Record against Wehen Wiesbaden
Overall: 3 matches, 2 wins, 1 defeat, 5:4 goal difference
In Bundesliga 2: 1 match, 1 defeat, 1:2 goal difference
Last time out
VfB and Wiesbaden met earlier in the season on Matchday 9 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. The visitors ran out 2-1 winners, with VfB slipping to their first defeat of the season.
Familiar faces
VfB head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo played 76 regional league (fourth division) matches for Sunday’s opponents between 2001 and 2005. Wiesbaden’s Benedikt Röcker will be facing his former team, while Moritz Kuhn and Jeremias Lorch both cut their teeth in the VfB youth system, with Kuhn playing three times for the U21s in the third division in the 2011/2012 season.
They shall not pass
VfB have yet to concede a first-half goal in the current calendar year. Coach Matarazzo’s team also top the league when it comes to headed goals conceded (two) and duels won (53%).
Eye for goal
Mario Gomez has scored in four of his five Bundesliga 2 appearances so far in 2020, with the only exception being the match away to Bochum. His goal gave VfB the lead in the most recent home match of the season, against Arminia Bielefeld (which ended in a 1-1 draw).
Half-century
Defender Marcin Kaminski is set to make his 50th appearance for VfB this weekend.