Duisburg 1st team lineup : G. Koch - 11 Wolters, 4 Möhrle, 3 Baelum, 7 Bugera - 29 Willi, 6 Hausweiler, 20 Grlic, 21 van Houdt - 18 Kurth, 15 Ahanfouf
Reserve : 26 Beuckert, 2 Tjikuzu, 5 Biliskov, 9 Rietpietsch, 10 Lavric, 13 Bodzek, 17 A. Meyer, 22 Michalke, 27 Anfang, 30 Lottner
Injured : Poggenborg, 8 Voss, 14 El-Kasmi, 23 Ivanovic
Experienced players like goalkeeper Georg Koch (ex-Kaiserslautern player), and skipper Dirk Lottner (ex-Köln player) under coach Norbert Meier will help the team to stay in 1. Bundesliga.
No much high profile transfer activities from Duisburg.
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Stuggart 1st team lineup : 1 Hildebrand - 2 Hinkel, 6 Fernando Meira, 5 Babbel, 21 Magnin - 7 Meißner, 20 Soldo, 11 Hitzlsperger - 22 Grönkjaer, 18 Cacau - 10 Tomasson
Reserve : 23 Heinen, 3 Stranzl, 4 Zivkovic, 9 Streller, 12 H. Gerber, 16 Heldt, 26 Caligiuri, 27 Rathgeb, 33 Gomez, 40 Gentner
Injured : 8 Bierofka, 13 Tiffert, 15 Elson, 17 Delpierre, 24 Schuon
Andreas Hinkel, Silvio Meißner and Cacau might not still be at 100% as they were still injured a few days ago.
Giovanni Trapattoni had taken over Matthias Sammer as coach. The team is much weaken by the leaving of German defender Philipp Lahm to Bayern Munchen, German striker Kuranyi to Schalke and Belaru midfielder Aliaksandr Hleb to Arsenal. However Danish forward Jon Dahl Tomasson and midfielder Jesper Gronkjaer joined Stuggart.
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Stuggart last 5 high profile pre season friendly : LLLWD F2 A6
Stuggart 0 Schalke 1
Udinese 1 Stuggart 0
Young Boys Bern 3 Stuggart 0
Bayern Munchen 1 Stuggart 2
Hertha Berlin 0 Stuggart 0
Not a good pre season friendly for Stuggart, scoring only in 1 of the 5 games played and even lost 3-0 to Swiss club Young Boys.
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Duisburg was 2nd in the 2. Bundesliga last season with very good home form. Stuggart had an average away form in 1. Bundesliga last season.
Stuggart had lost 3 of their best players, 3 1st team not at 100% and a few injuries to contain with. Added to that, they had a change of coach who bought in 2 players and had yet to perform, as seem from their few friendly.
As the host and being the 1st match, Duisburg will want to have a good start in 1. Bundesliga after an absence of 5 years. Fans and players will go all out for it. Duisburg will also have experience player in goalie Georg Koch and skipper Dirk Lottner to guide them.
Stuggart is just the right high profile team for Duisburg to show their worth. Afterall Stuggart is weaken and is finding goals hard to come by. Recommend to :icon_up:
bet Duisburg +1/4 win 2.06 with Pointbet :icon_up: .
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