Nearly 70 years after the SC Preußen Münster and 1. FC Kaiserslautern faced each other in the final of the German Championship and the “Red Devils” voted the best team in the country, both traditional clubs only meet in the third highest league next Saturday. In the short to medium term, both the Prussians and the Lauterer have undoubtedly made plans to return to the Second League. However, this claim logically still many other clubs, which may also be financially better positioned.
In the direct duel in the context of the fourth match day, it is primarily for the two teams to maintain the connection to the front seats. Between Münster and Kaiserslautern, the hosts are even traded as outsiders according to the quotas, which should primarily be related to the performance during the week.
In one of the most promising ascent candidates in Duisburg the charges of coach Hübscher were completely inferior over the entire season, so that the 0-2 defeat could ultimately be classified in the category, highly deserved ‘. However, the greater the motivation to make amends. At least the fact that the Münster won their first home game against Carl-Zeiss Jena is worth mentioning.
The first FCK is unbeaten on the other side, but won only one of the three completed matches. Especially offensively it hooked in the Palatine quite huge, which was underlined by the goalless draw against ten Ingolstädter on Tuesday evening. Since both teams – at least for the first impressions – are not necessarily for a lot of spectacle and also due to the starting position at this early time of the season is already a lot at stake, we would be ahead of the game Münster vs.. Kaiserslautern do not dare to bet on the outcome of the game and instead force a bet in the direction of a rather poor goalkeeping encounter.
Münster:
Three games are completed in the new season of the third division and already indicates much that the SC Preußen Münster 2019/2020 could be a real surprise bag. Coach Sven Hübscher has so far watched each of the three possible game outings. After a respectable 1-1 at TSV 1860 Munich followed a deserved 2-0 home win against relegation candidate Carl Zeiss Jena and a 0-2 defeat at the weekend MSV Duisburg.
With a balanced goal difference and four points, the green-blacks currently rank in the gray midfield of the table. To keep the connection to the front ranks, a sense of achievement on Saturday afternoon against a home crowd against 1. FC Kaiserslautern course would be worth gold. However, the fact is that it needs a significant increase in performance compared to the aforementioned defeat at Meidericher SV. In the highly-traded zebras the Prussians were in all respects hopelessly inferior and could be lucky that only shortly after the break of the first goal fell for the Lieberknecht protégés.
Otherwise, a higher score than 0: 2 would have been possible. Especially on the defensive revealed the former Bundesliga founding member repeatedly serious weaknesses, which invited the Duisburg to scoring opportunities. We would not be surprised if coach Sven Hübscher in the third game within eight days will be primarily concerned to strengthen his defense and to act more compact than last. In the match Münster vs. Kaiserslautern is the forecast for a maximum of two goals therefore not too far-fetched in our eyes.
Hope for a positive result against the Palatinate makes the fact that the Prussians in the home crowd are usually better estimate. This was confirmed by the mentioned 2: 0 against Carl-Zeiss Jena last weekend. In last year’s season, the ambitious Westphalia with only 15 goals conceded in 19 home games also the second best home defense of the 3rd league. In addition, all three previous third-division games ended in the 2019/2020 game with SCP stake with less than 2.5 goals. We should therefore before the duel Münster vs.. Kaiserslautern the odds for this definitely keep in mind.
With the exception of Joel Grodowski and Maurice Litka, the coach has all the players at his disposal. Changes in the starting formation are definitely conceivable, both for reasons of strain and because of the disappointing performance against the MSV. However, Sven Hübscher will probably not shake the 3-4-3 system, even though the Prussians are a bit more offensive and self-confident in front of their own fans than in the distance.
Kaiserslautern :
Experience has shown that the term “euphoria” around the Betzenberg is more cautious in recent years. Since the “Red Devils” are no longer among the best 36 football teams in Germany, this certain self-image, as a former champion automatically to lay a high expectation to the day, suffered quite. The responsible people will be happier that the start of the season can be described as successful. The charges of coach Sascha Hildmann have after three matchdays respectable five points in the account and are therefore still undefeated.
On closer inspection, however, it becomes clear that possibly even more could have been in it. Both in 1: 1 (after 1: 0 lead) against SpVgg Unterhaching as well as during the week against FC Ingolstadt (0: 0) were the Palatine over long stretches the dominant team, but it ultimately missed, the optical superiority to convert into countable.
Against the FCI acted the Hildmann Elf also over ten minutes in the majority, which the young 1st FCK squad still did not know how to exploit. As a fifth in the table and only two points behind second place, the mood in Kaiserslautern is nonetheless positive.
Only the offensive is currently more worrying. Although four goals after three matchdays are not an outstanding bad value, it must be remembered that only half of these goals fell in the relegation candidate SG Sonnenhof Großaspach within two minutes, as the Württemberger short time completely lost the order. Against massed defenses, the “Red Devils” are doing extremely hard, which favored our tip on tendentially rather few hits for the match on Saturday between Münster and Kaiserslautern.
To make matters worse, the coach has to give up numerous actors in the attack. Lukas Spalvis and Simon Skarlatidis have been out of action for some time. In the short term, Arni Bjarnason had to sign off with a muscle tear. Top scorer Cool weather, which left a surprisingly strong impression at the start of the season in a changed role in the central midfield, also threatens to fail, as he was sick during the week and even got an infusion from the doctor. Bakhat, Esmel, Gottwalt and Sternberg complete the bulging hospital, which may even ensure that coach Hildmann could live well in the Preußenstadion with another point win in the form of a tie.
