Cottbus Look to Build on Winning Start as Fürth Arrive With a Woeful Away Record
Jay Thompson ·
Last updated 15 August 2026. Energie Cottbus welcome SpVgg Greuther Fürth to the Lausitz-Arena on Saturday 29 August 2026, with kick-off scheduled for 12:00 UK time. Two matchdays into the new 2. Bundesliga season, Cottbus sit third in the table. Fürth are eleventh. The gap in current form is not subtle.
Cottbus: A Home Side With Intent
Cottbus have played one league game this season and they won it. Three goals scored, one conceded, three points on the board. Simple. They sit third in the early standings with a goal difference of plus two. The thing is, winning your opener matters. It sets a tone. It tells the dressing room what the standards are. Cottbus have done that.
Their home form data from last season backs the mood. They are averaging twelve shots per game and four on target at home. Forty-five percent possession. Modest, yes. But possession is not the point. Competing is the point. Every single home game in their recent sample ended with both teams scoring. Over 2.5 goals landed in every one of those matches too. This is not a ground where games go quiet. Cottbus play with energy and the crowd feeds off it. Opponents know they are in for a contest from the first whistle.
The concern, if you want to call it that, is the clean sheet record. Zero clean sheets in recent home form. They concede. If Fürth can get organised away from home, they might nick something. The question is whether they are capable of that right now. Based on the evidence, the answer is no.
Fürth: Dreadful on the Road
Listen, five away games without a win is not a blip. That is a pattern. Fürth's recent away record reads: two draws, two losses, and nothing else. No wins. They have conceded five goals in those five away matches while scoring just three. That is not the record of a team ready to go to a motivated home side and take three points.
Their overall form across the last ten games tells a similar story. Two wins, four draws, four defeats. Goals conceded stands at twelve. This is a side that leaks. And they are doing it against everyone, not just the top teams in the division. Last season they finished sixteenth in this league, conceding sixty-eight goals in thirty-four games. That is two goals per game, every game, all season. Unacceptable by any standard. Attitude, organisation, accountability at the back. All of it questioned repeatedly last term and the numbers suggest the problems have not been fixed.
They do carry injury concerns heading into this game. Two players from the Fürth squad are currently out. One has been out since February 2025 with a long-term injury and has no expected return date. The other has been sidelined since April 2026 with a major injury, also with no return date confirmed. Whatever their squad depth looks like, it is thinner than they would want it to be going into a tricky away fixture.
Their opening day result this season was a draw, one goal apiece. A point on the road is better than nothing. But it was not a convincing display of solidity or desire. Their current standing data shows they have conceded more than they have created in this early part of the campaign.
What the League Table Tells You
Two games into the new season, Cottbus have three points and a positive goal difference. They are already ahead of Fürth in the standings, and they have done it by winning their games rather than drawing and hoping. Fürth have one point from one game played. They need to start turning draws and performances into actual wins. A trip to a home side with momentum is a poor fixture to start that particular effort.
The thing is, second division football is unforgiving. Drop points in the opening weeks and you spend the rest of autumn scrambling. Fürth know that better than most after last season's struggles. The pressure on them to perform away from home is real. The evidence says they cannot handle that pressure right now.
No Head-to-Head Data Available
There is no head-to-head record between these two clubs in the data available for this preview. We work with what we have. On current form, league position, home advantage, and away record, the picture points one way.
The Verdict
Cottbus at home, off the back of a win, against a side that has not won away from home in five attempts. The home side has the desire, the crowd, and the early-season confidence. Fürth have injuries, a leaky defence, and a momentum slope that is flat at best.
Cottbus to win. Back it with conviction. Their home record produces goals so do not expect this to be tight and tense. Both teams scoring is a real possibility given neither side has kept a clean sheet with any consistency. But the result should go the home side's way. If Fürth's defenders bring the same accountability they showed last season, Cottbus will punish them. End of.
Selection: Cottbus to Win
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