Our prediction for this Bundesliga match:
WWK Arena will host Saturday’s football game between Augsburg and Bochum, the two teams who are eyeing their first triumphs of the season. Augsburg aim to recover from a 3-1 loss to Bayern Munich and it seems as if they will not have a better opportunity than this to return to winning ways. Anyhow, their display from the first half of the Bavarian derby is giving fans a reason for optimism ahead of the visit of Bochum. Forward Nathanael Mbuku should recover in time to face Der Blau, while all Jeffrey Gouweleeuw, Masaya Okugawa, Renato Veiga, and Raphael Framberger remain in the treatment room.
Bochum, on the other hand, did well to hold title hopefuls Borussia Dortmund to a 1-1 draw at the weekend, but given their difficulties on the road, we believe that there is a big value in betting on Augsburg this time out. Philipp Forster is a major doubt, while all Maximilian Wittek, Michael Esser, Lys Mousset, and Mohammed Tolba are out of contention with injuries.
Highlighted Team (Augsburg):
Augsburg are a German football club founded in Augsburg, Bavaria back in 1907. Die Fuggerstadter play in German Bundesliga and with 12,200 members they are regarded as the largest football club in Bavaria. Augsburg wear white shirts and they host their rivals at WWK ARENA.
The capacity of the stadium is 30,660 and it has been the home of Augsburg since 2009. Augsburg won the Schwaben Cup 13 times and it has to be noted that they were promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in 2011.
The club qualified for the Europa League 2015/2016 group stages and thanks to a 3-1 win over Partizan in Belgrade they booked their place in the last 32. However, Liverpool proved to be a big catch for the German outfit in the Europa League knockout stages.
Die Fuggerstadter’s main rivals are TSV 1860 Munich and there have always been fireworks when the two teams take on each other.