Overview
- Kickoff is 20:45 CET at Kiel’s Holstein-Stadion with live coverage on ZDF, Sky, ZDF Mediathek and Joyn.
- Stuttgart travel as defending champions and clear favorites, with coach Sebastian Hoeneß billing it a very important cup game and eyeing another semi-final berth.
- Second-division Kiel ride underdog momentum after eliminating VfL Wolfsburg and Hamburger SV earlier in this cup run.
- VfB sport chief Fabian Wohlgemuth, formerly of Kiel, called the trip an extremely hard job and stressed the need to blunt the Holstein-Stadion atmosphere.
- Stuttgart will be without Dan-Axel Zagadou, Lazar Jovanović and Tiago Tomás for the quarterfinal.