Quote from: Velvet78 on Today at 10:26:50 AM

We didn't see a big rotation from Leverkusen in their DFB Pokal game against Paderborn yesterday. The strongest rotation was in the defense line as the goalkeeper and defenders were all different than their previous league game. The rest of the lineup was pretty much the same. They got a decent win and moved on there.

Stuttgart played a much more difficult game against Dortmund on paper. However I was still expecting them to eliminate Dortmund and they really did it.

Stuttgart are in a better condition than Dortmund now and I expect them to be very ambitious in the DFB Pokal cup as well.

Leverkusen was very serious about this match even though the opponent they faced was a weak team so Xabi Alonso didn't make many rotations, this was a fairly natural win.
And in the Stuttgart versus Dotmund match, I was a little surprised because Dortmund didn't seem to prepare this match well even though Stuttgart is a very strong team this season, Dortmund should be able to field all its main players.