RW Essen vs Saarbrucken Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 26)

📏 Form Guide

RW Essen

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RW Essen, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 0-2 3rd Liga success over SV Sandhausen.

For RW Essen, the goals were scored by Ramien Safi (17') and Julian Eitschberger (34').

Uwe Koschinat's RW Essen have hit the target 10 times over their preceding half-dozen outings. The corresponding number of goals that they have conceded in those fixtures amounts to 7.

Looking at their past form shows that RW Essen:

• haven't beaten Saarbrucken in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 8 home league matches. A very good run at home.

Saarbrucken

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Dynamo Dresden in 3rd Liga competition, Saarbrucken and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

For Saarbrucken, the scorers were Bjarne Thoelke (11' Own goal) and Sven Sonnenberg (21'). Christoph Daferner (2'), Niklas Hauptmann (56') and Dominik Kother (67') scored for Dynamo Dresden.

For 5 of the past six clashes featuring Saarbrucken, a notably low volume of goals have been struck between them and opposing teams. The overall average goals scored per game within that period works out to just 2.17, with the number of goals averaged by Saarbrücken standing at 0.83. That kind of pattern might not be sustained into this next game, though.

Pre-game facts show that Saarbrucken:

• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels going back to 08/04/2005, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with RW Essen winning 2 of those games, Saarbrucken 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

An aggregate of 10 goals were scored between them in this period, with 4 from Essen and 6 for Saarbrücken. The average goals per game has been 1.67.

The last league contest between these sides was 3rd Liga match day 16 on 01/12/2024 when it finished Saarbrucken 1-0 RW Essen.

The referee was Michael Bacher.

💭 Prediction

We’re thinking that Saarbrucken and RW Essen could well cancel each other out, with goals at a real premium.

At this stage, it appears to have the makings of a possible draw. That’s why our selection here is for a close game with a 0-0 draw after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 11:03 22/04/2025