📏 Form Guide

St. Pauli

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St. Pauli will play in this fixture following a 2-2 Bundesliga tied result versus Eintracht Frankfurt.

In that game, St. Pauli managed 28% possession and 5 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. For St. Pauli, the scorers were Manolis Saliakas (4') and Morgan Guilavogui (15'). Eintracht Frankfurt got 13 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Rasmus Kristensen (1') and Michy Batshuayi (71') scored for Eintracht Frankfurt.

It has been all too rare in recent games where St. Pauli have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that St. Pauli have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 6 goals during that time. That kind of pattern might not be sustained into this game, of course.

Leading up to this clash, St. Pauli:

• have not won against VfL Bochum in their previous 6 league matches.
• are without a win at home for the past 3 league games.

VfL Bochum

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Mainz in Bundesliga competition, VfL Bochum will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, VfL Bochum managed 45% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for VfL Bochum was Gerrit Holtmann (84'). For their opponents, Mainz 05 got 22 shots at goal with 8 on target. Nadiem Amiri (45'), Philipp Mwene (53'), Jonathan Burkardt (73') and Paul Nebel (93') scored for Mainz.

The attacking players from VfL Bochum have made hard work of scoring goals over their last 6 encounters, contributing the poor return of only 3. In those fixtures, Bochum have also seen the overall goal tally against them equal 12.

Their past results show that VfL Bochum:

• have not been beaten by St. Pauli in games played away from home for the previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 12/05/2019 shows us that St. Pauli have won 0 of them & VfL Bochum 3, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A sum of 14 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them for St. Pauli and 9 for Bochum. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The previous league match between these sides was Bundesliga match day 17 on 15/01/2025 which finished with the scoreline of VfL Bochum 1-0 St. Pauli.

On that occasion, VfL Bochum managed 51% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The scorer was Philipp Hofmann (67').

For their opponents, St. Pauli got 12 shots on goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Daniel Siebert.

🗞️ Team News: St. Pauli

Elias Saad (Muscle injury), James Sands (Internal ligament tear), Jackson Irvine (Foot surgery), Karol Mets (Patellar tendon problems), Sascha Burchert (surgery), Sören Ahlers (Fitness) and Simon Zoller (muscular problems) will not be taking part for St. Pauli manager Alexander Blessin.

In all likelihood, St. Pauli could use a 3-4-3 formation for the game with Nikola Vasilj, David Nemeth, Hauke Wahl, Siebe van der Heyden, Manolis Saliakas, Carlo Boukhalfa, Eric Smith, Philipp Treu, Morgan Guilavogui, Danel Sinani and Oladapo Afolayan.

📰 Team News: VfL Bochum

VfL Bochum boss Dieter Hecking has multiple availability issues to deal with. Mohammed Tolba (Adductor pain), Tom Krauß (Back problems), Ivan Ordets (Back problems) and Philipp Hofmann (Rib fracture) will miss out on this game.

We are inclined to think that Bochum seem most likely to elect for a 3-3-2-2 lineup, going with Timo Horn, Tim Oermann, Jakov Medic, Bernardo, Felix Passlack, Mats Pannewig, Maximilian Wittek, Matus Bero, Ibrahima Sissoko, Myron Boadu and Giorgos Masouras.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that VfL Bochum have it in them to find the back of the net against this St. Pauli lineup, however that possibly won’t quite be as many as they’ll concede.

Our tip is for a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 winning score for St. Pauli at the end of the 90 minutes. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

Andre Moura, 13:06 17/05/2025