📊 Form Guide

Fortuna Dusseldorf

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Fortuna Dusseldorf will play in this fixture after a 1-1 Bundesliga 2 draw versus Elversberg.

In that match, Fortuna Dusseldorf managed 39% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Fortuna Dusseldorf was Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson (73'). At the other end, Elversberg had 25 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Carlo Sickinger (80') scored for Elversberg.

Fortuna Dusseldorf haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve managed to rack up 7 during that period and have conceded a total of 9.

Analysis of their past results shows that Fortuna Dusseldorf:

• have not lost a league tie with Nuremberg in their previous 3 games.
• are unbeaten in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Nuremberg

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against SC Paderborn 07 in Bundesliga 2 competition, Nuremberg and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Nuremberg had 59% possession and 3 shots at goal with 2 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nuremberg was Mahir Emreli (2', 92'). On the other side, Paderborn 07 got 16 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Tjark Scheller (20'), Ilyas Ansah (49') and Sven Michel (77') scored for SC Paderborn 07.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games involving Nuremberg, a minimum of three goals have been struck. The average number of goals per game within that spell is 3, with the average number of goals for Nuremberg working out to 1.5. Still, it remains to be seen whether such a trend shall be sustained in this next game.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels dating back to 15/10/2022, there has been little between the sides with Fortuna Dusseldorf winning 2 of those games, Nuremberg 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

A sum of 18 goals were scored between them in this period, with 11 from Fortuna and 7 netted by Nürnberg. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The previous league contest between these sides was Bundesliga 2 match day 14 on 01/12/2024 and the score finished Nuremberg 2-2 Fortuna Dusseldorf.

That time, Nuremberg had 55% possession and 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Finn Jeltsch (15'), Stefanos Tzimas (84') and Julian Justvan (90' Own goal).

On the other side, Fortuna Dusseldorf had 14 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson (67') was the scorer.

The referee was Lars Erbst.

📋 Team News: Fortuna Dusseldorf

It looks as if Fortuna look set to opt for a 4-1-4-1 formation in the match featuring Florian Kastenmeier, Tim Oberdorf, Andre Hoffmann, Jamil Siebert, Nicolas Gavory, Matthias Zimmermann, Moritz Heyer, Shinta Appelkamp, Í. B. Jóhannesson, Myron van Brederode and Jona Niemiec.

🗞️ Team News: Nuremberg

Nuremberg manager Miroslav Klose has multiple availability issues to deal with. Stefanos Tzimas (muscular problems) and Jens Castrop (Torn lateral knee ligament) are not able to play.

There’s a good chance that Nürnberg might make use of a 3-5-2 lineup, settling for Jan Reichert, Tim Drexler, Fabio Gruber, Ondřej Karafiát, Tim Janisch, Julian Justvan, Caspar Jander, Rafael Lubach, Danilo Soares, Mahir Emreli and Janis Antiste.

✨ Prediction

It seems to us that Nuremberg will need to play some great football to be scoring even one goal against a Fortuna Dusseldorf outfit who certainly have the ability to win well here.

We can see a convincing 3-0 win for Fortuna Dusseldorf when the referee blows the final whistle.

Lucas Pereira, 18:01 26/04/2025