On Sat Feb 4th, in week 19, Eintracht Braunschweig will play host to Heidenheim in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched 2. Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, with daytime temperatures of only 2 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. In their last match, 16th placed Eintracht Braunschweig, recorded a 2-4 loss against Hamburger SV. Robert Glatzel scored the first goal for Hamburger SV in the 3rd minute, then Moritz Heyer added another in the 17th minute on a feed from Jean-Luc Dompe. Eintracht Braunschweig is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches, while heidenheim sits at 3rd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Hansa Rostock. Tim Kleindienst scored the first goal for Heidenheim in the 80th minute, then Florian Pick added another in the 88th minute In the end, Hansa Rostock couldn’t muster any offence and Heidenheim ran away with the shutout win. With 21 points in their last 10 matches Heidenheim should be reasonably happy with their performance.
Eintracht Braunschweig and Heidenheim last played eachother at the Voith-arena on Saturday Jul 23rd. Heidenheim was victorious by a score of 3 to 0. Strompf struck first for Heidenheim on an own goal in the 10th minute, then Tim Kleindienst added another in the 61st minute on a feed from Jan-Niklas Beste At the end of 90 a dissapointed Eintracht Braunschweig couldn’t manage to score, and Heidenheim took the shutout win.
Andreas Geipl has been the most prolific scorer on Heidenheim in his last 5 matches with two goals. Eintracht Braunschweig is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Enrique Peña Zauner and Anthony Ujah each only have 1 goal in their last 5.