Repeat performance for VfB

After last weeks victory over Bayer 04 Leverkusen in Düsseldorf, Markus Babbel will look to continues his unbeaten string while in-charge of die Schwaben against Hannover 96.

VfB will be without Yıldıray Baştürk, Matthieu Delierre, Timo Gebhart and Sebastian Rudy along with doubts of Cacau, Sami Khedira and Ricardo Osorio.

Markus Babbel said of the omissions:

"I'm in the lucky position of having 25 good players and not just eleven. We won't be taking any risks though, we have another game in St. Petersburg on Wednesday."

96 is weighed down with the eleven absences; Leon Andreasen, Steven Cherundolo, Jan Rosenthal, Valérien Ismaël, Gaëtan Krebs, Altin Lala, Chavdar Yankov, Sal Zizzo, Jan Schlaudraff, Vinícius and Jiří Štajner. Although stricken with bad lot with injuries, their record of success is based upon home play as they have yet to win away from AWD-Arena.