The Bundesliga game at The PreZero Arena on Saturday sees home team Hoffenheim up against Union Berlin.
View all Hoffenheim v Union Berlin tips, stats and our pre-match poll below (including the best match odds).
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Form Guide
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Hoffenheim
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Hoffenheim will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-1 Bundesliga defeat last time out to Bayer Leverkusen.
In that match, Hoffenheim had 52% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 on target. The scorer for Hoffenheim was Gift Orban (62'). Bayer Leverkusen had 9 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Victor Boniface (15'), Jeremie Frimpong (19') and Patrik Schick (51') scored for Bayer Leverkusen.
Fixtures involving Hoffenheim have usually been absorbing encounters recently with a lot of goalmouth action being a real hallmark. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, a total of 29 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 4.83 goals per game) with 12 of those coming from Hoffenheim. We will see if that trend will be sustained here.
Going into this game, the form guide shows that Hoffenheim:
- have not registered a win against Union Berlin in their last 2 league games.
- have not won at home in their last 4 matches in the league. That's never good.
Union Berlin
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Previously, Union Berlin drew 0-0 in the Bundesliga match with RB Leipzig.
In that game, Union Berlin managed 47% possession and 21 shots on goal with 6 on target. On the other side, RB Leipzig got 6 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.
The stats tell the story, and Union Berlin have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 12 goals in all. In defence, Union Berlin have some weaknesses to address.
Coming into this meeting, Union Berlin have not won away from home in their last 6 league games.
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Head to head
A look at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 15/01/2022 tells us that Hoffenheim have won 2 of them and Union Berlin 4, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.
An aggregate of 19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 9 from Hoffenheim and 10 for Union. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.17.
The last league meeting featuring these clubs was Bundesliga match day 4 on 21/09/2024 when it ended Union Berlin 2-1 Hoffenheim.
That time, Union Berlin managed 51% possession and 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Goals were scored by Tom Rothe (4') and Woo-yeong Jeong (6').
Hoffenheim got 5 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Marius Bülter (67') was the scorer.
The referee was Matthias Jöllenbeck.
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Team News: Hoffenheim
Grischa Prömel (Cruciate ligament tear), Lúkas Petersson (unknown injury), Valentin Gendrey (Adductor injury), Umut Tohumcu (Ankle injury), Ozan Kabak (Cruciate ligament tear), Anton Stach (Knock), Diadié Samassékou (Muscle injury), Ihlas Bebou (Knee surgery), Haris Tabakovic (Inflammation in the knee), Christopher Lenz (Calf injury) and Oliver Baumann (Foot injury) will be missing for Hoffenheim manager Christian Ilzer.
It seems likely that Hoffenheim will probably make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this game with Luca Philipp, Arthur Chaves, Robin Hranac, Kevin Akpoguma, David Jurasek, Dennis Geiger, Finn Becker, Adam Hlozek, Andrej Kramaric, Tom Bischof and Erencan Yardimci.
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Team News: Union Berlin
Union Berlin boss Steffen Baumgart has some current player fitness concerns. Oluwaseun Ogbemudia (Foot injury), Aljoscha Kemlein (Knock) and Kevin Vogt (Knee bruise) are not able to play.
There’s a good chance that Union seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Frederik Roennow, Josip Juranovic, Danilho Doekhi, Diogo Leite, Robert Skov, Janik Haberer, Rani Khedira, Tim Skarke, Andras Schafer, Benedict Hollerbach and Ivan Prtajin.
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Prediction
We believe that Union Berlin will likely be able to score a goal against this Hoffenheim side, however that possibly won’t quite be enough to avoid defeat.
We’re going for a close game with a 2-1 win for Hoffenheim after the 90. We are expecting it to be pretty even.
Lucas Pereira,
14:06 08/02/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
⚽️ Team Focus:
Hoffenheim
Formed: 1899
Stadium: The PreZero Arena (30,150)
Captain: Oliver Baumann
Chairman: Simone Engelhardt
Manager: Christian Ilzer
Competitions: Bundesliga position 15
⭐ Key Man: Andrej Kramarić
Regularly used in the Striker position, Andrej Kramarić was born in Zagreb, Croatia. After having played his first senior match for Dinamo Zagreb in the 2008 - 2009 season, the dangerous Forward has bagged 7 league goals in this Bundesliga 2024 - 2025 season to date from a total of 18 appearances.