📊 Form Guide

Kaiserslautern

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Kaiserslautern head into this match following on from a 1-1 Bundesliga 2 drawn result against Hannover.

In that game, Kaiserslautern had 45% possession and 8 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Kaiserslautern was Kenny Prince Redondo (53'). Hannover 96 got 10 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Andreas Voglsammer (68') scored for Hannover.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Kaiserslautern haven’t conceded. In fact, Kaiserslautern have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 10 goals on the way.

Going into this encounter, Kaiserslautern have left without a victory over Fortuna Dusseldorf in their previous 2 league games.

Fortuna Dusseldorf

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Fortuna Dusseldorf head into the match following on from a 0-4 Bundesliga 2 win with the defeat of Osnabruck in their last match.

In that match, Fortuna Dusseldorf managed 38% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. For Fortuna Dusseldorf, the goalscorers were Christos Tzolis (35'), Takashi Uchino (60'), Marlon Mustapha (72') and Ao Tanaka (88'). At the other end, Osnabruck got 11 shots on goal with 0 on target.

Over the course of their last 6 clashes, Fortuna Dusseldorf have bagged a tally of 13 goals. Fortuna Dusseldorf have also scored in every single one of those games. During that period, they’ve seen 5 goals scored by their opponents. Such a trend might not follow through into this match, however.

Leading up to this clash, Fortuna Dusseldorf:

• haven't been beaten by Kaiserslautern in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 19/08/2017 tells us that Kaiserslautern have won 1 of these games & Fortuna Dusseldorf 5, with the tally of draws being 0.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 26 in all which averages out at 4.33 goals per meeting.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was Bundesliga 2 match day 10 on 21/10/2023 and the score finished Fortuna Dusseldorf 4-3 Kaiserslautern.

On that day, Fortuna Dusseldorf managed 61% possession and 20 shots at goal with 5 on target. Goals were scored by Jamil Siebert (30' Own goal), Ao Tanaka (36', 63'), Matthias Zimmermann (50') and Felix Klaus (57').

For their opponents, Kaiserslautern got 17 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Richmond Tachie (21') and Marlon Ritter (32') scored.

The referee was Benjamin Brand.

📋 Team News: Kaiserslautern

Ragnar Ache (Muscle injury), Hendrick Zuck (Cruciate ligament tear), Julian Krahl (Hand injury) and Philipp Klement (Muscle injury) won’t be able to feature for Kaiserslautern boss Friedhelm Funkel.

In all likelihood, Kaiserslautern will possibly go for a 4-2-3-1 formation, handing starts to Robin Himmelmann, Jean Zimmer, Jan Elvedi, Boris Tomiak, Tymoteusz Puchacz, Julian Niehues, Filip Kaloc, Tobias Raschl, Marlon Ritter, Kenny Prince Redondo and Daniel Hanslik.

ℹ️ Team News: Fortuna Dusseldorf

Due to a fully healthy group to choose from, the Fortuna Dusseldorf manager Daniel Thioune doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash.

There’s a good chance that Fortuna could decide to begin the game with a 4-1-4-1 lineup, starting the game with Florian Kastenmeier, Matthias Zimmermann, Jamil Siebert, Tim Oberdorf, Emmanuel Iyoha, Yannik Engelhardt, Felix Klaus, Ao Tanaka, Shinta Appelkamp, Christos Tzolis and Marlon Mustapha.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Kaiserslautern will manage to put a goal past this Fortuna Dusseldorf side, but a single goal might not quite be enough to prevent defeat.

We therefore reckon that it will be a narrow 1-2 advantage for Fortuna Dusseldorf at the end of the 90 minutes. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

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

Andre Moura, 11:34 30/03/2024