For the three North German teams there is a clear division on the tenth game day of the 2nd Bundesliga: a top game, a midfield game, a basement duel.
FC St. Pauli will visit the sixth 1. FC Heidenheim on Saturday (1.30 p.m. / Sky) and will continue to be at the top of the table after the tenth game day.
With one win, Hamburg would expand their streak to four wins.
Hamburg - coach Timo Schultz warns of the fast switching game of the Ostwürttemberger.
Seventh-placed Hamburger SV is expecting not only twelfth Fortuna Düsseldorf at 8:30 p.m. (Sport1, Sky), but also around 40,000 spectators.
That would be a record since the beginning of the pandemic.
The numerical limitation on the spectator stands is no longer applicable due to the 2G rule (tested, recovered) that is applicable for the first time, as is the mask requirement.
After the weak game at Erzgebirge Aue (1: 1), the North Germans want to show a different face.
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Even after 14 years at 1. FC Heidenheim, coach Frank Schmidt has no plans to change clubs.
He would “of course also dare to do another job,” said the 47-year-old to the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” and the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” (Thursday).
"But the FCH is still a challenge for me," said the coach of the second division club:
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In the basement duel, the table 15 wants.
Holstein Kiel clinched his third win of the season at 1.30 p.m. (Sky) at the last FC Ingolstadt.
Marcel Rapp, who is looking forward to his debut “happily and optimistically”, will experience his premiere in the Kiel coaching chair.
Ole Werner's successor placed a lot of emphasis on tactics in training.
Only on match day does the coach want to decide whether Ioannis Gelios will return to goal after the red ban.
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