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Hannover

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Hannover won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 3-1 Bundesliga 2 defeat in their last game at the hands of Darmstadt.

In that game, Hannover managed 60% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Hannover was Andreas Voglsammer (82'). Darmstadt 98 got 12 shots at goal with 7 on target. Fraser Hornby (1', 92') and Kyllian Corredor (83') scored for Darmstadt.

It has not been often in recent games that Hannover have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that Hannover have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 9 goals in the process. Having said that, time will tell whether the trend shall be sustained in this game or not.

Their prior results show that Hannover:

• have not been beaten in the league by Cologne in their last 3 games.
• are winless against Cologne in their last 4 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 7 league matches. Their supporters are understandably frustrated.

Cologne

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Cologne will go into this game following on from a 3-1 Bundesliga 2 win versus Preussen Münster in their last fixture.

In that game, Cologne had 58% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Cologne, the scorers were Tim Lemperle (11'), Timo Hübers (39' Own goal), Luca Waldschmidt (45') and Damion Downs (56'). On the other side, Preussen Munster had 9 shots at goal with 4 on target.

The stats don’t lie, and Cologne have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 5 goals overall. In defence, Cologne can certainly do much better.

Analysis of their past results shows that Cologne:

• remain undefeated by Hannover when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their last 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 21/02/2015, there has been little between the sides with Hannover winning 1 of those games, Cologne 1 and 4 being draws in regulation time.

A sum of 11 goals were scored between them in these games, with 5 of them for Hannover and 6 belonging to Köln. That is an average goals per game value of 1.83.

The last league match between the two was Bundesliga 2 match day 14 on 30/11/2024 and the score finished Cologne 2-2 Hannover.

That time, Cologne had 70% possession and 15 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorers were Tim Lemperle (48'), Damion Downs (81') and Florian Kainz (86' Own goal).

For their opponents, Hannover had 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Jessic Ngankam (25') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Sören Storks.

🗞️ Team News: Hannover

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the sole fitness concern for the Hannover manager André Breitenreiter to be concerned with from an otherwise complete group. Jessic Ngankam (Tibia and fibula fracture) misses out.

We think that Hannover will probably kick off with a 4-4-2 formation featuring Ron-Robert Zieler, Phil Neumann, Josh Knight, Marcel Halstenberg, Brooklyn Ezeh, Lars Gindorf, Fabian Kunze, Enzo Leopold, Kolja Oudenne, Håvard Nielsen and Andreas Voglsammer.

📋 Team News: Cologne

We reckon that Köln will likely utilise a 4-1-2-1-2 lineup with a starting lineup of Marvin Schwabe, Jan Thielmann, Timo Hübers, Dominique Heintz, Leart Paqarada, Eric Martel, Dejan Ljubicic, Florian Kainz, Luca Waldschmidt, Tim Lemperle and Damion Downs.

💡 Prediction

Here is a game where Hannover will need to apply a lot of pressure to be putting a goal past this Cologne team who we think should end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.

We therefore fancy a highly competitive game with a 0-1 winning score for Cologne at the end of the 90.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Lucas Pereira, 11:01 27/04/2025