In a weekend match in week 11, on Saturday Oct 22nd, Augsburg hosts RB Leipzig in a clash of these two evenly matched Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 11 degrees, a perfect day for football. Augsburg is fresh off their 2-3 loss against Köln. Florian Niederlechner struck first for Augsburg in the 14th minute on a feed from Frederik Franck Winther, then Steffen Tigges tied it up for Köln in the 47th minute Finally they completed the comback in the 81st minute on a goal by Steffen Tigges to cap off a wild match. Augsburg is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches, while rB Leipzig sits at 10th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 4-0 shutout win against Hamburger SV. Yussuf Poulsen struck first for RB Leipzig in the 33rd minute on a feed from Mohamed Simakan, then Yussuf Poulsen added another in the 36th minute In the end, Hamburger SV couldn’t muster any offence and RB Leipzig ran away with the shutout win. RB Leipzig should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 19 points in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, RB Leipzig took the match by a score of 3 to 0. Willi Orbán struck first for RB Leipzig in the 11th minute on a feed from Angeliño, then Yussuf Poulsen added another in the 75th minute In the end, Augsburg couldn’t muster any offence and RB Leipzig ran away with the shutout win.
Both André Silva and Christopher Nkunku have been the hottest scorers for RB Leipzig in the last five each having scored 2 goals each. Ermedin Demirović has been the most prolific scorer on Augsburg in his last five matches with 3 goals
André Hahn, Reece Oxford, Jeffrey Gouweleeuw, Noah Joel Sarenren Bazee, Tobias Strobl, Felix Uduokhai, Mergim Berisha, Maximilian Bauer and Rafał Gikiewicz are unavailable to play for Augsburg, while Marcel Halstenberg, Konrad Laimer, Lukas Klostermann and Péter Gulácsi are unavailable to play for RB Leipzig.