Preview: Augsburg vs. Stuttgart - prediction, team news, lineups

Stuttgart volition anticipation to commencement 2025 with a triumph and get backmost to winning ways connected Sunday erstwhile they question to WWK Arena to instrumentality connected Augsburg successful the Bundesliga.

The hosts are sixth past successful 13th spot with 16 points aft 15 matchweeks and lost 5-1 against Holstein Kiel connected December 21, whereas Stuttgart were beaten 1-0 by St Pauli connected the aforesaid day and are 10th with 23 points.

Match preview

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Augsburg took the pb against Holstein Kiel aft conscionable 5 minutes, but experienced a first-half collapse, conceding 4 goals from 4 shots connected target.

Head manager Jess Thorup challenged his players to amusement a absorption connected the play to the defeat, saying: "We request to amusement the FC Augsburg DNA connected the transportation – passion, strength, and commitment. If we tin bash that, past we're connected our mode to picking up points."

Thorup's squad person lone scored 17 times successful the Bundesliga, and this is the 4th worst tally successful the full league, portion their grounds of 32 goals conceded is besides the 4th worst return.

The Fuggerstadter are winless successful their past 3 games – losing their 2 astir caller matches – and person successful information mislaid three, drawn 3 and won conscionable 1 of their past 7 Bundesliga outings.

It should beryllium noted that Augsburg's signifier astatine location is awesome considering they person triumphed successful five, drawn 2 and lone been defeated successful 2 of their 9 games astatine WWK Arena this term.

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As for Stuttgart, portion they whitethorn consciousness they should person recovered the backmost of the nett against St Pauli fixed they created 4 large chances, they were possibly fortunate to person lone conceded erstwhile fixed they faced 5 large chances.

Manager Sebastian Hoeness was captious of his side's finishing successful the last third, telling reporters: "It hurts to extremity the twelvemonth with a defeat. We had our moments and chances, but conscionable didn't negociate to score. That's thing we person to beryllium self-critical astir today."

Die Roten recovered the backmost of the nett connected 78 occasions past word successful the league, but are presently connected way to people conscionable 65 times.

To Hoeness's side's credit, portion they mislaid past clip retired they did look victorious successful their erstwhile 4 fixtures by a cumulative people of 14-4.

The visitors person besides lone been beaten erstwhile successful their six astir caller outings connected the road, winning 3 and drafting 2 successful that period.

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Team News

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The hosts volition beryllium incapable to prime defenders Keven Schlotterbeck and Mads Valentin Pedersen until precocious January, and this could mean that Augsburg tract a backmost 3 consisting of Maximilian Bauer, Dimitrios Gouweleeuw and Chrislain Matsima.

Kristijan Jakic is apt to beryllium partnered by Frank Onyeka and Elvis Rexhbecaj successful midfield owed to Masaya Okugawa and Yusuf Kabadayi's respective injuries.

Alexis Claude-Maurice scored successful his side's past match, and helium could commencement alongside striker Phillip Tietz successful a beforehand two.

Stuttgart volition beryllium incapable to prime centre-back Dan-Axel Zagadou until aboriginal February, truthful expect Anthony Rouault and Julian Chabot to beryllium stationed successful beforehand of goalkeeper Alexander Nubel.

Nick Woltemade and Ermedin Demirovic whitethorn beryllium trusted to pb the visitors' onslaught fixed forwards El Bilal Toure and Justin Diehl person been ruled out.

In midfield, Atakan Karazor and Angelo Stiller started unneurotic successful their team's astir caller triumph – a 3-1 triumph against Heidenheim connected December 15 – and could play unneurotic connected Sunday.

Augsburg imaginable starting lineup:
Labrovic; Bauer, Gouweleeuw, Matsima; Wolf, Onyeka, Jakic, Rexhbecaj, Giannoulis; Claude-Maurice, Tietz

We say: Augsburg 1-2 Stuttgart

Augsburg are improbable to beryllium casual to flooded considering their beardown location form, and it would not beryllium astonishing if they scored.

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