
DFB-Pokal Wednesday Preview
Bayern Munich will face a familiar foe in the last 16 of the DFB-Pokal on as they look to complete the "double" over Eintracht Frankfurt.
The two teams met in the Bundesliga on Saturday, with Bayern emerging 2-1 winners from that clash to climb to fourth in the standings.
And Louis van Gaal's men will be confident of getting the better of Eintracht again in midweek as the teams battle for a place in the quarter-finals of the cup.
Bayern general manager Uli Hoeness said: "I hope it'll be end-to-end stuff. The crowd should be treated to plenty of action in the cup.
"We want to go through and make it to (the final in) Berlin - and Frankfurt is basically halfway there."
With the top two in the Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburg, already out of the cup, Werder Bremen will be hoping their absence can pave the way for a route to the final.
Werder stretched their unbeaten run to 15 games with a 4-1 win at Bochum on Saturday, with the team now third in the league.
But things may not be so straightforward on Wednesday when they take on Kaiserslautern, the second division side who accounted for Leverkusen in the last round of the cup.
Schalke also face lower-league opposition with a trip to 1860 Munich, while Hoffenheim striker Vedad Ibisevic expects a tricky time against TuS Koblenz in their last-16 meeting on Wednesday.
"The game against Koblenz is going to be difficult so we've got to give everything in order to win," he said.
The third round gets under way tomorrow with Stuttgart travelling to Greuther Furth, Cologne making the trip to Eintracht Trier, Borussia Dortmund taking on Osnabruck and Duisburg playing FC Augsburg.
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