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St. Pauli

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St. Pauli are hoping to win again following a 1-2 Bundesliga 2 success versus Hannover.

In that match, St. Pauli managed 56% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For St. Pauli, the goalscorers were Oladapo Afolayan (41') and Johannes Eggestein (65'). At the other end, Hannover 96 had 16 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. Lars Gindorf (45') scored for Hannover.

Fixtures featuring St. Pauli have often been lively affairs of late with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum total of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 12 of these being chalked up by St. Pauli.

Coming into this contest, St. Pauli are unbeaten in the league by Hansa Rostock in their last 2 matches.

Hansa Rostock

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Magdeburg in Bundesliga 2 competition, Hansa Rostock and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Hansa Rostock had 53% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Magdeburg got 10 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Luca Schuler (18') and Daniel Heber (40') scored for Magdeburg.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring Hansa Rostock has been noticeable in recent matches. Looking at their last six meetings reveals that this has happened 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 9 and Hansa Rostock have scored 5. That aside, we will just have to wait and see if that trend will persist in this upcoming game or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Hansa Rostock:

• have not won against St. Pauli in games played away from home for the previous 5 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 22/04/2012 shows us that St. Pauli have won 4 of them and Hansa Rostock 2, with the number of draws standing at 0.

16 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 11 of them for St. Pauli and 5 for Hansa. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league match between the two was Bundesliga 2 match day 14 on 25/11/2023 and the score finished Hansa Rostock 2-3 St. Pauli.

In that game, Hansa Rostock managed 38% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player to score was Júnior Brumado (9', 80').

St. Pauli had 18 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Manolis Saliakas (15'), Marcel Hartel (18') and Oladapo Afolayan (23') scored.

The match was refereed by Robin Braun.

ℹ️ Team News: St. Pauli

Sören Ahlers (unknown injury), Philipp Treu (Broken fibula), Simon Zoller (Hamstring injury), Eric Smith (muscular problems), Carlo Boukhalfa (Hip problems) and Scott Banks (Cruciate ligament tear) will be missing for St. Pauli manager Fabian Hürzeler.

It’s our opinion that St. Pauli will possibly use a 3-4-3 formation in the match, utilising Nikola Vasilj, David Nemeth, Hauke Wahl, Karol Mets, Manolis Saliakas, Jackson Irvine, Aljoscha Kemlein, Conor Metcalfe, Oladapo Afolayan, Johannes Eggestein and Marcel Hartel.

📋 Team News: Hansa Rostock

Hansa Rostock manager Mersad Selimbegović has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Lukas Scherff (Muscle injury) and Elias Höftmann (Cruciate ligament tear) are not ready for selection. Damian Roßbach is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

From our viewpoint, Hansa appear most likely to make use of a 3-4-2-1 formation, starting the game with Markus Kolke, Jonas David, Jasper van der Werff, Alexander Rossipal, Nils Froeling, John-Patrick Strauss, Janik Bachmann, Dennis Dressel, Sebastian Vasiliadis, Svante Ingelsson and Juan Perea.

✨ Prediction

Our thinking is that St. Pauli have it within them to get a couple of goals in this one when they play Hansa Rostock, who won’t find it easy to score themselves.

Therefore, we are anticipating a controlled 2-0 winning score for St. Pauli at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 16:05 26/04/2024