📏 Form Guide

Fortuna Dusseldorf

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Fortuna Dusseldorf go into this fixture after a 2-2 Bundesliga 2 tied result against Eintracht Braunschweig.

In that game, Fortuna Dusseldorf managed 58% possession and 10 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Fortuna Dusseldorf, goals were scored by Nicolas Gavory (47') and Matthias Zimmermann (72'). Eintracht Braunschweig had 13 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Paul Jaeckel (22') and Rayan Philippe (52') scored for Eintracht Braunschweig.

Fixtures featuring Fortuna Dusseldorf have proved to be exciting ones of late with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen clashes alone, the sum total of 20 goals have been scored for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 10 of those being chalked up by Fortuna Dusseldorf. We will have to find out if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Pre-game facts show that Fortuna Dusseldorf:

• haven't lost in the league to Schalke in their previous 4 games.
• haven't beaten Schalke in their previous 2 league games.
• are undefeated in their last 3 league matches at home.

Schalke

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against SC Paderborn 07 in Bundesliga 2 action, Schalke and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Schalke had 49% possession and 12 shots at goal with 4 on target. For their opponents, Paderborn 07 had 18 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Raphael Obermair (40') and Marvin Mehlem (48') scored for SC Paderborn 07.

The stats don’t lie, and Schalke have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 12 goals overall. In defence, Schalke certainly have room for improvement.

Their prior results show that Schalke:

• are winless against Fortuna Dusseldorf in away games against them for the last 3 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 27/05/2020 shows that Fortuna Dusseldorf have won 3 of these & Schalke 1, with the number of drawn results being 2.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 in all which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Bundesliga 2 match day 16 on 14/12/2024 which ended up with the score at Schalke 1-1 Fortuna Dusseldorf.

That day, Schalke had 59% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 10 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Moussa Sylla (72').

Fortuna Dusseldorf got 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Dawid Kownacki (62') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Florian Heft.

ℹ️ Team News: Fortuna Dusseldorf

It’s our opinion that Fortuna could line up in a 4-1-4-1 system, beginning the first half with Florian Kastenmeier, Matthias Zimmermann, Tim Oberdorf, Jamil Siebert, Nicolas Gavory, Giovanni Haag, Shinta Appelkamp, Í. B. Jóhannesson, Danny Schmidt, Myron van Brederode and Dawid Kownacki.

🗞️ Team News: Schalke

Schalke manager Kees van Wonderen has to choose a team with limited availability. Ralf Fährmann (Torn lateral knee ligament), Aris Bayindir (Hamstring injury), Loris Karius (Calf injury) and Zaid Amoussou-Tchibara (Cruciate ligament tear) are those who can’t be considered.

We believe Schalke seem most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Justin Heekeren, Taylan Bulut, Ron Schallenberg, Marcin Kaminski, Anton Donkor, Max Grüger, Paul Seguin, C. Antwi-Adjej, Kenan Karaman, Tobias Mohr and Moussa Sylla.

🧠 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Schalke will likely be able to find the net against this Fortuna Dusseldorf lineup, but it probably won’t quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We can see a 2-1 advantage for Fortuna Dusseldorf after 90 minutes. It’s a very tough call.

Peter Guest, 10:28 10/05/2025