Saarbruecken – Braunschweig

Teams from different divisions will exchange goals

Saarbrücken arrived in the German Third League from the Southwest Regional League at the end of the 2019/2020 season. The team was then managed by Lukas Kwasnjok, who moved to more status Paderborn a season later and still coaches them. Saarbrücken on the other hand, has not lost its ambition, never falling below seventh position in the Third League. The team made a real breakthrough the season before last, when they reached the semi-finals of the German Cup as a representative of the third division, eliminating Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund Gladbach along the way. This season it came down to achievements in the national championship, where Schwarz's team finished in third position. Braunschweig before the start of the next draw of the Second Bundesliga was considered almost the most obvious candidate for relegation. However, Eintracht managed to finish above Regensburg and Ulm, who are now purposefully preparing for the Third League. Bookmakers consider the guests as favourites for the duel, but in the first meeting favoured the home team, offering odds of 2.23 on their victory. Saarbrücken have played very evenly this season. The period from the beginning of October to the end of January was particularly good for the team, when Schwarz's team did not lose in thirteen rounds in a row. Otherwise, Saarbrücken allowed occasional misfires and lost two in a row only twice in 38 rounds of the season. The club has not lost more than twice in a row in the current championship, that is, serious crisis periods have not experienced. Saarbrücken got the right to play in the knockout rounds of the Third League, when they defeated Borussia Dortmund II, and Energie unexpectedly lost at home walls not needing points Ingolstadt. Braunschweig started the season with four consecutive defeats, emphasising the validity of the bookmakers' expectations of their failure. However, subsequently, the team began to more or less steadily pick up points and often present sensations. What is only worth two victories of Eintracht over Hamburg, which at the end of the season went to the Bundesliga. The guests finished the season extremely weakly in the Second Bundesliga, but they are quite capable of scoring at least a goal in the first meeting.