Our prediction for this DFB Pokal match:
Eintracht Frankfurt will be aiming to book their place in the German Cup last 16 when they face Stuttgarter Kickers at Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau on Tuesday evening. Die Adler have been struggling in the Champions League this term, but they did well to roll over Eintracht Frankfurt 5-1 in their last league match. A man to watch in the away team will be Daichi Kamada, who scored a brace at the weekend, while all Borre, Alario, and Rode are pushing for a start.
The likes of Buta, Hasebe, Knauff, Pellegrini, Onguene, and Toure are sidelined with injuries. The Oberliga Baden-Wurttemberg side, on the other hand, are fully focused on securing promotion, meaning that a defeat to Eintracht would not hurt them too much. Even though the lower-league team are on a six-game winning run at the moment, we are tempted to put our money on the Bundesliga outfit, who impressed in the crushing of Bayer Leverkusen.
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 (Frankfurt):
Eintracht Frankfurt is a German football club who is active in the German Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1920 after a fusion between different football clubs from Frankfurt. Eintracht Frankfurt is playing in the Bundesliga since 2011/2012 and is known for being a stable club in the Bundesliga. Currently the club is playing their home games in the Commerzbank-Arena which holds a capacity of 51000 seats. The club colour of Eintracht Fankfurt are black, red and white. Eintracht Frankfurt is called the Adlertrager by their fans. The club’s rival Kickers Offenbach.
Eintracht Frankfurt is one of the few clubs in Germany that won the Bundesliga; in the season 1958/1959 were able to win the league. Other important prizes Eintracht Frankfurt won are the DFB Pokal (4 times) and the the UEFA Cup in 1980. There are many famous football players that played for EIntracht Frankfurt in their career like Pfaff, Moller, Low, Okocha, Kopke and Berthold.