Augsburg vs Freiburg prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2024-02-24 18:30.
With just a dozen games left in the 2023/24 Bundesliga season, teams will be reevaluating their expectations as the campaign’s close draws nearer. One of those will be Augsburg, who after a horrid run of only one win in their last nine league outings (D3, L5) find themselves just two spots above the relegation zone, though they retain a seven-point gap to the bottom-three ahead of the round.
Their Achilles heel is clear and obvious, and as long as they’re the only side amongst those in Europe’s traditional big-five league who hasn’t kept a clean sheet this season, survival could be an ongoing battle. Their wait for a shutout looks set to continue as Freiburg visit the WWK Arena, against whom they’re winless in ten Bundesliga H2Hs (D3, L7), losing each of the last six encounters.
For the visitors, that’s both their best unbeaten run and winning streak against any of the current Bundesliga sides, a good omen to try as they attempt to revive an underwhelming season by their own standards thus far. Freiburg are loitering down in eighth place ahead of the weekend, four points off the top-six, within which they’ve finished the last two seasons.
Their recent form is partly to blame, as they’ve failed to win any of their last four Bundesliga outings (D1, L3), conceding three times in each of those games. Boss Christian Streich will look to leverage their midweek triumph as encouragement, after his side courageously came back from two goals down to beat Lens and progress to the next stage of the UEFA Europa League on Thursday.
Players to watch: Augsburg will be hoping to start strong by getting Phillip Tietz firing, given he’s seen all but one of his last seven goals arrive before half-time. He’ll be trying to outgun Vincenzo Grifo, who’s racked up nine direct goal contributions (G5, A4) in 13 Bundesliga meetings with Augsburg, including a goal and an assist in a 2-0 win earlier this season.
Hot stat: Augsburg have conceded before half-time in eight of their last nine matches.