📏 Form Guide

Elversberg

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Elversberg will be hoping for a better result after the 3-1 Bundesliga 2 defeat in their last game at the hands of SC Paderborn 07.

In that match, Elversberg had 46% possession and 9 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Elversberg was Carlo Sickinger (51'). At the other end, Paderborn 07 got 16 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Adriano Grimaldi (54'), Raphael Obermair (61') and Sirlord Conteh (75') scored for SC Paderborn 07.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times that Elversberg have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Elversberg have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 14 goals along the way.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Elversberg:

• are undefeated in their previous 2 home league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 4 matches in the league. Things will have to change soon.

Hertha Berlin

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Last time out, Hertha Berlin drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga 2 tie with Hannover.

In that game, Hertha Berlin had 48% possession and 6 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. The scorer for Hertha Berlin was Marc-Oliver Kempf (12'). Hannover 96 had 16 shots at goal with 4 on target. Enzo Leopold (93') was the scorer for Hannover.

A very clinical Hertha Berlin have helped themselves to a surfeit of goals over their last 6 games (18 to be precise). That’s given them an ominous average of 3 goals scored per game for this period. We will have to see whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

↔️ Head to head

The previous league encounter between these clubs was Bundesliga 2 match day 15 on 03/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Hertha Berlin 5-1 Elversberg.

On that day, Hertha Berlin managed 53% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorers were Linus Gechter (12'), Florian Niederlechner (23', 61', 67') and Jonjoe Kenny (71').

Elversberg had 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Thore Jacobsen (15') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Sven Jablonski.

ℹ️ Team News: Elversberg

We are thinking that Elversberg may well use a 4-2-3-1 system this time, beginning the first half with Nicolas Kristof, Hugo Vandermersch, Lukas Pinckert, Florian Le Joncour, Maurice Neubauer, Thore Jacobsen, Robin Fellhauer, Manuel Feil, Paul Wanner, Jannik Rochelt and Luca Schnellbacher.

📋 Team News: Hertha Berlin

Out of a mainly healthy group, there’s just the lone fitness problem for the Hertha Berlin manager Pál Dárdai to be concerned with. Aymen Barkok (Facial fracture) misses out for this game.

We believe Hertha appear most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system with a starting lineup of Tjark Ernst, Jonjoe Kenny, Toni Leistner, Marc-Oliver Kempf, Deyovaiso Zeefuik, Pascal Klemens, Bilal Hussein, Palko Dárdai, Ibrahim Maza, Fabian Reese and Haris Tabakovic.

🧠 Prediction

We envisage that Hertha Berlin and Elversberg should both be able to find the back of the net at least once here although it’s difficult at this stage to select a clear winner.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square with both teams likely to score. We’re therefore anticipating a very competitive game with a score draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 11:01 05/05/2024