Our prediction for this Bundesliga match:
Frankfurt
Match Time & Date:
21/01/2023
14:30
Prediction: 2-0
Schalke
Eintracht Frankfurt will look to kick off 2023 in style when they welcome Schalke to their Deutsche Bank Park on Matchday 16. Die Adler aim to stay in the Champions League berth, and the bookies see them as hot favourites to win Saturday’s clash. A man to keep an eye on in the home team will be Randal Kolo Muani, who made it to the World Cup finals with France, while both Tuta and Marcel Wenig are out of contention with injuries.
Meanwhile, die Knappen are stuck at the bottom with only nine point on their account. Since the rock-bottom side are on a four-game losing run on the road, we do not believe that they are capable of claiming a major scalp in Frankfurt. To make things even worse for the visiting side, their injury list is pretty long, including the likes of Kral, Yoshida, Polter, Zalazar, and Greiml, to name just a few.
Highlighted Player (Mario Gotze):
Mario Gotze is a German midfielder, who played for Ronsberg and Eintrach Hombruch during his youth career before joining Borussia Dortmund in 2001. He made a great progress during his spell at the Borussia Dortmund’s youth academy and on 21 November, 2009 he made his Bundesliga debut for the Millionaires.
Gotze scored 22 goals in 83 league appearances for the club between 2009 and 2013 and he joined Borussia Dortmund’s bitterest rivals Bayern Munich on April, 2013. The German midfielder, who is capable of playing as a striker as well, failed to impress in the 2015/2016 Bundesliga campaign, but it has to be noted that he was struggling with injury at the start of the season.
Gotze won three Bundesliga trophies with Bayern Munich, but at the end of the 2015/2016 season he returned to Borussia Dortmund. In 2014 he represented Germany at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil and he scored the winner in the final against Argentina. Mario Gotze was born in Memmingen on 3 June, 1992.
Highlighted Team (Schalke):
Schalke 04 are a professional football club founded in 1904. Die Knappen (The Miners) compete in German Bundesliga and they have won seven domestic titles. Schalke have clinched five German Cup trophies as well, while lifting the UEFA Cup title in 1997. The German club defeated Italian side Inter on penalties in the title game and that was the last time the final of the competition was played in a two-legged format.
Schalke 04 play their home matches at Veltins-Arena, the stadium that has been the home of the team since 2001. The capacity of Veltins-Arena is 62,271. It is well known that Borussia Dortmund are Schalke’s main rivals and the Ruhy neighbours face each other in the Revierderby.
The likes of Klaus Fichtel (477), Norbert Nigbur (355), Rolf Russmann (304), Klaus Fischer (295), Olaf Thon (295) and Herbert Lutkebohmert (286) are the players with most appearances for die Knappen. The colour of Schalke’s home kit is blue.
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