📊 Form Guide

Holstein Kiel

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Holstein Kiel will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-2 Bundesliga 2 victory against Elversberg.

In that game, Holstein Kiel had 54% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Holstein Kiel, the goals were scored by Shuto Machino (39') and Philipp Sander (49'). Elversberg had 10 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

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

They’ve claimed a sum of 13 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if that pattern shall persist in this upcoming match.

Heading into this fixture, Holstein Kiel haven't lost in the league to Hansa Rostock in their last 3 matches.

Hansa Rostock

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Hansa Rostock will go into the match following on from a 1-0 Bundesliga 2 win as they beat Greuther Furth in their most recent outing.

In that game, Hansa Rostock managed 49% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The scorer for Hansa Rostock was Nico Neidhart (40'). For their opponents, Greuther Furth got 16 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

The trend of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Hansa Rostock has become fairly consistent recently. A glance at their last 6 outings reveals that it’s happened 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal total of 7 while Hansa Rostock have scored 4.

Going into this contest, Hansa Rostock have not been beaten by Holstein Kiel in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 06/05/2017 shows us that Holstein Kiel have won 3 of these games & Hansa Rostock 2, with the tally of draws standing at 1.

A combined sum of 21 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 11 of them from Holstein Kiel and 10 for Hansa. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.5.

The last league meeting between these clubs was Bundesliga 2 match day 10 on 22/10/2023 and the score finished Hansa Rostock 1-3 Holstein Kiel.

In that game, Hansa Rostock had 57% possession and 22 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. Their only player to score was Christian Kinsombi (18').

Holstein Kiel got 10 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Jann-Fiete Arp (33'), Nicolai Remberg (56') and Timo Becker (58') scored.

The referee was Richard Hempel.

ℹ️ Team News: Holstein Kiel

Colin Kleine-Bekel (Cruciate ligament injury) and Fiete Arp (Tendon tear) are not available for Holstein Kiel boss Marcel Rapp.

We are thinking that Holstein Kiel will probably use the 4-1-2-1-2 system for this game, utilising Timon Weiner, Timo Becker, Marko Ivezic, Tom Rothe, Marco Komenda, Philipp Sander, Finn Porath, Lewis Holtby, Steven Skrzybski, Shuto Machino and A. Bernhardsson.

📰 Team News: Hansa Rostock

Hansa Rostock boss Mersad Selimbegović has to choose a team with limited availability. Alexander Rossipal (Knock) and Elias Höftmann (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be playing here.

We reckon that Hansa appear most likely to make use of a 3-4-2-1 lineup, going with Markus Kolke, Jasper van der Werff, Damian Rossbach, K. Stafylidis, Nico Neidhart, Dennis Dressel, Simon Rhein, Kevin Schumacher, Kai Proger, Svante Ingelsson and Júnior Brumado.

🔮 Prediction

Hansa Rostock must be fancied to find the net against this Holstein Kiel lineup, but it isn’t expected to be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re expecting a 2-1 winning score for Holstein Kiel after the 90. Let’s wait and see how it plays out.

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Victor Martins, 11:34 30/03/2024