📊 Form Guide

Eintracht Braunschweig

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Eintracht Braunschweig will be hoping for a better result after a 2-0 Bundesliga 2 loss in their previous game against Fortuna Dusseldorf.

In that match, Eintracht Braunschweig managed 40% possession and 14 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. At the other end, Fortuna Dusseldorf had 14 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Felix Klaus (42') and Christos Tzolis (55') scored for Fortuna Dusseldorf.

It has not been often in recent games where Eintracht Braunschweig haven’t conceded. The facts show that Eintracht Braunschweig have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, letting in 7 goals along the way. Let’s find out whether or not that trend can be sustained into this next match.

Hannover

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In their last fixture, Hannover drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga 2 match with Schalke.

In that game, Hannover managed 59% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. At the other end, Schalke 04 got 11 shots on goal with 5 on target. Assan Ouédraogo (17') and Paul Seguin (81' Own goal) scored for Schalke.

The stats don’t lie, and Hannover have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 6 goals overall. Defensively, Hannover could really do with shoring things up.

Heading into this contest, Hannover are undefeated in their previous 2 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 15/04/2017 tells us that Eintracht Braunschweig have won 1 of these games & Hannover 4, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

A combined total of 14 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 4 from Braunschweig and 10 netted by Hannover. That’s an average goals per game of 2.33.

The last league clash between these sides was Bundesliga 2 match day 12 on 05/11/2023 and the score finished Hannover 2-0 Eintracht Braunschweig.

On that day, Hannover managed 70% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Fabian Kunze (12') and Marcel Halstenberg (42').

Eintracht Braunschweig got 1 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

The referee was Sascha Stegemann.

🗞️ Team News: Eintracht Braunschweig

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just the lone fitness concern for the Eintracht Braunschweig gaffer Daniel Scherning to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy group. Yannik Bangsow (Shoulder injury) misses out.

In all likelihood, Braunschweig may well use the 3-5-2 formation this time featuring Ron-Thorben Hoffmann, Robert Ivanov, Ermin Bicakcic, Hasan Kurucay, Marvin Rittmüller, Fabio Kaufmann, Robin Krauße, T. Jóhann Helgason, Anton Donkor, Anthony Ujah and Rayan Philippe.

ℹ️ Team News: Hannover

Due to a completely healthy group available to select from, the Hannover manager Stefan Leitl does not have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash.

We’re of the thinking that Hannover seem most likely to utilise a 4-1-2-1-2 formation, settling for Ron-Robert Zieler, Sei Muroya, Phil Neumann, Marcel Halstenberg, Bright Arrey-Mbi, Max Christiansen, Jannik Dehm, Sebastian Ernst, Cedric Teuchert, Håvard Nielsen and Nicolo Tresoldi.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that Eintracht Braunschweig will have their work cut out to get anything against this Hannover outfit who we think will do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 0-1 winning margin for Hannover at the end of the 90.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

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Peter Guest, 11:05 14/04/2024