On Sunday Apr 24th, Bochum will host Augsburg at Vonovia Ruhrstadion in a clash of these two evenly matched Bundesliga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 7 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. Bochum is fresh off their 0-3 loss against Freiburg. Lukas Kübler struck first for Freiburg in the 5th minute, then Roland Sallai added another in the 16th minute on a feed from Jeong Woo-Yeong In the end, Bochum was frustrated by Freiburg’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Freiburg ended the match with the shutout victory. Bochum is looking for direction having 3 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 14th placed Augsburg, recorded a 0-1 loss against Hertha BSC. Suat Serdar struck first for Hertha BSC in the 49th minute on a feed from Marco Richter, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Augsburg couldn’t manage to score, and Hertha BSC took the shutout win. Augsburg is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches.
On Dec 4th, Augsburg hosted Bochum at the Wwk Arena in their last match together. Bochum took the match by a score of 3 to 2. Sebastian Polter scored the first goal for Bochum in the 23rd minute, then Gerrit Holtmann added another in the 40th minute.
Augsburg hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last 5 matches are Michael Gregoritsch and André Hahn, and they each have 1 goal. Takuma Asano has been the most prolific scorer on Bochum in his last 5 matches with two goals
Jürgen Locadia, Konstantinos Stafylidis, Zoller and Danny Blum are unavailable to play for Bochum, while Noah Joel Sarenren Bazee, Tobias Strobl and Felix Uduokhai are unavailable to play for Markus Weinzierl’s team.