Overview
- Union’s strikers have not scored since the 4–3 win at Eintracht Frankfurt on matchday four, a drought Baumgart called unacceptable.
- The team enters the game after three straight competitive defeats and sits 12th with a four-point cushion over the relegation playoff place.
- Baumgart urged greater “clarity” in the box and said merely keeping up with Leipzig will not be enough.
- Augsburg interim coach Manuel Baum will manage his 100th Bundesliga match at Frankfurt after beating Bayer Leverkusen 2–0, and he now leans toward a riding share rather than buying the horse he promised his daughter.
- Augsburg expect Elias Saad to return to the squad for Frankfurt, with Saad, Ismaël Gharbi and Samuel Essende due to depart next week for Africa Cup of Nations duty.