📊 Form Guide

Hansa Rostock

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Hansa Rostock will be wanting a better result here after a 1-0 Bundesliga 2 losing effort in their last game against St. Pauli.

In that match, Hansa Rostock had 36% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 5 on target. St. Pauli had 9 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Jackson Irvine (52') scored for St. Pauli.

A recurring feature of recent Hansa Rostock games is the high number of scores with a nil in them.

Taking their prior six clashes leading up to this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on BTTS would've lost. We will have to see if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

Coming into this fixture, Hansa Rostock haven't won against Karlsruhe in their previous 6 league matches.

Karlsruhe

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Karlsruhe head into the clash following a 0-1 Bundesliga 2 win with the defeat of Nuremberg in their most recent game.

In that game, Karlsruhe had 56% possession and 19 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Karlsruhe was Igor Matanović (37'). On the other side, Nurnberg had 8 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

A sequence of outstanding performances by the Karlsruhe defensive players has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their previous 6 outings overall. In that time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 14.

Looking at their past form shows that Karlsruhe:

• remain undefeated by Hansa Rostock when having played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• are undefeated in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head meetings dating back to 23/03/2019 shows us that Hansa Rostock have won 0 of these & Karlsruhe 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 3.

An aggregate of 18 goals were produced between them in these games, with 6 from Hansa and 12 created by Karlsruhe. The average goals per game has been 3.

The previous league clash between these sides was Bundesliga 2 match day 15 on 03/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Karlsruhe 2-2 Hansa Rostock.

In that match, Karlsruhe managed 64% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 on target. The scorers were Igor Matanović (44') and Budu Zivzivadze (81').

Hansa Rostock had 18 shots on goal with 7 on target. Júnior Brumado (16') and Damian Roßbach (34') scored.

The match was refereed by Deniz Aytekin.

🗞️ Team News: Hansa Rostock

Lukas Scherff (Muscle injury) and Elias Höftmann (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing for Hansa Rostock gaffer Mersad Selimbegović.

In our view, Hansa will possibly kick off with a 3-4-2-1 system for this game featuring Markus Kolke, K. Stafylidis, Jonas David, Damian Rossbach, John-Patrick Strauß, Dennis Dressel, Sebastian Vasiliadis, Alexander Rossipal, Nils Fröling, Svante Ingelsson and Juan José Perea.

🗞️ Team News: Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe boss Christian Eichner has multiple availability issues to deal with. Efe Kaan Sihlaroglu (Knee surgery), Daniel O'Shaughnessy (Fitness), Robin Bormuth (Cruciate ligament tear), David Herold (Ankle injury) and Tim Rossmann (Hip injury) are not able to play.

We believe Karlsruhe could decide to play in a 4-4-2 lineup, choosing Patrick Drewes, Marco Thiede, Marcel Franke, Marcel Beifus, Philip Heise, Paul Nebel, Nicolai Rapp, Eren Öztürk, Marvin Wanitzek, Budu Zivzivadze and Igor Matanovic.

💡 Prediction

We feel that Karlsruhe will, in all probability, see a lot of the ball and convert quite a few goal-scoring opportunities.

Conversely, Hansa Rostock may well struggle to find success in front of goal, although we do think that it’s probable they’ll be being dangerous at times.

We can therefore see a pretty comfortable 1-3 margin for Karlsruhe when all’s said and done.

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

Victor Martins, 10:35 04/05/2024