- 1 Sonnenhof Grossaspach vs Augsburg: a 7-1 at the weekend, two saved penalties in August
- 2 Sonnenhof Grossaspach: one win in seven, but a goal in each of the last eight
- 3 FC Augsburg: five without a win, 12 goals conceded in that run
- 4 Free Football Prediction: Sonnenhof Grossaspach vs Augsburg
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Sonnenhof Grossaspach vs Augsburg: a 7-1 at the weekend, two saved penalties in August
Sonnenhof Grossaspach lost 7-1 to Wehen Wiesbaden on Saturday. Three days later the promoted 3. Liga side host FC Augsburg in the second round of the DFB-Pokal, at the WIRmachenDRUCK Arena on Tuesday 27 October, kick-off 17:00 UK time.
That scoreline explains why the visitors are heavy favourites, but it doesn’t describe how Grossaspach got here. On 22 August they drew 2-2 with 2. Bundesliga side Arminia Bielefeld after extra time and then won the shootout 3-0, with goalkeeper Maximilian Reule saving Bielefeld’s first two penalties before Uldrikis missed the third.
Elias Rahn scored after 12 minutes that night and Fabian Eisele equalised from the spot on 55, after Stefano Russo and Joel Grodowski had turned the game around with two goals in two minutes before the break. Bielefeld finished with ten men after Joel Felix’s second yellow card in stoppage time.
Grossaspach are one of only two third-tier clubs left in the competition. They came up after winning the Regionalliga Sudwest in 2025-26, and no previous competitive meeting with Augsburg is on record.
Augsburg arrive on a five-game winless run, and that’s what shapes this preview. Manuel Baum’s side keep scoring and keep conceding, and the market that follows from that is goals at both ends rather than a straight away win, which is likely to be priced too short for a side that hasn’t won since early September.
Sonnenhof Grossaspach: one win in seven, but a goal in each of the last eight 
Grossaspach have won one of their last seven competitive matches. Their recent run reads D, L, L, D, W, L, and the step up from the Regionalliga has been hard on the defence, with Saturday’s 7-1 the heaviest of those defeats and a 2-0 loss at Ingolstadt in late August another early setback.
Pascal Reinhardt’s side haven’t stopped scoring through that difficult run, though. They have found the net in each of their last eight games, including the one-goal reply against Wehen Wiesbaden, and they’ve taken 1.4 points a game at home over their last five there, against 0.8 across all their recent matches.
Fabian Eisele took the equalising penalty against Bielefeld, and the probable side pairs him with Pollex up front, with Maier, Kunde and Rossmann behind them and Celiktas sitting in front of a back four of Rahn, Aidonis, Nuraj and Molinari.
Goalkeeper Reule’s two saves in the Bielefeld shootout were the reason Grossaspach reached this round, and a cup tie that goes to penalties again would bring him back into it.
No injuries or suspensions have been reported on the home side, so Reinhardt has no absences to plan around. Rahn, who scored against Bielefeld, starts in the back four of the probable side.
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FC Augsburg: five without a win, 12 goals conceded in that run 
Augsburg’s last win came on 6 September, 4-1 at Eintracht Frankfurt. Since then they’ve drawn 2-2 with Bayer Leverkusen, lost 3-2 at Werder Bremen, drawn 2-2 with Bayern Munich, lost 4-3 at Elversberg and drawn 1-1 with Union Berlin on Saturday.
That’s 12 goals conceded in five games, an average of 2.4 a match, and only once in that stretch did they let in fewer than two. The attack has kept them competitive: they’ve scored 11 goals in four away games this season, and they opened the league campaign with a 3-0 win over Schalke.
Baum said last week that his Augsburg side are working to make their play “more consistent”. The results since haven’t shown it yet, but Augsburg have lost only two of their eight competitive games, and they went through the first round with a 2-0 at Energie Cottbus, Anton Kade and Kristijan Jakic scoring.
Baum also has a long injury list: Noahkai Banks (knee) and Calvin Brackelmann (head) are out, Sima Suso and Alexis Claude-Maurice have thigh problems, and Steve Mounie is expected to miss out again. Abdulai Juma Bah was sent off against Union and is suspended for Saturday’s league game at Freiburg, though he’s still listed in the probable cup side.
Rodrigo Ribeiro came off the bench at the weekend and is expected to lead the line, with Kade and Komur behind him. Dahmen starts in goal behind a back three of Bah, Matsima and Gouweleeuw, with Seol and Behrens as the wide players.
Probable lineup Sonnenhof Grossaspach: Reule; Rahn, Aidonis, Nuraj, Molinari; Celiktas; Maier, Kunde, Rossmann; Pollex, Eisele
Probable lineup FC Augsburg: Dahmen; Bah, Matsima, Gouweleeuw; Seol, Fellhauer, Keitel, Behrens; Kade, Komur; Ribeiro
Free Football Prediction: Sonnenhof Grossaspach vs Augsburg
Our prediction: Both teams to score
Grossaspach have scored in eight games in a row, and that run includes a 7-1 defeat and a 2-2 against a 2. Bundesliga side. Augsburg have conceded in every one of their last five games, 12 goals in total, against opponents ranging from Bayern to Union Berlin.
Augsburg should score more than once, too: Ribeiro, Kade and Komur face a defence that let in seven on Saturday, and the visitors’ away record of 11 goals in four games points to at least two, enough for me to expect them to go through.
The risk is a professional, low-tempo away performance like the 2-0 in Cottbus, where Augsburg kept a clean sheet. Their defending since then has been too loose to trust with a second one, and both teams to score is the pick.
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