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Before the season, both VfL Osnabrück and SV Sandhausen entered the race with the goal of “staying up”. After the first half, both clubs are more than good in terms of this goal. Rising star Osnabrück went into the winter break in a great sixth place. It is seven points ahead of the relegation zone. Relegation place three is only five meters away.
SV Sandhausen has two points less than VfL and is three places behind the purple-whites in the table. On Wednesday evening, both teams will face off in a direct duel between the 2nd Bundesliga and the start of 2020. The kick-off at Bremen Bridge is at 19:30 p.m. Who starts the new year with success?
Osnabruck:
VfL Osnabrück was certainly one of the surprises of the first half of the season in the 2nd Bundesliga. It hadn’t started that well for the purple-whites. After the 9th matchday, the team of coach Daniel Thioune was only in 13th place with ten points. But then a series of eight games without defeat followed. Here, VfL performed particularly well at home.
Both the VfB and the HSV had to experience first-hand what the climber at the Bremen Bridge can do. Both promotion favorites went home again without points. With 17 points from nine home games, Osnabrück was the fifth best home team in the league. If the Lower Saxony build on this performance this year, the game Osnabrück vs. Sandhausen doesn’t stand in the way of predicting a home success.
Only in the last game before the winter break did the great series from Osnabrück come to an end with the 1-3 in Heidenheim. Although the club has had to deal with injuries over and over again during the season so far, only one player was brought in by FC Zurich during the game-free period with Assan Ceesay. Maurice Trapp and Konstantin Engel are available again after long injuries.
One success factor is certainly coach Thioune, who, in the two years of his tenure, has transformed a third-division relegation candidate into a competitive and uncomfortable second-division team. As a preparation, the newcomer completed four test games. After a 1-1 draw against Aarau and victories against Siofok and Sturm Graz, the 2-3 defeat against the regional league team Verl was a damper in the last test game.
At the Bremer Brücke, relegation remains a realistic goal. The Purple and Whites could even achieve this goal prematurely. Before the start of 2020, the coach is “spoiled for choice” as far as the squad is concerned.
Only Klaas and Amenyido are injured. Taffertshofer has a yellow-red lock. Thioune has not yet committed to the goalkeeper position. Philipp Kühn has meanwhile established himself as an equal rival for budget number 1, Nils Körber.
Sandhausen:
SV Sandhausen is currently the team with the best form curve in the second division: the Palatinate have been unbeaten for eight games. If you stay at VfL without defeat, that would be a new club record. In total, the Sandhausen team were only four losers. Only Bielefeld and HSV have conceded fewer bankruptcies so far this second league season.
With nine draws, the Baden team are also the draw kings of the league together with Darmstadt. After a really good first half of the season, the SVS is just four points ahead of the relegation ranks. After the first five game days, the men from the Hardtwald were surprisingly in third place. But then you sorted yourself back into midfield.
The club completed the winter training camp in Chiclana de la Frontera. Here coach Uwe Koschinat mainly worked on game systems with one and two strikers. Since Tim Kister and Robin Scheu are ready for action again, the SV decided not to add new players.
With Kevin Behrens and Aziz Bouhaddouz you only have two trained strikers in the squad. The black and white won all three friendly matches: against Unterhaching, against Sevilla and the Spanish third division club Sanluqueno.
One of Sandhausen’s trump cards was the defensive. Here the back four has been brought in and goalkeeper Martin Fraisl is a sure support. The SVS had difficulties abroad. There was only one win in eight guest appearances.
This yield speaks more before the opening game Osnabrück vs. Sandhausen against a tip on a victory for the guests. At home, the Koschinat eleven were significantly stronger with only one loss and seventh place in the home table. Only Karl and Zenga are missing at the Bremen Bridge due to injuries.
VfL Osnabruck vs Sandhausen head to head matches
02.08.19 2BUN Sandhausen VfL Osnabruck 0 : 1
28.04.12 3LIG VfL Osnabruck Sandhausen 2 : 1
25.11.11 3LIG Sandhausen VfL Osnabruck 0 : 0
31.03.10 3LIG Sandhausen VfL Osnabruck 3 : 2
03.10.09 3LIG VfL Osnabruck Sandhausen 3 : 1