Given Augsburg's growing injury crisis and poor form of late, Stuttgart may smell blood at the WWK Arena this weekend, especially as securing a victory would bring another relegation rival into the mix.
Die Schwaben have hugely improved since replacing Bruno Labbadia with Hoeness a few weeks ago, and their confidence should be sky-high after their dramatic draw against title candidates Dortmund last time out.
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Data Analysis
Our analysis of all available data, including recent performances and player stats up until an hour before kickoff, suggested the most likely outcome of this match was a Stuttgart win with a probability of 45.91%. A win for Augsburg had a probability of 29.29% and a draw had a probability of 24.8%.
The most likely scoreline for a Stuttgart win was 0-1 with a probability of 9.63%. The next most likely scorelines for that outcome were 1-2 (9.28%) and 0-2 (7.63%). The likeliest Augsburg win was 1-0 (7.39%), while for a drawn scoreline it was 1-1 (11.71%). The actual scoreline of 1-1 was predicted with an 11.7% likelihood.