Bundesliga 2025/26 Relegation Test | Augsburg
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Because the 2025/26 Bundesliga relegation race heats up, Get German Soccer Information is happy to launch “relegation examine” options checking in on German golf equipment preventing the drop. Our first topic occurs to be one which this explicit GGFNcreator by no means misses an opportunity to look in on. FC Augsburg shut in on the “35-point” Bundesliga security threshold after selecting up 5 wins because the flip of the 2026 calendar 12 months.
Baum’s second stint on the FCA bench has truly confirmed enormously profitable. Since Baum’s return to the sidelines on match-day 13 of the present marketing campaign solely Dortmund (27), Bayern (26), Hoffenheim (23), and Stuttgart (21) have picked as many or extra factors than his Fuggerstädter (21). The 46-year-old’s traditionally horrendous Schalke 04 stint within the autumn of 2020 nonetheless lives on in a single’s reminiscence, however grows fainter by the day.
Apropos recollections that don’t readily floor within the thoughts, Augsburg’s horrendous house kind close to the tip of the Sandro Wagner Period feels as if it passed off an eternity in the past. The final time Augsburg misplaced on the WWK-Enviornment occurred throughout the nightmarish three-match house dropping streak that culminated within the 0-1 house defeat in opposition to Borussia Dortmund on All Hallows Eve. Naturally, this needed to be the final FCA match the creator attended in particular person.
Augsburg gained once more at house this night, dispatching relegation rivals FC Köln 2-0 behind objectives from Rodrigo Ribeiro and Alexis Claude-Maurice. This outcome might wholly make sure that the membership by no means receives one other relegation race part. Maybe the partial membership “Roman Rebranding” that noticed the workforce tunnel redecorated to resemble a corridor designed for gladiatorial fight ended up working in any case.
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Augsburg’s win over relegation rivals 1. FC Köln within the Bundesliga match-day 24 Friday evening curtain raiser might show enough to get this Römerstadt out of the relegation dialogue completely. Congratulations are virtually already so as. The Bavarian Swabians made a giant deal out of commemorating their five hundredth official Bundesliga match with particular workforce tricots, prime class fan shows, and even an particularly ornate donation from the “Puppenkiste”.
As we’ll cowl a tad extra under, nevertheless, acquiring 4 extra factors to formally seal their sixteenth consecutive season of Bundesliga soccer might take a while. The short-term schedule stays particularly brutal. Irrespective of. With the strain off, it’s completely doable that Baum’s crew can produce a shock and clinch early. Failing that, they’ll at all times merely take their time.
Coach Test, Augsburg
Earlier than attending to the rest, we’ll need to expend a number of phrases on Baum himself. Will the person who went to nice pains to label himself a “reluctant steward” of his outdated membership truly find yourself extending his contract past the present short-term lease? Phrew. Wonderful query. One senses that Baum stays honest at any time when he unpretentiously insists that he needs to get again to overseeing the youth ranks.
After the Schalke humbling, he certainly prefers a much less worrying job out of the limelight. The opinion of the Ulrich Biesinger Tribüne is one other matter. The ultras within the FanKure clearly need him to hold on. Just a few extra weeks of collages and choreos may result in Baum renewing his curiosity in full-time Bundesliga teaching. There’s loads of very younger abilities on the FCA roster that might additionally use his assist.
Key Performer Test, Augsburg
Alexis Claude-Maurice, ATTM
We get to have some enjoyable on this part, checking in on the gamers most instrumental in engineering the workforce’s turnaround. The fabulous Frenchman can’t assist however lead the pack right here. The place was the person who recorded the primary ever FCA “Lupenreiner” final spring throughout the first half of this season? Duh. Actually nowhere. Claude-Maurice recorded one paltry help all 12 months lengthy earlier than lastly opening his 2025/26 Bundesliga account throughout the last match of the Hin-Runde.
Since lastly entering into second gear, the 27-year-old has added three extra league objectives. On two events (in essential wins in opposition to relegation rivals St. Pauli and Wolfsburg), Claude-Maurice has pocketed two assists. It appeared becoming sufficient that he scored maybe essentially the most decisive objective of the season this eve. The truth that all he needed to do was shoot into an empty web vacated by Köln keeper Marvin Schwäbe is irrelevant. Claude-Maurice merely deserved it.
Han-Noah Massengo, CM
A steal midfield hand that instantly took to German soccer (to the purpose that he even permitted journalists to name him “Hans Massengo”) deserves immense credit score for serving to the workforce this season. The previous Burnley man has began all 24 league fixtures to date. Whereas definitely liable to “off nights” (and tonight’s match occurred to be one), the 24-year-old has usually delivered immaculately within the clutch.
The scorer of the match-winner in opposition to Bayern Munich helped his workforce domesticate the assumption that they’ll beat nearly anybody. Massengo’s different objective of the Bundesliga marketing campaign, throughout the matchday 10 loss in opposition to Stuttgart demonstrated simply what a hard-nosed and decided footballer he may be. One actually likes this Frenchman. Regardless of all his tough and tumble tackles, he’s a good participant who has solely been booked twice.
