Stuttgart
Stuttgart have put collectively a five-game unbeaten run since they suffered a heavy 5-1 defeat to Crimson Star Belgrade within the Champions League. Die Schwaben kicked off their constructive run of type with a draw towards Werder Bremen, earlier than they recorded wins over Jahn Regensburg and Union Berlin the DFB-Pokal and league respectively. They then claimed a 5-1 dwelling victory over Younger Boys to spice up their hopes of reaching the Champions League knockout rounds.
After sweeping previous the Swiss aspect, Stuttgart returned to home motion to clinch a 3-1 away win over Heidenheim. Maximilian Mittelstädt, Enzo Millot and Nick Woltemade all obtained on the scoresheet to fireside Stuttgart to their first away league win since September, leaving them in sixth place and 4 factors adrift of the highest 4.
Sebastian Hoeneß’s aspect will now return to the MHP Enviornment, the place they’ve recorded three victories in 4 league video games, together with their final two Bundesliga dwelling matches towards Bochum and Union. In actual fact, Stuttgart have been a robust drive on dwelling turf all through the calendar yr, having misplaced simply certainly one of their 15 dwelling league video games in 2024 (W10, D4).
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The hosts are unable to name upon the companies of Deniz Undav, Jamie Leweling, Nikolas Nartey, El Bilal Touré, Dan-Axel Zagadou and Justin Diehl. In the meantime, Atakan Karazor will miss the sport attributable to sickness.
St. Pauli
St. Pauli are hovering one level above the underside three after profitable three, drawing two and dropping 9 of their 14 league matches. The newly-promoted aspect have discovered it tough to select up factors in current occasions, having misplaced 4 of their earlier 5 league matches. They started that run of video games with consecutive defeats towards Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach, earlier than they claimed a 3-1 victory over Holstein Kiel on the finish of November.
Sadly for St. Pauli, they’ve been unable to construct upon that end result of their first two matches of December, dropping 2-1 to champions Bayer Leverkusen earlier than falling to a 2-0 defeat towards Werder Bremen. On account of these two losses, St. Pauli are actually vulnerable to ending 2024 with three consecutive defeats. Alexander Blessin will hope his crew can keep away from that state of affairs, as they journey to MHP Enviornment with hopes of selecting up at the least some extent towards an in-form Stuttgart aspect.
Nonetheless, these hopes could also be tempered by the very fact they’ve misplaced 9 of their earlier 10 conferences with Stuttgart (D1) since they recorded a 2-1 victory in November 1996.
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The guests are with out the companies of Sascha Burchert, Robert Wagner, Connor Metcalfe, Elias Saad, Simon Zoller and Karol Mets.