📏 Form Guide

Lübeck

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Lübeck prepare for this match after a 0-0 3rd Liga drawn result against Arminia Bielefeld.

Lübeck have been quite ineffective in attack in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 2 vs opponents over their previous 6 outings. In those meetings, Lübeck have also seen the number of goals that have gone against them come to 10. That aside, time will tell whether the trend will continue on in this upcoming game or not.

Coming into this meeting, Lübeck are without a win at home for the past 2 league games.

Duisburg

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Duisburg head into the encounter following a 3-1 3rd Liga win with the eclipse of SV Sandhausen in their previous game.

For Duisburg, goals were scored by Alexander Esswein (29'), Benjamin Girth (32') and Joshua Bitter (82'). Tim Maciejewski (73') scored for SV Sandhausen.

Looking at their form, and Duisburg have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 10 goals in all. At the back, Duisburg have some weaknesses to address.

Coming into this fixture, Duisburg are without an away win for the past 5 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A quick look at their past head to head results going back to 03/08/2003 reveals that these encounters have been pretty painful for Lübeck. They have not been able to get any victories whatsoever while Duisburg have managed to find a way, running out winners in 67 per cent of those matches.

A total of 14 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 4 for Lübeck and 10 for Duisburg. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The previous league encounter between these sides was 3rd Liga match day 17 on 02/12/2023 when it finished Duisburg 1-0 Lübeck.

The referee was Felix Weller.

ℹ️ Team News: Lübeck

Janek Sternberg (muscular problems), Mats Facklam (muscular problems), Pascal Breier (Ill), Niklas Kastenhofer (Adductor pain), Jan-Marc Schneider (Ill), Leon Sommer (Inner ligament injury), Hanno Behrens (Ill), Morten Rüdiger (Knee injury), Yannic Stein (Shoulder injury), Tommy Grupe (Broken nose bone) and Kimmo Hovi (Foot injury) won’t be playing for Lübeck boss Bastian Reinhardt. Mirko Boland is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

🗞️ Team News: Duisburg

Duisburg manager Boris Schommers has some current player fitness concerns. Chinedu Ekene (Knee problems), Caspar Jander (Knee injury), Hamza Anhari (Knee problems), Sebastian Mai (Cruciate ligament tear) and Pascal Köpke (Knee problems) are not able to play. Jonas Michelbrink will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Lübeck will do well to get anything against this Duisburg lineup who we think will do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore seeing a good battle with a 0-1 winning score for Duisburg when the full-time whistle blows.

We’re expecting it to be that close.

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

Andre Moura, 16:03 03/05/2024