📊 Form Guide

Union Berlin

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Union Berlin will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 Bundesliga victory over Freiburg.

In that match, Union Berlin had 28% possession and 10 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Union Berlin, goals were scored by Rani Khedira (30') and Andrej Ilić (48'). On the other side, Freiburg had 9 shots at goal with 3 on target. Lucas Höler (29') scored for Freiburg.

It has been a rare occasion in recent times that Union Berlin have shown defensive steel. The reality is that Union Berlin have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 12 goals in the process. That aside, it remains to be seen whether that trend might be replicated here in this game.

Heading into this fixture, Union Berlin are without a home win in the past 4 matches in the league. That's never good.

VfL Wolfsburg

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Following on from suffering a loss in their previous game against Heidenheim in Bundesliga competition, VfL Wolfsburg will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, VfL Wolfsburg managed 61% possession and 11 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Heidenheim had 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Marvin Pieringer (16') scored for Heidenheim.

The forward players for VfL Wolfsburg have had real problems scoring goals over their last 6 encounters, netting the unsatisfactory return of just 4. In those fixtures, Wolfsburg have also seen the collective goal aggregate of their opponents equal 6.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 18/09/2022 shows that Union Berlin have won 3 of these & VfL Wolfsburg 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

A combined sum of 12 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them from Union and 5 netted by Wolfsburg. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league encounter between the two was Bundesliga match day 11 on 23/11/2024 when the final score was VfL Wolfsburg 1-0 Union Berlin.

On that occasion, VfL Wolfsburg managed 55% possession and 10 shots at goal with 5 on target. The scorer was Ridle Baku (71').

At the other end, Union Berlin got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Tobias Stieler.

🗞️ Team News: Union Berlin

Oluwaseun Ogbemudia (Foot injury), Robert Skov (Foot injury), Aljoscha Kemlein (Foot surgery) and Woo-yeong Jeong (Ankle injury) will not be taking part for Union Berlin manager Steffen Baumgart.

It seems likely that Union will possibly go for a 4-4-2 formation for this game, utilising Frederik Roennow, Danilho Doekhi, Leopold Querfeld, Diogo Leite, Christopher Trimmel, Rani Khedira, Andras Schafer, Josip Juranovic, Janik Haberer, Benedict Hollerbach and Andrej Ilic.

🗞️ Team News: VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg manager Ralph Hasenhüttl has to choose a team with limited availability. Mathys Angély (Torn muscle fiber), Konstantinos Koulierakis (Hamstring injury), Bartosz Bialek (Knee injury), Rogério (Fitness), Mads Roerslev (Heel problems), Lovro Majer (Torn muscle fiber), Mattias Svanberg (Knee problems), Sebastiaan Bornauw (Foot injury) and Denis Vavro (Muscle injury) will miss out on this game.

We are inclined to think that Wolfsburg seem likely to elect for a 4-3-3 formation, going with Kamil Grabara, Joakim Maehle, Kilian Fischer, David Odogu, Yannick Gerhardt, Bence Dardai, Maximilian Arnold, Patrick Wimmer, Andreas Skov Olsen, Jonas Wind and Mohamed Amoura.

🔮 Prediction

Our thinking is that VfL Wolfsburg will have to play well to register a score against this Union Berlin side who we think might well score & stay on top.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a very even match with a 1-0 winning margin for Union Berlin at the end of the 90 minutes.

Expecting it to be tight.

Victor Martins, 15:05 06/04/2025