Hertha BSC and VfB Stuttgart will take on on Sunday the 24th of April at 5:30 pm in the 31st week of the Bundesliga. The match will be played in Berlin at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
Hertha BSC sits in the 15th position in the league with 29 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against FC Augsburg in its last match in the Bundesliga. Up to now, it has won 8 times, draw 5 times, and lost 17 times.
VfB Stuttgart is in the 16th position in the standings with 28 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against FSV Mainz 05 in its last match in the Bundesliga. Thus far, it has won 6 times, draw 10 times, and lost 14 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Hertha BSC
Hertha BSC has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 23.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 4-4-2 (6 times), 3-4-2-1 (5 times), 4-3-3 (4 times), 4-1-4-1 (3 times), 4-2-2-2 (3 times), 3-1-4-2 (once) and 5-3-2 (once).
Felix Magath is expected to play against VfB Stuttgart with the following players: M. Lotka, A. Boyata, M. Plattenhardt, P. Pekarík, S. Serdar, L. Tousart, S. Ascacíbar, V. Darida, M. Richter, D. Selke and K. Boateng.
Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Hertha BSC would be 28.45.
R. Almenning Jarstein, A. Schwolow, J. Torunarigha and S. Jovetić will definitely miss the match.
VfB Stuttgart
VfB Stuttgart has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 33.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (10 times), 4-3-3 (7 times), 3-1-4-2 (6 times), 4-5-1 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times), 4-4-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Pellegrino Matarazzo is expected to play against Hertha BSC with the following players: F. Müller, B. Sosa, K. Mavropanos, H. Ito, P. Stenzel, W. Anton, C. Führich, S. Kalajdzic and O. Marmoush.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of VfB Stuttgart would be 24.56.
There are doubts about the presence of W. Endo.
Pellegrino Matarazzo will probably not be able to employ D. Didavi, L. Egloff, N. Nartey, S. Wamangituka and M. Sankoh because of injury.