Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Darmstadt 98 & Borussia Mönchengladbach face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the DFB Pokal. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Darmstadt 98 and Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Darmstadt 98 form and stats
Darmstadt have not come this way in the DFB Pokal without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Ingolstadt. Last season, Darmstadt 98's DFB Pokal journey ended in the 1st round.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor as Darmstadt 98 have scored 12 goals to get 14 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the 2. Bundesliga are 4-2-0 (wins-draws-losses).
A good away victory last time out for Darmstadt 98, who won 2-1 against Karlsruher SC. The attacker Tietz was declared "man of the match" for Darmstadt 98 with a rating of 8.03/10. Tietz scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.
Previous to that game, a 2. Bundesliga home match hosting Fortuna Dusseldorf in a game that was won 1-0.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the 2. Bundesliga game versus Holstein Kiel in only three days. This game is also played here at Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor.
Darmstadt have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Borussia Mönchengladbach form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Oberachern in order to reach 2nd round of DFB Pokal. Borussia Mönchengladbach was sent out of DFB Pokal in the round of 16 last season.As the visiting team in Bundesliga matches, Borussia Mönchengladbach have produced an overall stat of 0-4-1 so far.
Mönchengladbach are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at VfL Wolfsburg. Thuram has bagged at least one goal for this team three matches in a row. The ability! The attacker Thuram got a match rating of 8.4 in that game. Thuram scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that, Borussia Mönchengladbach secured a home win against Köln with the score 5-2.After this away game Borussia Mönchengladbach return home for a Bundesliga game against Eintracht Frankfurt. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Borussia Mönchengladbach have scored 6 goals in 5 league games away.
Head 2 Head
Borussia Mönchengladbach have pulled off a sequence of 5 consecutive games without losing (2-3-0) when playing Darmstadt.Top Goalscorers
  M. Thuram 7 goals |   P. Tietz 6 goals | B. Manu 4 goals |
Darmstadt 98 missing players
Borussia Mönchengladbach missing players
| Darmstadt 98 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 7 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 56 | 30 | Scored | S | 32 | 62 | ||
| 28 | 13 | Conceded | C | 18 | 34 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 60% | ||
| 36% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 58% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 42% | 32% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 76% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 8% | ||
| 5.3 | 6.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.5 | ||
| 3.8 | 2.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.5 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.4 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 15.8 | 16.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.4 | 12.4 | ||
| 5.6 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.4 | 6 | ||
| 36% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 42% | ||
| 11.9 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.5 | 12.9 | ||
| 4.1 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.2 | 5.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Darmstadt 98 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 27 |
| 2 | Paderborn | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 25 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 25 |
| 4 | Heidenheim | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Holstein Kiel | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 19 |
| 7 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 17 |
| 8 | Karlsruher SC | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 17 |
| 9 | Kaiserslautern | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 10 | Jahn Regensburg | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -5 | 15 |
| 11 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 15 |
| 12 | St. Pauli | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 14 |
| 13 | Hansa Rostock | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 14 |
| 14 | Nürnberg | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 13 |
| 15 | Sandhausen | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -5 | 12 |
| 16 | Greuther Furth | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 10 |
| 17 | Magdeburg | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -12 | 10 |
| 18 | Arminia Bielefeld | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 8 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Union Berlin | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 23 |
| 2 | Bayern München | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 22 | 19 |
| 3 | Freiburg | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 18 |
| 4 | TSG Hoffenheim | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 17 |
| 5 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 17 |
| 6 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 16 |
| 7 | Köln | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 16 |
| 8 | Borussia Dortmund | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -1 | 16 |
| 9 | Werder Bremen | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 10 | RB Leipzig | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 15 |
| 11 | FSV Mainz 05 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | -2 | 15 |
| 12 | Augsburg | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -5 | 13 |
| 13 | VfL Wolfsburg | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -6 | 10 |
| 14 | Stuttgart | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -2 | 8 |
| 15 | Hertha BSC | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 8 |
| 16 | Bayer Leverkusen | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 8 |
| 17 | Schalke 04 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -14 | 6 |
| 18 | VfL Bochum 1848 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 15 | -18 | 4 |
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