National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Homburg or SpVgg Greuther Fürth that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Homburg form and stats
Action has already taken place for Homburg in DFB Pokal as they have defeated Darmstadt 98 to reach the 2nd Round.It's back home for Homburg, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Mainz 05 II away with the result 4-2. Stavridis, Heilig, Quirin and Jansen found the net in that victory. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Hessen Kassel.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Regionalliga: Südwest game versus SV Steinbach in only four days. This game is also played here at Waldstadion Homburg.
SpVgg Greuther Fürth form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Hallescher FC in order to reach 2nd round of DFB Pokal.The visitors are W0-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the 2. Bundesliga.
SpVgg Greuther Fürth are travelling after their nice 4-0 home win in the match against Osnabruck. As mentioned above, Greuther was the only team on the pitch versus Osnabruck in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. Green got a match rating of 8.05 in that game, top player of the team. Green scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 52 successful passes (of 56 total).
Prior to that match, the SpVgg Greuther Fürth manager Zorniger faced defeat when travelling to Hamburger SV and losing 0-2.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the SpVgg Greuther Fürth manager Zorniger as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Kaiserslautern.
The visitors have scored 3 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The Greuther manager Zorniger has some worries about the defense as 11 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  P. Harres 7 goals |  F. Eisele 5 goals |   B. Hrgota 4 goals |
Homburg missing players
SpVgg Greuther Fürth missing players
| Homburg | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 66 | 24 | Scored | S | 15 | 49 | ||
| 38 | 17 | Conceded | C | 21 | 40 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 82% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 60% | ||
| 52% | 45% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 76% | 82% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 4.4 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.1 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.2 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7.6 | 8.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.4 | 13.1 | ||
| 4.4 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.7 | ||
| 60% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 42% | ||
| 7 | 6.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 9.9 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | St. Pauli | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 23 |
| 2 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 21 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 21 |
| 4 | Holstein Kiel | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 19 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 18 |
| 6 | Kaiserslautern | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 18 |
| 7 | Elversberg | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 18 |
| 8 | Nurnberg | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | -1 | 18 |
| 9 | Hertha BSC | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 15 |
| 10 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 15 |
| 11 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 15 |
| 12 | Paderborn | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -3 | 15 |
| 13 | Magdeburg | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 13 |
| 14 | Karlsruher SC | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -1 | 12 |
| 15 | Hansa Rostock | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 12 |
| 16 | Schalke 04 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -8 | 10 |
| 17 | Osnabruck | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | -16 | 6 |
| 18 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11 | -15 | 5 |
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