2. Bundesliga Preview: Wagner starts Hannover reign in Magdeburg, Osnabrück host Dresden

Hannover seek three points in Sandro Wagner’s debut against Magdeburg, while Osnabrück and Dynamo Dresden lock horns on matchday 7 of 2. Bundesliga.

Magdeburg vs. Hannover

Former FC Bayern and Germany striker Sandro Wagner will start his 2. Bundesliga coaching career away at Magdeburg as Hannover hope for their second win of the season on Saturday afternoon.

The 38-year-old won the first game he coached in Bundesliga with Augsburg, but he was relieved of his duty only after 14 games. He’ll now hope to revive Hannover’s promotion hopes after replacing Christian Titz at the helm.

Magdeburg started the campaign with a 6-1 home defeat to Eintracht Braunschweig, but they won every game since then apart from the 2-1 defeat to league leaders Hertha BSC. Hannover won both head-to-head games last season with Titz facing his former club.

Predicted Lineups

Magdeburg: Reimann ©; Bockhorn, Müller, Garcia MacNulty, Nollenberger; Müsel, Kwarteng, Michel; Iyoha, Zukowski, Atik

Hannover: Weinkauf; Allgeier, Tomiak, Hugonet; Neubauer, Roggow, Thordarson ©, Oudenne; Hartel, Chakroun; Källman

Osnabrück vs. Dynamo Dresden

The newly-promoted Osnabrück collected seven points from the opening six rounds, which is a welcome return compared to pre-season expectations. Timo Schulz’s side tried to use the international break wisely as they played three friendly games.

Dresden’s solitary win of the campaign came on matchday 2 against ten-man Darmstadt. Since then, Thomas Stamm’s side have only picked up a single point from four games. However, their performance in the 2-1 loss to an invincible Hertha side was very promising.

Predicted Lineups

Osnabrück: Krumrey; Fabinski, Müller ©, Wiemann; Kammerbauer, Wagner, Jacobsen, Gomez; Kyereh, Beck; Meißner

Dresden: Schreiber; Sterner, Keller, Muhamedbegovic, Rossipal; Wagner; Covic, Hauptmann ©; Okpala, Vermeij, Bobzien