Fortuna Dusseldorf vs Karlsruhe Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Fortuna Dusseldorf

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Fortuna Dusseldorf will be looking for a repeat result of a 1-2 Bundesliga 2 triumph against Darmstadt.

In that game, Fortuna Dusseldorf had 46% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Fortuna Dusseldorf, the scorers were Luka Krajnc (20') and Dawid Kownacki (62'). SV Darmstadt 98 had 18 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Serdar Dursun (37') scored for Darmstadt.

At least three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Fortuna Dusseldorf have taken part. Their opponents scored 10 of them in this period whereas Fortuna managed a tally of 10. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be continued here, though.

Coming into this fixture, Fortuna Dusseldorf haven't lost in the league to Karlsruhe in their previous 3 matches.

Karlsruhe

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Osnabruck in Bundesliga 2 action, Karlsruhe and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Karlsruhe had 62% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 4 on target. VfL Osnabrück got 7 shots on goal with 2 on target. Christian Santos (48') was the scorer for Osnabruck.

In 5 of the past six games featuring Karlsruhe, a notably low volume of goals have been scored between them and opposing sides. The overall average number of goals per game within that spell comes to a paltry 1.17, with the average goals for Karlsruhe standing at 0.5.

Their past results show that Karlsruhe:

• remain undefeated by Fortuna Dusseldorf in games played away from home for the previous 4 league matches. An impressive run.
• are undefeated in their previous 6 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 08/02/2015 tells us that Fortuna Dusseldorf have won 2 of these games & Karlsruhe 1, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A total of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 8 for Fortuna and 5 netted by Karlsruhe. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Bundesliga 2 match day 11 on 13/12/2020 and the score finished Karlsruhe 1-2 Fortuna Dusseldorf.

The referee was Tobias Reichel.

ℹ️ Team News: Fortuna Dusseldorf

Fortuna Dusseldorf manager Uwe Rösler will be thankful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game thanks to a fully healthy squad to pick from.

📰 Team News: Karlsruhe

In an otherwise available group of players, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Karlsruhe manager Christian Eichner to be concerned about. Dirk Carlson (Fatigue fracture) won’t be playing here.

🔮 Prediction

When taking everything into account, Karlsruhe might have a difficult job to see themselves scoring against this Fortuna Dusseldorf outfit who we reckon should score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re going for a very competitive game with a 1-0 winning score for Fortuna Dusseldorf at full-time.

Should be a close one.

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

Renata Leite, 23:22 05/04/2021