Kovac is about to resume the reins of the interim boss Mike Tullberg, who took care of 3 games after the dismissal of Nuri şahin last month. Tullberg his transitional destination with a 2-2 draw opposite to Werder Bremen, before supervising the victories in the Shakhtar Donetsk and Heidenheim in the Champions League and in the Bundesliga respectively.
While Dortmund had possibly obtained Heidenheim’s older last weekend, Kovac takes care of an aspect that is recently sitting at the back of the Bundesliga table. Of their 20 league games this season, leaving 4 problems drifting with the most sensible 4. kovac will hope to close that hole in its first game in charge, before directing your attention to the Tuesday Champions League with Lisbon Sporting in the Playoffs at the beginning look.
Saturday’s hosts have struggled in recent league outings at Signal Iduna Park, having drawn three and lost one of their previous four Bundesliga home matches since they beat Freiburg 4-0 in November. They have also gone five games without a win against Stuttgart, including defeats in each of their last four head-to-head meetings.
Dortmund is the injured duo of Niklas Süle and Felix Nmecha, while Nico Schlotterbeck will serve the time for a prohibition of two games.
Stuttgart, fifth, only sat the top 4 after winning nine, pulling five and wasting six of their 20 Bundesliga games this season. Sebastian Hoeneß’s side have had a slump in their last two championship games, squandering 2-0 away from the opposite gates to Mayin, before falling into a 2-1 defeat last Saturday’s home clash with Borussia Mönchengladbach. However, they had no victorious problems emerging on the DFB-Pokal link on Tuesday opposite Augsburg. Deniz undav’s effort in the first half proved to be enough to earn a 1-0 win at home, Seal Stuttgart a semi-final position for the time being in 3 seasons.
Die Schwaben will now return to league action for the holidays on Saturday to point to Iduna Park. The visitors are looking to finish a league double-header in Dortmund after winning a 5-1 win in September’s reversed match. They also won two of their last 4 championship games away from the gates Dortmund (L2), adding a 1-0 win in their last Doors Assembly in April 2024.
Stuttgart calls up Dan-Axel Zagadou, El Bilal Touré, Luca Raimund and Ameen al-Dakhil, while Hoeneß also revealed that there are doubts surrounding the availability of Enzo Millot, Nick Woltemade, Josha Vagnuman and Jacob Bruun-Larsen.
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