After the cup break and a draw with Atalanta, the host team returns to the league competition, they are in shape, which they showed by beating Dortmund 4: 1. The guests, on the other hand, experience a slight crisis of form, the defeat with Bohum and Herta shows where they are now. Their form overlaps with a large number of injured, basically all the main defenders outside the game: Akpoguma, Asllani, Bicakcic, John, Posch, Raum, Vogt.