This big Bundesliga 1 - Play-offs meeting sees Heidenheim taking on Elversberg on Thursday.
View all Heidenheim v Elversberg tips, stats and our pre-match poll below - plus the latest betting odds.
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Form Guide
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Heidenheim
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Heidenheim will be hoping to bounce back here following a 1-4 Bundesliga loss in their previous game against Werder Bremen.
In that game, Heidenheim managed 51% possession and 21 attempts on goal with 8 on target. The only player to score for Heidenheim was Luca Kerber (80'). At the other end, Werder Bremen got 13 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Romano Schmid (14'), Jens Stage (33'), Marvin Ducksch (66') and Keke Topp (86') scored for Werder Bremen.
An interesting feature of more recent Heidenheim games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.
From their previous six clashes before this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on BTTS would have been a loser.
Elversberg
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Elversberg head into the match following on from a 1-2 Bundesliga 2 win with the downing of Schalke in their last game.
In that game, Elversberg had 54% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target. For Elversberg, the scorers were Lukas Petkov (20') and Maurice Neubauer (47'). At the other end, Schalke 04 had 14 shots on goal with 2 on target. Yassin Ben Balla (85') scored for Schalke.
In their previous six clashes, Elversberg have helped themselves to a total of 13 goals. Elversberg have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. Over that period, they’ve had 5 goals go into their own net. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be continued into this next game, though.
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Head to head
The previous league match featuring these sides was 3rd Liga match day 35 on 19/04/2014 which finished with the scoreline of Elversberg 1-1 Heidenheim.
The referee was Florian Badstübner.
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Team News: Heidenheim
Christopher Negele (muscular problems), Luka Janes (muscular problems) and Frans Krätzig (Ill) will not be able to play for Heidenheim manager Frank Schmidt.
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Team News: Elversberg
Elversberg manager Horst Steffen has to choose a team with limited availability. Patryk Dragon (Knee injury) and Frederik Jäkel (Knee problems) will miss out on this game.
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Prediction
Here is a game where Elversberg will need to apply a lot of pressure to find the net against this Heidenheim side who we think might well manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.
That’s why we have predicted a very competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Heidenheim at full-time.
A close call.
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⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?
Looking at what the bookmakers’ view is of this game in the win-draw-win market, victory for Heidenheim is best priced at 2, backing a draw is 3.6 & taking a punt on a win for Elversberg gets you 3.2. These are the best bets offered at present.
Peter Guest,
08:00 19/05/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Heidenheim
Formed: 1846
Stadium: Voith-Arena (15,000)
Captain: Patrick Mainka
Chairman: Holger Sanwald
Manager: Frank Schmidt
Competitions: Bundesliga position 16, Bundesliga 1 - Play-offs (Relegation Play-off), Conference League Qualifiers (Play Off Round)
⭐ Key Man: Adrian Beck
Normally deployed in the Centre Midfield position, Adrian Beck was born in Crailsheim, Germany. After having played his first senior match for Hamilton Academical in the 2019 - 2020 season, the dangerous Midfielder has scored 4 league goals in this Bundesliga 2024 - 2025 campaign so far from a total of 32 appearances.