Hansa Rostock vs Fortuna Dusseldorf Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Hansa Rostock

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Hansa Rostock enter this game following on from a 1-1 Bundesliga 2 stalemate vs Hannover.

In that game, Hansa Rostock managed 44% possession and 21 shots at goal with 7 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Hansa Rostock was Dennis Dressel (44'). For their opponents, Hannover 96 got 10 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Max Besuschkow (61') scored for Hannover.

Fewer than three goals per match were recorded in 6 of the last 6 fixtures where Hansa Rostock have taken part. With regard to the goal attribution from that period, their opponents scored an aggregate of 7 while Hansa Rostock totted up 2. That aside, we will just have to wait and see if that trend shall be replicated here in this game.

Looking at their past form shows that Hansa Rostock:

• have not beaten Fortuna Dusseldorf in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 7 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.

Fortuna Dusseldorf

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In their last game, Fortuna Dusseldorf drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga 2 match with Heidenheim.

In that match, Fortuna Dusseldorf managed 49% possession and 12 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Fortuna Dusseldorf was Emmanuel Iyoha (27'). Heidenheim got 9 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Tim Kleindienst (20') was the scorer for Heidenheim.

In their previous 6 outings, Fortuna Dusseldorf have helped themselves to a tally of 9 goals. Fortuna Dusseldorf have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they’ve had 5 goals go into their own net.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 21/10/2011 tells us that Hansa Rostock have won 2 of these games & Fortuna Dusseldorf 4, with the tally of draws standing at 0.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 5 for Hansa and 13 coming from Fortuna. The average goals per game has been 3.

The last league match featuring these sides was Bundesliga 2 match day 8 on 10/09/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Fortuna Dusseldorf 3-1 Hansa Rostock.

In that match, Fortuna Dusseldorf managed 48% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. The goalscorers were Dawid Kownacki (10'), Marcel Sobottka (27') and Emmanuel Iyoha (77').

At the other end, Hansa Rostock had 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Lukas Fröde (61') scored.

The referee was Sascha Stegemann.

🗞️ Team News: Hansa Rostock

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Hansa Rostock gaffer Patrick Glöckner to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Rick van Drongelen (Torn Ligament) is out of contention.

It seems likely that Hansa will probably opt for a 4-2-3-1 system for the game with Markus Kolke, Nico Neidhart, Ryan Malone, Damian Rossbach, Anderson Lucoqui, Dennis Dressel, Simon Rhein, Kai Proger, Svante Ingelsson, Kevin Schumacher and John Verhoek.

📰 Team News: Fortuna Dusseldorf

With a completely healthy squad available to select from, the Fortuna Dusseldorf boss Daniel Thioune has no fitness concerns whatsoever coming into this clash.

We’re of the thinking that Fortuna seem most likely to make use of a 4-1-3-2 lineup, starting the game with Florian Kastenmeier, Matthias Zimmermann, Andre Hoffmann, Christoph Klarer, Michal Karbownik, Jorrit Hendrix, Felix Klaus, Ao Tanaka, Shinta Appelkamp, Dawid Kownacki and Emmanuel Iyoha.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Hansa Rostock may well find it hard to register a score against this Fortuna Dusseldorf outfit who will likely gain the upper hand.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good battle with a 0-1 winning score for Fortuna Dusseldorf at the end of this one.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 02:35 15/03/2023