Lotte take on the visitors Borussia Dortmund in the postponed match of German national cup. The game will be played on Tuesday, March 14th.
Lotte represent the 3. Liga and the team currently occupies the third place with 40 points after 25 matches played. The hosts of the match are real contender for the promotion to Bundesliga 2. by the end of the season. In the German Cup Lotte has beaten three notable clubs, two of them representing Bundesliga: Werder Bremen 2:1 and Bayer 3:2, third one was from Bundesliga 2., Munich 1860 2:0. In the current season Lotte has played 16 matches at own turf, taking 7 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats. It’s worth mentioning that the club won 3 last home matches without goals conceded: vs. Munich 1860 2:0, vs. Chemnitzer FC 3:0 and vs. Hansa 2:0.
Borussia are showing impressive inconsistency in recent results. “die Schwarzgelben” were defeated on the road at Hertha BSC 1:2 last weekend, that ended their run of 4 wins with aggregated score 16:2: vs, Wolfsburg 3:0, vs. SC Freiburg 3:0, vs. Bayer 6:2 and vs. Benfica 4:0. Despite that loss to the Berliners, Borussia are in a good form, and as it may be seen from last results they will focus on the Cup matches at the end of the season. Tuchel’s team played 18 away matches in this season with 7 wins, 5 draws and 6 defeats, including 3 out of last 4.
Lotte and Borussia are teams of different levels, setting different aims, at least for now. Thus, there are no doubts in the visiting side’s triumph, but taking into account not very successful away matches of “die Schwarzgelben”, I am not sure they will be able to thrash 3.Liga side down on their characteristic manner.
Prediction for the match: Lotte to win with +3.0 Asian handicap.