Hannover vs Holstein Kiel Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Hannover

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Hannover will play in this game following a 3-3 Bundesliga 2 draw vs Fortuna Dusseldorf.

In that game, Hannover had 43% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 7 on target. For Hannover, the goals were scored by Cedric Teuchert (12'), Louis Schaub (21') and Maximilian Beier (89'). Fortuna Düsseldorf got 18 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Felix Klaus (30', 52') and Daniel Ginczek (77') scored for Fortuna Dusseldorf.

It’s not been often in recent games that Hannover have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Hannover have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 10 goals along the way.

Their prior results show that Hannover:

• haven't lost in the league to Holstein Kiel in their previous 3 games.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Holstein Kiel

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against St. Pauli in Bundesliga 2 action, Holstein Kiel will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Holstein Kiel had 55% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Holstein Kiel, the scorers were Steven Skrzybski (28'), Hauke Wahl (53' Own goal), Marco Komenda (78') and Fabian Reese (93'). On the other side, St. Pauli had 12 shots on goal with 4 on target. Oladapo Afolayan (39'), Lukas Daschner (61') and Leart Paqarada (74') scored for St. Pauli.

The stats don’t lie, and Holstein Kiel have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 15 goals overall. At the back, Holstein Kiel can certainly do much better. Previous results aside, we must now wait to see if the trend shall be replicated in this match or not.

Heading into this fixture, Holstein Kiel have not won away from home in their last 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 02/03/2020 tells us that Hannover have won 3 of them and Holstein Kiel 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 15 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 9 of them from Hannover and 6 being from Holstein Kiel. That is an average goals per game value of 2.5.

The previous league fixture featuring these clubs was Bundesliga 2 match day 17 on 11/11/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Holstein Kiel 1-1 Hannover.

That day, Holstein Kiel had 53% possession and 15 shots on goal with 3 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Fin Bartels (9').

On the other side, Hannover got 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Cedric Teuchert (16') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Arne Aarnink.

🗞️ Team News: Hannover

The Hannover boss Stefan Leitl has a full complement, with no fitness concerns whatsoever before this game with a fully healthy squad available to select from.

In all likelihood, Hannover should make use of the 3-4-1-2 system this time, utilising Ron-Robert Zieler, Phil Neumann, Yannik Lührs, Bright Arrey-Mbi, Sei Muroya, Max Besuschkow, Fabian Kunze, Derrick Köhn, Louis Schaub, Håvard Nielsen and Cedric Teuchert.

📰 Team News: Holstein Kiel

With a fully healthy squad available for selection, the Holstein Kiel manager Marcel Rapp doesn’t have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this match. Hauke Wahl will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

From our viewpoint, Holstein Kiel might utilise a 4-1-2-1-2 lineup by sending out Timon Weiner, Timo Becker, Marco Komenda, Stefan Thesker, Mikkel Kirkeskov, Patrick Erras, Philipp Sander, Lewis Holtby, Steven Skrzybski, Fin Bartels and Fabian Reese.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, Holstein Kiel have it in them to breach the defence of this Hannover outfit, however it probably shouldn’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see a 2-1 win for Hannover at full-time. Expecting it to be very competitive.

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

Renata Leite, 00:14 24/05/2023