Last season, Stuttgart reached the quarterfinals of DFB-Pokal by almost eliminating Bayer Leverkusen but they were eventually defeated 3-2. This year, they commenced their cup campaign by winning the 1st round of the cup with a score of 5-0, followed by 2-1 against Kaiserslautern and 3-0 against Regensburg. Nevertheless, Stuttgart are currently on a bad streak after losing three straight matches in all competitions which caused them to slip out of the Bundesliga’s top 4, and also miss out on the UEFA Champions League qualifying positions. This DFB-Pokal encounter will be highly important for them to end this slump and book a spot in the semifinals.
Conversely, Augsburg goes on a fantastic run off the back of 4 matches where they have been unbeaten, having won three and drawn one. This has given them some breathing space from the relegation places. In the DFB-Pokal, they kicked off their campaign with a 4-1 victory in the opening round, followed by defeats of Schalke 3-0 and Karlsruher 3-2. It is a far cry from last year, when they got eliminated in the first round by a team from the third division (0-2). Augsburg have not progressed beyond the DFB-Pokal quarter finals since the 2018/19 season, but, with such good form, those hopes are raised much higher.
Stuttgart: Nübel, Vagnoman, Rouault, Leistner, Mittelstädt, Larsen, Karazor, Stiller, Führich, Undav, Woltemade
Augsburg: Damen, Mačíma, Gouweleeuw, Banks, Wolf, Rexhbecaj, Onyedika, Giannoulis, Maier, Claude-Maurice, Esende
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