National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Stuttgarter Kickers or Eintracht Frankfurt that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Stuttgarter Kickers nor Eintracht Frankfurt as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Stuttgarter Kickers form and stats
Stuttgarter have reached this DFB Pokal stage through battling and winning against Greuther Furth.A strong away win for Stuttgarter Kickers against Goppinger SV the last match.
Previous to that game, a Oberliga: Baden-Wurttemberg home match hosting Rielasingen-Arlen in a game that was won 1-0.The match schedule is unforgiving for Stuttgarter Kickers as they have a new game in only four days, a Oberliga: Baden-Wurttemberg match thankfully also at home. Reutlingen are visiting.
Eintracht Frankfurt form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Magdeburg in order to reach 2nd round of DFB Pokal. They also participated in DFB Pokal last season. This ended in the 1st round.The visitors are W2-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Bundesliga.
Eintracht go into this game after a win, the home game against Bayer Leverkusen that ended 5-1. As mentioned above, Eintracht Frankfurt was the only team on the pitch versus Bayer Leverkusen in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task. Attacker Lindstrøm got a player rating of 8.41 in the game. "Man of the match" Lindstrøm scored one goal, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
A loss, in the Champions League away at Tottenham Hotspur, before that.
Eintracht Frankfurt have another match away from home in just four sleeps, a Bundesliga game vs Borussia Mönchengladbach. A rough diary for the visitors!
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Eintracht Frankfurt has managed {8 goals} and let in 8 from 4 matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Kamada 6 goals |  J. Lindstrøm 3 goals |  R. Kolo Muani 3 goals |
Stuttgarter Kickers missing players
Eintracht Frankfurt missing players
| Stuttgarter Kickers | Eintracht Frankfurt | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 21 | 9 | Won | W | 6 | 11 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 70 | 32 | Scored | S | 23 | 42 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Conceded | C | 17 | 32 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 46% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 20% | ||
| 32% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 44% | ||
| 64% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 28% | ||
| 7.1 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.2 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4.1 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.9 | 1.1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 14.8 | 13.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.1 | 12.7 | ||
| 6.8 | 6.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.6 | 5 | ||
| 40% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 34% | ||
| 6.4 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.8 | 10.3 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.1 | ||
| 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 |
