings implicit the summer, and we are backing them to gain a assured win.

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