📏 Form Guide

Hertha Berlin

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Hertha Berlin will be looking for an improved result here following a 3-2 Bundesliga 2 losing effort in their last game against Karlsruhe.

In that game, Hertha Berlin had 54% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Hertha Berlin was Haris Tabaković (23', 87'). Karlsruher got 9 shots at goal with 5 on target. Marco Thiede (16'), Igor Matanović (45') and Marvin Wanitzek (77') scored for Karlsruhe.

Matches with Hertha Berlin have proved to be engaging ones lately with plenty of scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past 6 games alone, a total of 29 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 4.83 goals per game) with 17 of these being chalked up by Hertha Berlin. That sort of trend won’t necessarily follow through into this game, of course.

Their prior results show that Hertha Berlin:

• have not lost a league tie with Hannover in their previous 3 matches.
• have not beaten Hannover in their previous 2 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 5 home league matches.

Hannover

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against St. Pauli in Bundesliga 2 competition, Hannover and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Hannover managed 44% possession and 16 shots at goal with 8 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Hannover was Lars Gindorf (45'). For their opponents, St. Pauli got 7 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Oladapo Afolayan (41') and Johannes Eggestein (65') scored for St. Pauli.

Stefan Leitl's Hannover have slotted home 7 times throughout their most recent six matches. The number of goals that have been scored against them during those same matches adds up to 5.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Hannover:

• have not emerged victorious against Hertha Berlin when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A look at their past head-to-head meetings dating back to 08/04/2016 shows us that Hertha Berlin have won 2 of these games and Hannover 1, with the number of draws being 3.

An aggregate of 18 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 10 of them from Hertha and 8 netted by Hannover. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The previous league clash between these clubs was Bundesliga 2 match day 14 on 24/11/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Hannover 2-2 Hertha Berlin.

That day, Hannover managed 61% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. The goals were scored by Håvard Nielsen (67') and Andreas Voglsammer (80').

Hertha Berlin got 11 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Florian Niederlechner (29') and Pascal Klemens (45') scored.

The match was refereed by Timo Gerach.

📰 Team News: Hertha Berlin

The Hertha Berlin manager Pál Dárdai will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this game thanks to a completely injury-free group available to select from.

It looks as if Hertha will probably make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation for this one with Tjark Ernst, Jonjoe Kenny, Marc-Oliver Kempf, Toni Leistner, Deyovaisio Zeefuik, Andreas Bouchalakis, Pascal Klemens, Palko Dardai, Ibrahim Maza, Fabian Reese and Haris Tabakovic.

📋 Team News: Hannover

Thanks to a largely healthy squad, there is only the sole fitness problem for the Hannover boss Stefan Leitl to be concerned with. Christopher Scott (Back problems) won’t be playing here.

From our viewpoint, Hannover will likely utilise a 3-4-1-2 system by sending out Ron-Robert Zieler, Phil Neumann, Marcel Halstenberg, Bright Arrey-Mbi, Sei Muroya, Jannik Dehm, Enzo Leopold, Fabian Kunze, Louis Schaub, Lars Gindorf and Nicolo Tresoldi.

🧠 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Hannover and Hertha Berlin should both be able to find the back of the net at least once here although it’s difficult at this stage to select a clear winner.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square with both teams likely to score. We therefore think that it’s going to be a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 2-2 score draw at the end of this one.

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Andre Moura, 16:05 26/04/2024