Augsburg vs. Heidenheim preview: Visitors hoping to end winless away run | OneFootball

Augsburg

Augsburg will head into the weekend in a positive mood after enjoying a couple of successful away trips. The Fuggerstädter recorded a 2-0 victory over Union Berlin, before they repeated that scoreline in last Sunday’s trip to the Weserstadion. Samuel Essende’s first-half brace proved enough to sweep past Werder Bremen, ensuring Augsburg could celebrate back-to-back away league wins for the first time since March last year.

As a result of those two victories, Jess Thorup’s side are now sitting in 12th position in the table, with an eight-point buffer to Heidenheim in the relegation playoff spot. In fact, Augsburg are closer to the European places with six points separating them from Mainz in sixth position

The Fuggerstädter will now return to the WWK Arena, where they have lost their last two matches against Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart without troubling the scorers. They may be able to take confidence from the fact they recorded a 1-0 victory in their only previous Bundesliga home meeting with Heidenheim in March 2024.

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The hosts are unable to call upon Yusuf Kabadayi and Reece Oxford, while Cédric Zesiger will serve a one-match ban for an accumulation of yellow cards.

Heidenheim

Heidenheim are currently languishing in the bottom three after winning four, drawing two and losing 12 of their 18 league games this season. Frank Schmidt’s side returned from the winter break with a 2-0 win over Union, before they fought back on three occasions to take a point from their away meeting with Bremen. However, they were unable to make it three games without defeat in last Saturday’s home meeting with relegation rivals St. Pauli. Johannes Eggestein scored a first-half penalty, before Morgan Guilavogui doubled the advantage in the 92nd minute to condemn Heidenheim to a fourth defeat in five home league games.

They will now head on their travels with aspirations of ending their six-game winless away league run (D1, L5). Having conceded 18 goals in those six matches, Saturday’s visitors know they need to improve defensively if they are to claim their first Bundesliga away win since beating Mainz 2-0 on September 28.

Heidenheim will have the chance to claim a league double over Augsburg after easing to a 4-0 victory in September’s reverse fixture. On that occasion, Paul Wanner, Léo Scienza, Adrian Beck and Maximilian Breunig all found the net to guide their team to a comfortable win.

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The visitors are without the injured trio of Niklas Dorsch, Mathias Honsak and Julian Niehues.