Hannover are 12th placed side of the German 2nd league. They are the worst attacking team in the whole league with 15 goals scored in 19 matches, together with bottom-placed Ingolstadt is the worst record. Their form recently improved indeed, but they are the unstable side that had luck in some previous games. Hannover are also doing better on the road where they collected 12 points, while at home they have produced 11. The team from north of Germany isn't yet directly in relegation worries in the league, but the gap is not too big with the 16th placed Sandhausen - 6 points separates two teams. Sei Muroya left the pitch after five minutes against Hansa Rostock in the last game due to an injury, and he is set to be out for several weeks. Lukas Hinterseer is also an injury absentee
In fact, this could be the key game of the season for Borussia Moenchengladbach. They are in weird momentum - winning over Bayern Munich at Allianz Arena 2-1 and then losing over Bayer Leverkusen in 2022. It's clear that visitors in this game have the better games against stronger opponents, but if they fail to take today's game maximal seriously, their season could go totally in a disaster. Currently, 12th placed in Bundesliga with 6 wins, 4 draws, 9 losses, a team from Gladbach have 3 successive losses at their home field while recently improving on the road. As for visitors team news: Denis Zakaria, Jonas Hofmann, and Mamadou Doucoure all took part in some form of training this week and some of these players could participate today. Joe Scally returned from corona and he could come into the starting 11 for this game.
Despite their league troubles, Borussia is aiming for a place in the 1/4 finals of the Cup for successive seasons. What is important to know is that Borussia usually ends up matches against Hannover easily recently as they won 7 out of last 8 games against Hannover since 2015 till now on.
