DFB-Pokal

Two victories to Berlin

Can brave Bochum the big FC Bayern Munich beat? Only one of the questions in the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. It provides exciting duels and especially for a world champion in an emotional reunion.

“For me it is a special game, that is no secret,” says Kevin Champions League results before the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. For a few weeks, kick the world champion and Winter new signing at VfB Stuttgart. Now it goes for him on Tuesday (09.02.12016; 20:30) for the first Time on the big stage against his beloved Ex-club Borussia Dortmund.

“I burn myself and I’m happy,” explains Champions League results, “I have 27 years in Dortmund, lived. This is always my home.” But in Stuttgart, feel he is already “very good”. Twice won the versatile world champion with the Black-and-Yellow of the German championship, 2012 at the Double also the DFB-Pokal. “For Kevin, us and the Fans it will be a very special feeling”, also emphasizes Dortmund captain Mats Hummels. “This has never happened before, that one of the South stand against the BVB plays.”

The BVB is for Champions League results, “of course, a favorite”. Dortmund was “a Weltklasseteam.” Not for nothing are you Second,” he says, admits his new Club but there are opportunities. Thomas Tuchel expects a tough battle in Stuttgart. “This is national with the heaviest Team, against the one in play right now,” says Dortmund coach in relation to the VfB-series of seven Games without defeat and four Wins in a row. VfB captain Christian Gentner, for Tuchel of the “key players” in Swabia, believes this to be a victory: “This is a completely different caliber than the last few weeks, but the Cup is always something Special. A Surprise for us is absolutely possible.”

Bremen with a different face in the Cup?

Tiefstapler Schmidt: “A Realistic Chance”

Also in the second quarter-final duel on Tuesday (19: 00). between Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen is the Bundesliga. If you take the current Constitution as a benchmark, speaks a lot for the Leverkusen. You will have weekend the Bavaria
with a strong performance in a 0:0 from. The statistics but speaks clearly another language: All of the previous five Cup matches both Teams won at the end of Bremen. In the Bundesliga is Werder, however, at the Moment in the cellar table.

Therefore hopes ourselves Leverkusen Coach Roger Schmidt to an end of this curse and the first indent in the semi-finals since 2009. The longing of the football teacher for a title is great: “We are not light years away, there is a realistic Chance. We will work with passion and everything that goes with it, in the game.” Also for Vereinsboss, Michael Schade, has the Cup has the highest priority: “We want to know.”

Bochum lie in wait for their Chance

Munich Torgarant Müller: 14 achieved a hit in the Bundesliga, two in the DFB-Pokal

The biggest Surprise could be the VfL Bochum succeed. The second division on Wednesday (10.02.2016; 20:30) is the industry leader FC Bayern Munich as a guest. “The Bochum with the knife between his teeth, waiting for us”, refers to Bavaria’s top scorer Thomas Müller on the special character of the Cup, “I don’t think that it is a walk in the Park.” Müller recalls the last Pokalduell of both Teams in Bochum, in December 2011. At that time redeemed Arjen Robben, the Munich only with a goal in injury time. “It was very close”, says Müller. The VfL comes with a tailwind in this quarter-final. The last five Games is the defensivstarke Team of coach Gertjan Verbeek undefeated. Last weekend celebrated Bochum with a well deserved 2:0 success in the second division the top match against SC Freiburg. “The result gives us confidence for the Cup game,” said midfielder Thomas Eisfeld.

Herthas capital city in the Swabian province

Successful year: Dardai took over the Traineramt at Hertha BSC in February 2015

Before the supposedly easiest task of Hertha BSC on Wednesday at 1. FC Heidenheim (10.02.2016; 19:00). This Chance of the first semi-final since the season 1980/81 the League-third from Berlin not to be missed. “We allowed the opponent to underestimate. But so far, the boys always managed,” says Pal Dardai before the fourth Cup game of his team against a second-division team in the series. Already in the summer had the football teacher, the final in their own stadium as a target. Finally, the long Wait will have an end. Since 1985, the DFB Cup final in Berlin held so far always without the pros of Hertha BSC.