While the world waits for Wednesday's slate featuring a wounded Hertha BSC Berlin hosting Borussia Mönchengladbach as well as the matchups of VfB Stuttgart-FC Bayern Munich and 1899 Hoffenheim-Greuther Fürth, the German Cup has quite a clash set for Tuesday.
It's a classic David v. Goliath showdown between Holstein Kiel and Borussia Dortmund. The underdogs from Kiel are in the fourth tier of German football but understand that they have outscored their last three Cup opponents 7-0.
Dortmund are the champions of Germany, but they will be without influential midfielder Sven Bender, and are already without über-star Mario Götze.
In addition, Dortmund usually crash out of the cup, advancing past the quarter-finals once in the last 23 campaigns.
Kiel may have an emotional edge. Kiel's Fabian Wetter told the Neue Westfaelische Zeitung: "It is not easy for other teams to play at a fourth-division team. The opponents are scared to embarrass themselves, and some also forget that we have some really good footballers within our ranks."
The temperature is expected to be in single digits Fahrenheit. The snowy conditions should help the underdogs and anything is possible when the DfB-Pokal is on the line!
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