VfB sport Director Bobic is little optimistic © SID-IMAGES/Romania /Today's Bundesliga Sunday there the crisis summit between Eintracht Frankfurt and penultimate Stuttgart. Also Bremen is in the relegation battle on the spot.
Frankfurt/Main (SID) - crisis Sunday in the Bundesliga: the penultimate VfB Stuttgart is the zero goals Hesse Eintracht Frankfurt on the spot (3: 30 pm / sky and Liga total!), for Werder Bremen is runners-up Bayer Leverkusen (5.30 P.m.) against about survival.
Stuttgart travel against Benfica Lisbon and violation of goalkeeper Marc Ziegler to in the second round of Europe badly shaken to Frankfurt. "Since you look positively forward and get what again on the cheeks." "Hope and reality is something else," said VfB sport Director Fredi Bobic bit optimistic: "We must look we get back to work for our players to Sunday."
Cacau (adductor problems), Serdar Tasci (bars issues), Arthur Boka (inner band ligaments in the knee), Christian Gentner (torn ankle ligaments) and Pavel Pogrebnyak (broken) are posted or long-term injured. Ziegler is excluded according to his concussion against Lisbon. Hopes in the rest again to Sven Ulreich, which actually degraded by coach Brudo Labbadia to number two.
Frankfurt will stop "Anti Lauf"
Alarm bells ring in Concord. A mickriger point and a goal this year is the balance sheet. "That gnawing", admitted outright to coach Michael Skibbe: "We have to finally break this anti run."
The Hessen are landed at number 12, met on Thursday to the team dinner and looked at himself in the lot of the VfB against Lisbon watching TV. Skibbe will make changes despite the misery. "It's pretty sure that we change the strategy." "So we played successfully in the past one and a half years", said the 45.
Is to say: everything remains aligned in the storming of Theofanis Gekas on April 18. December 2010 in a 1-0-scored victory against leaders Borussia Dortmund the last results for Eintracht. Ralf Fahrmann injured Oka Nikolov is represented in the target.
Highest alert level at Werder Bremen
Bremen is 4-0 after-debacle in the North Derby against Hamburger SV highest alert level. "Who now still not understood that we are involved in a relegation battle, which is no longer helping", said Torsten Frings. Provided his free-kick goal in injury time to 2: 1 against sporting Gijon on 15. January for single Bremen victory in their last nine games. The captain is locked against Leverkusen.
Coach Thomas Schaaf is still convinced that it is the right thing in a relegation battle for Werder. "I work intensively as ever," said Schaaf is provided in the Hanseatic still in question. Externally it is quiet in the Club despite the precarious situation. There are even signs the contract to be beyond 2012 renewed prematurely by CEO Klaus Allofs throughout the year.
In the short term are the hopes of Claudio Pizarro. The Peruvians can be used against Leverkusen after overcoming muscle injury.
At Leverkusen warns coach Jupp Heynckes three days after a 2-0-victory in the Europa League against FC Metalist Kharkiv before the battered Blumenthal: we have seen against Stuttgart, that it is not easy to play against an incumbent opponent from the table cellar. Bremen is located in a negative spiral. "This makes the task easier for us."
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