He Stuttgart part today as a favorite against Arminia Bielefeld, of the third German division, in the final of the DFB Pokal that will be played, as is traditional, in the majestic Olympiastadion of Berlin from 8:00 p.m.
Ninth in the Bundesliga that ended a week ago after being runner -up a year ago and qualifying for the Champions League, the team of Sebastian Hoeness He hopes to save the course by accessing the Europa League with which he would be fourth DFB Pokal, after those of 1954, 1958 and 1997, in the palmarés of a Stuttgart that did not reach the final since 2013.
Gesta after a deed on its 120th anniversary
The historic Arminia, after achieving promotion to Bundesliga 2 as a league champion, dreams of crowning his 120th anniversary with the DFB Pokal in his first final after eliminating Union Berlin, Friburg, Werder Bremen and, in semifinals, Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen champion (2-1).
It will be, in short, an unprecedented, unexpected final, since the main favorites have been gradually falling. He Bayern Munichin eighths before the Leverkusen (0-1), and in the semifinals both Leverkusen himself and the Leipzigvictim of Stuttgart (3-1).
Before those of Hoeness surpassed three second teams, Preussen Münster, Kaiserslautern and Jahn Regensburg, as well as the Augsburg, of the highest category.
A Stuttgart plagued by international
Without so much renown and the German football giants, the Stuttgart squad is full of absolute internationals with the 'Mannschaft', from the goalkeeper Alexander Nübel to his strikers Deniz undav o nick woltemade, that has just been summoned by Julian Nagelsmann at 23 years for the first time in the face of the semifinal of the Nations League against Portugal, passing through the midfielders Angelo Stiller O Chris Führich.
But Stuttgart cannot be trusted with an arminia whose key to eliminating four teams from the Bundesliga has been a great intensity and a great physical delivery. Of his last 18 games, counting the league competition and the Copera, he has only lost one.
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Woltemade, Stuttgart's fashion player knows the coach well Mitch Kniatthe architect of the Milagro del Arminia. “He has drove all the third Bundesliga. I know the idea of the game he has, his teams have intensity. We have to be alert,” The young striker assures.
Arminia Bielefeld-Stuttgart
Olympiastadion de Berlin, 8:00 p.m.
Arminia Bielefeld: Kersken; Lannert, Grosser, Schneider, Oppie; Corboz, Russo, fright; Sarenren Bazeee, Wörl; Grodowski
Coach: Mitch Kniat
Stuttgart: Nübel; Vagnoman, Jeltsch, Chabot, Mittelstädt; Karazor, Stiller; Leweling, Undav, Leadership; Woltemade
Coach: Sebastian Hoeness
Referee: Christian Dingert
