Martin Harnik and Vedad Ibisevic lead the line for Stuttgart coming off the back of their 3-0 defeat at the hands of Freiburg at the weekend.

Sascha Molders retains his starting berth for Augsburg after scoring in the draw with Borussia Monchengladbach.

Stuttgart: Sven Ulreich, Gotoku Sakai, Serdar Tasci, Georg Niedermeier, Cristian Molinaro, William Kvist Jorgensen, Martin Harnik, Ibrahima Traore, Christian Gentner, Raphael Holzhauser, Vedad Ibisevic

Augsburg: Mohamed Amsif, Gibril Sankoh, Ragnar Klavan, Marcel de Jong, Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker, Matthias Ostrzolek, Koo Ja-Cheol, Daniel Baier, Andreas Ottl, Torsten Oehrl, Sascha Molders