There’s also action from the German top flight on Saturday with this upcoming Bundesliga clash between basement dwellers, Greuther Furth, and high-flying Freiburg at the Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer.
With 11 points now separating Greuther Furth from fourth from bottom club, Arminia Bielefeld and safety, the hosts look to have a mountain to climb in not only securing a result here this Saturday afternoon against Freiburg but to also avoid almost certain relegation from the Bundesliga.
Greuther Furth have managed to register just three league wins to date in this season’s Bundesliga campaign, their first season in the German top flight in over eight years.
The points were collected against Union Berlin, Mainz and Hertha Berlin, two of whom are in the bottom half of the Bundesliga.
However, 18 defeats within their total of 26 matches played to date in this season’s domestic top flight tells its own story of how difficult Greuther Furth have found life in the Bundesliga this term.
Onto Freiburg and the visitors currently sit in 5th place in the Bundesliga but they’ll have serious designs on grabbing all three points here on Saturday afternoon as they look to press home their claims of a possible top four finish and Champions League football next season.
Freiburg bring a decent looking five-match unbeaten sequence into this upcoming encounter at the Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer having picked up wins against Augsburg, Hertha Berlin and Wolfsburg along with picking up points in draws with Mainz and RB Leipzig as well.
This improved run of results certainly stands Freiburg in good stead as they prepare for this clash against Greuther Furth, whom they’ve recorded wins against in each of their previous five meetings, so confidence will be high amongst the Freiburg camp that they can achieve an important win here this Saturday.
Freiburg have also held their own on the road so far this season, winning 5, drawing 4 and losing 4 so far this term.
While two of their four defeats away from home this season are explained with visits to Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, both of whom occupy the top two places in the Bundesliga.
Victories at Stuttgart, Hertha Berlin, Wolfsburg, Borussia M’gladbach and Augsburg should stand Freiburg in good stead for this fixture though.