📊 Form Guide

Augsburg

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Augsburg will be wanting a better result here after a 5-1 Bundesliga losing effort in their last game against Holstein Kiel.

In that match, Augsburg managed 62% possession and 16 shots on goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Augsburg was Alexis Claude-Maurice (5'). Holstein Kiel had 8 shots at goal with 6 on target. Lasse Rosenboom (12'), Phil Harres (32', 35') and Shuto Machino (39', 91') scored for Holstein Kiel.

Matches involving Augsburg have tended to be engaging affairs lately with a lot of goalmouth action the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 6 of them belonging to Augsburg. We will just have to find out if that trend will be sustained here.

Coming into this meeting, Augsburg have not won against Stuttgart in their last 5 matches in the league.

Stuttgart

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Since being beaten in their last game against St. Pauli in Bundesliga action, Stuttgart and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Stuttgart managed 73% possession and 25 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. St. Pauli got 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Johannes Eggestein (21') was the scorer for St. Pauli.

Proving their bias toward high-scoring matches, the back of the net has been hit 23 times in the last 6 matches in which Stuttgart have sent out their troops, making it an average of 3.83 goals per clash. Their opponents have managed 7 of this grand total.

Pre-game facts show that Stuttgart:

• are undefeated by Augsburg when they've played them away from home in the last 2 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 31/10/2021 shows that Augsburg have won 1 of these and Stuttgart 4, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

A total of 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 of them from Augsburg and 11 belonging to Stuttgart. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.17.

The last league game between these clubs was Bundesliga match day 33 on 10/05/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Augsburg 0-1 Stuttgart.

On that day, Augsburg managed 23% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

For their opponents, Stuttgart got 19 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Serhou Guirassy (48') scored.

The match was refereed by Florian Badstübner.

📰 Team News: Augsburg

Reece Oxford (Fitness), Masaya Okugawa (Hamstring injury), Mads Pedersen (Groin surgery), Keven Schlotterbeck (Thigh problems) and Yusuf Kabadayi (Knee surgery) won’t be available for Augsburg boss Jess Thorup.

In our view, Augsburg will probably opt for a 3-5-2 system in the match featuring Finn Dahmen, Chrislain Matsima, Jeffrey Gouweleeuw, Maximilian Bauer, Robert Gumny, Frank Onyeka, Kristijan Jakic, Elvis Rexhbecaj, Dimitrios Giannoulis, Samuel Essende and Alexis Claude.

ℹ️ Team News: Stuttgart

Stuttgart manager Sebastian Hoeneß has a number of players out of action. Luca Raimund (Hamstring injury), Justin Diehl (Hamstring injury), El Bilal Touré (Metatarsal fracture), Nikolas Nartey (Fitness) and Dan-Axel Zagadou (Outer ligament problems) will not be playing here.

There’s a good chance that Stuttgart will likely elect for a 3-4-1-2 system, starting the game with Alexander Nuebel, Anthony Rouault, Jeff Chabot, M. Mittelstaedt, Josha Vagnoman, Chris Fuehrich, Atakan Karazor, Angelo Stiller, Enzo Millot, Ermedin Demirovic and Nick Woltemade.

⚡ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Augsburg may well find it hard to score goals against this Stuttgart side who we think will do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a narrow 0-1 winning margin for Stuttgart after 90 minutes.

A close call.

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Andre Moura, 16:13 12/01/2025