📏 Form Guide

Hamburg

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Hamburg will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 0-4 Bundesliga 2 success versus Eintracht Braunschweig.

In that match, Hamburg had 61% possession and 17 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Hamburg, the goals were scored by Robert Glatzel (9', 22'), Bakery Jatta (69') and Ludovit Reis (84'). On the other side, Eintracht Braunschweig got 6 shots at goal with 2 on target.

Steffen Baumgart's Hamburg have managed to score 12 times in their past six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that have been scored against them in that same time amounts to 5.

Coming into this clash, Hamburg have not lost a league tie with St. Pauli in their last 2 games.

St. Pauli

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St. Pauli go into this meeting following a 1-0 Bundesliga 2 win to defeat Hansa Rostock in their most recent outing.

In that game, St. Pauli had 64% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for St. Pauli was Jackson Irvine (52'). On the other side, Hansa Rostock had 8 shots at goal with 5 on target.

Over the course of their previous half-dozen clashes, St. Pauli have bagged the sum of 11 goals. St. Pauli have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have seen 8 goals go into their own net. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this match, though.

Ahead of this clash, St. Pauli are winless against Hamburg when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 01/03/2021 shows us that Hamburg have won 2 of these games and St. Pauli 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 23 in all which averages out at 3.83 goals per match.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was Bundesliga 2 match day 15 on 01/12/2023 when the final score was St. Pauli 2-2 Hamburg.

In that game, St. Pauli managed 60% possession and 18 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Jackson Irvine (15').

Hamburg had 6 shots at goal with 3 on target. Daniel Heuer Fernandes (27' Own goal), Robert Glatzel (58') and Immanuel Pherai (60') scored.

The referee was Felix Zwayer.

📰 Team News: Hamburg

There’s just the lone fitness concern for the Hamburg boss Steffen Baumgart to contend with thanks to an otherwise robust squad. László Bénes (muscular problems) is sidelined.

It seems likely that Hamburg will possibly employ a 4-2-1-3 system for the game, utilising Matheo Raab, Ludovit Reis, Dennis Hadzikadunic, Sebastian Schonlau, Miro Muheim, Jonas Meffert, Lukasz Poreba, Immanuel Pherai, Bakery Jatta, Robert Glatzel and R. Königsdörffer.

ℹ️ Team News: St. Pauli

There’s a good chance that St. Pauli appear most likely to make use of a 3-4-3 formation by sending out Nikola Vasilj, Hauke Wahl, Eric Smith, Karol Mets, Manolis Saliakas, Jackson Irvine, Aljoscha Kemlein, Connor Metcalfe, Oladapo Afolayan, Johannes Eggestein and Marcel Hartel.

✨ Prediction

We feel that St. Pauli and Hamburg are both more than capable of scoring here.

A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely - as are goals. That’s why our selection here is for a hard-fought 2-2 score draw at the end of this one.

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

Lucas Pereira, 16:02 03/05/2024