Eintracht Frankfurt vs Darmstadt predictions and betting tips on February 7, 2023



On February 7, Deutsche Bank Park (Frankfurt) will host the 1/8 final match of the DFB Pokal, in which Eintracht Frankfurt will compete with Darmstadt. The battle will start at 20:45 CET.
Eintracht Frankfurt
The team is in its second season under the rule of Glasner. Oliver took, perhaps, the main trophy, at least in the recent history of “the Eagles”, on the first try, having won in the Europa League. Frankly speaking, they had to pay for this with a serious fall in the Bundesliga, where the team finished the previous cycle at the bottom of the standings. Nowadays, Eintracht manages to play successfully both at the inner and international arena. In the Champions League, the German club reached the play-offs, where there will be a game with Napoli at the end of the month. At the same time, the team from Frankfurt am Main is in the group of leaders in the Bundesliga. To tell the truth, there were too many draws, and the points were shared with both modest Mainz and strong Bayern. Still, the match with Hertha, which took place in the previous round, resulted in a confident 3-0 victory.
Darmstadt
The club has repeatedly won in the second division of the country. As a rule, it was almost impossible to stay in the elite one for a long time. After last relegation, “the Lilies” are playing in the Bundesliga 2 for the six years in a row. There it turned out to slowly but steadily progress from the 10th position in 2017/2018 to the 4th position in the end of last spring. The mentor, Lieberknecht, is not going to calm down: nowadays, he is leading the standings with his wards. The only defeat in the Bundesliga 2 happened at the beginning of autumn. The winter segment of the season started with a 2-0 victory in the match against Jahn Regensburg. And Sandhausen was completely defeated with a 4-0 score. At the same time, the team overcame Ingolstadt and, that is more important, Borussia Monchengladbach in the DFB Pokal in 2022.
The statistics of head-to-head matches
The clubs had got head-to-head matches in 2015-2017, that happened in the elite division of the country. Then, they beat each other a couple of times.
Predictions
Bookmakers consider Eintracht, which plays at home arena, to be the undisputed favourite of the battle. Still, the motivation of the team in this tournament is not clear. Thus, it is better to bet on “total: over 3.0” (odd: 1.88).





