FC Augsburg and Borussia Dortmund are going to take on on Sunday the 27th of February at 5:30 pm in the 24th week of the Bundesliga. The match will be played in Augsburg at the WWK Arena.
FC Augsburg sits in the 16th position in the table with 22 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against SC Freiburg in its last match in the Bundesliga. Thus far, it has won 5 times, draw 7 times, and lost 11 times.
Borussia Dortmund occupies the 2nd position in the table with 49 points. It comes from a 6-0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach in its last match in the Bundesliga. Up to now, it has won 16 times, drawn once, and lost 6 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
FC Augsburg
FC Augsburg has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 43.48%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (10 times), 4-2-2-2 (3 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times), 4-4-1-1 (once) and 5-3-2 (once).
Markus Weinzierl is expected to play against Borussia Dortmund with the following players: R. Gikiewicz, I. Amaral Borduchi, J. Gouweleeuw, R. Oxford, R. Framberger, R. Vargas, N. Dorsch, A. Maier, D. Caligiuri, F. Niederlechner and M. Gregoritsch.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of FC Augsburg would be 27.91.
Markus Weinzierl will probably not be able to employ R. Gumny, F. Winther and F. Jensen because of injury.
T. Strobl, A. Finnbogason and A. Zeqiri will definitely miss the match.
Markus Weinzierl will not be able to have the presence of A. Hahn who is suspended.
Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 (7 times or 30.43% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (7 times), 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 3-4-2-1 (4 times), 4-3-1-2 (2 times), 4-1-3-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 4-3-2-1 (once).
Marco Rose is expected to play against FC Augsburg with the following players: G. Kobel, E. Can, M. Hummels, M. Pongracic, R. Guerreiro, M. Dahoud, J. Bellingham, M. Wolf, M. Reus and D. Malen.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Borussia Dortmund would be 26.90.
There are doubts about the presence of E. Håland.
Marco Rose will probably not be able to employ M. Akanji, T. Meunier, M. Morey Bauzà and G. Reyna because of injury.
M. Schmelzer and D. Zagadou will definitely miss the match.