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Braunschweig (dpa / lni) - For the table 15.

In the relegation battle of the 2nd Bundesliga, Eintracht Braunschweig depends a lot on the outcome of the Friday evening game against FC Erzgebirge Aue.

«The game is very important.

When I see the rest of our program, Düsseldorf has a huge run and Hamburg wants to rise.

So it would be important to score points in our home games, ”said coach Daniel Meyer on Thursday.

One of the most important questions before this game is whether captain Jannis Nikolaou will be fit again in time after his Covid 19 illness and - if so - in which position he should play: in defensive midfield or as a replacement for the injured Brian Behrendt in defense ?

"We'll have to wait and see how he feels tomorrow," said Meyer.

"It is not so easy to come back after corona disease," said the trainer.

«We would have liked to have given him a little more match practice on Tuesday in Fürth.

But he hasn't felt that way yet. "

The question of position is also still open.

«In the sixth position, Jannis contributed a lot to our stability and kept a lot of pressure off the chain.

So I would like to put it back there.

It is to be expected, however, that he will have to run a little less in the central defensive position. ”

And that would be an advantage after his two-week quarantine.

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Meyer trained the opponent Aue (Friday, 6.30 p.m. / Sky) himself in the 2018/19 season.

“It's a real men's team.

You have a lot of experience and a lot of leading players, ”said the 41-year-old.

"Above all stands the outstanding offensive."

The two strikers Florian Krüger and Pascal Testroet brought Meyer himself to the Ore Mountains in 2018.

In the 3-1 first leg win against Eintracht, they scored all three goals for the twelfth place in the table.

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