Robin Fellhauer, RM
Earlier than one completely writes the Sandro Wagner Period off as a complete loss, one ought to contemplate the truth that it was Wagner to constructed the previous Elversberg captain up with a sequence of intrepid and versatile tactical deployments. The Mannheim native entered the season as a 27-year-old Bundesliga rookie with solely two seasons on the 2. Bundesliga degree underneath his belt. Each Wagner and Baum noticed match to make use of him in some capability in all 24 league fixtures.
Given his lack of prime flight expertise, Fellhauer has skilled loads of anticipated slumps. Up to now, he’s additionally gotten his identify on the scoresheet twice. A few of the discuss him stays overblown and the entire drama over his hospital keepcounts as hyperbolic. One ought to nonetheless salute the fighter from one in all Germany’s nice industrial jungles. He works exhausting to be efficient regardless of the task.
Rodrigo Ribeiro, LS
Ahem. Considered one of final week’s most celebrated new rising abilities has scored but once more. Watching the 20-year-old work in his second consecutive Bundesliga begin, the creator is caught by how gifted the younger Portuguese expertise is on the ball. Maybe in his third mortgage stint in his third nation, the Sporting CP loanee has managed to mix his uncooked expertise with that important little bit of confidence essential for a giant breakthrough.
Ribeiro should proceed to carry out on a way more constant foundation to be able to get his Bundesliga membership to contemplate pulling the set off on his buy possibility. A lot extra is required from him. Suffice to say that, for the second, Michael Gregoritsch might be starting to get nervous about doubtlessly being shipped again to Denmark. Who wouldn’t be?
Ways Test, Augsburg
Baum has successfully settled on a back-three system with outstanding wingbacks and a really tightly grouped second and third axis. Not a lot magic to report on actually. Such a constellation is exactly what one would anticipate from to see from a relegation threatened Bundesliga aspect. The association does an efficient job of controlling matches, if not boring observers profusely, till somebody on the upward cycles breaks via.l
Lineup—Augsburg, Spherical 23 (3-4-3)
Ribeiro scored his inaugural Bundesliga objective within the 2-3 away victory over Wolfsburg final week. Gregoritsch transformed off the bench from the spot. Elvis Rexhbecaj (additionally launched later) netted the winner in opposition to his former membership. Claude-Maurice arrange each Ribeiro and Rexhbecaj with one in all his patented two-assist performances. We basically noticed the identical factor in opposition to Köln in the latest spherical. The one change noticed Fabian Rieder launched. Fellhauer switched left to take over for Dimitirios Giannoulis.
Lineup—Augsburg, Spherical 24 (3-4-3)
It appeared as if Kristijan Jakic labored deeper, partially to permit each Rieder and Noahkhai Banks to push up greater in opposition to a considerably weaker Kölner left. Rieder and Fellhauer truly switched usually, maybe in an effort to throw their markers off. This labored very nicely. Banks delivered a superb match and registered an help. Mert Kömür loved a fantastic deal extra freedom and went on some enterprising dribbles.
Within the part on Baum above, we talked about that Augsburg’s academy director might want to proceed to work the Bundesliga bench to be able to reap the non-public rewards of continuous to develop younger expertise. What we’ve seen from Banks and Kömür these days may relate to a few of Baum’s deliberate grooming. Kömür, particularly, has stalled badly after all of his early season accolades.
Perhaps Baum performed a task in convincing Kömür to remain regardless of profitable presents from overseas this January. It’d show the case that, inversely, Kömür can persuade Baum that carrying on with the undertaking is worth it. A lot is dependent upon whether or not Baum believes he nonetheless has work to finish as the person operating the dugout.
Remaining Schedule, Augsburg
4 extra factors till Augsburg can safe security. This appears a forgone conclusion….till one seems to be on the remaining schedule. As famous above, we could also be in for one thing of a wait. How lengthy precisely? Gulp. There isn’t what seems to be a assured three-pointer till Could. That’s stated in all seriousness.
Spherical 25
RB Leipzig (A)
Spherical 26
Borussia Dortmund (H)
Spherical 27
VfB Stuttgart (H)
Spherical 28
Hamburger SV (A)
Spherical 29
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (H)
Spherical 30
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (A)
Spherical 31
Eintracht Frankfurt (H)
Spherical 32
Werder Bremen (A)
Spherical 33
Borussia Mönchengladbach (H)
Spherical 34
Union Berlin (A)
Throughout the identical run of fixtures within the Hin-Runde, the workforce solely secured two wins. Sandro Wagner secured an aberrant house victory in opposition to Hamburger SV. Originally of December, Baum guided the workforce to a house upset over Leverkusen. One wouldn’t wager secure cash on Augsburg, even of their present kind, successful both a type of fixtures away.
4 factors ought to come, however it gained’t be simple.
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