St. Pauli vs Hansa Rostock Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

St. Pauli

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St. Pauli fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 1-2 Bundesliga 2 triumph versus Hannover.

In that match, St. Pauli had 56% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For St. Pauli, goals were scored by Oladapo Afolayan (41') and Johannes Eggestein (65'). Hannover 96 had 16 shots at goal with 8 of them on target. Lars Gindorf (45') was the scorer for Hannover.

Fixtures featuring St. Pauli have often been lively affairs of late with high scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum total of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 12 of these being chalked up by St. Pauli.

Coming into this contest, St. Pauli are unbeaten in the league by Hansa Rostock in their last 2 matches.

Hansa Rostock

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Magdeburg in Bundesliga 2 action, Hansa Rostock and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Hansa Rostock had 53% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Magdeburg got 10 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Luca Schuler (18') and Daniel Heber (40') scored for Magdeburg.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring Hansa Rostock has been noticeable in recent matches. Looking at their last six meetings reveals that this has happened 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal tally of 9 and Hansa Rostock have scored 5. That aside, we will just have to wait and see if that trend will persist in this upcoming game or not.

Taking a look at their past results, Hansa Rostock:

• have not won against St. Pauli in games played away from home for the previous 5 matches in the league. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their prior head to head clashes going back to 22/04/2012 shows that St. Pauli have won 4 of these games & Hansa Rostock 2, with the number of drawn games being 0.

A combined sum of 16 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 11 for St. Pauli and 5 belonging to Hansa. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league fixture between the two was Bundesliga 2 match day 14 on 25/11/2023 when it ended Hansa Rostock 2-3 St. Pauli.

In that match, Hansa Rostock managed 38% possession and 14 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Júnior Brumado (9', 80').

For their opponents, St. Pauli got 18 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Manolis Saliakas (15'), Marcel Hartel (18') and Oladapo Afolayan (23') scored.

The match was refereed by Robin Braun.

📋 Team News: St. Pauli

Philipp Treu (Broken fibula), Carlo Boukhalfa (Hip problems), Simon Zoller (Hamstring injury), Sören Ahlers (unknown injury), Eric Smith (muscular problems) and Scott Banks (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be able to play for St. Pauli manager Fabian Hürzeler.

We think that St. Pauli should kick off with a 3-4-3 formation with Nikola Vasilj, Adam Dzwigala, Hauke Wahl, Karol Mets, Manolis Saliakas, Jackson Irvine, Marcel Hartel, Lars Ritzka, Connor Metcalfe, Johannes Eggestein and Elias Saad.

ℹ️ Team News: Hansa Rostock

Hansa Rostock boss Mersad Selimbegović has some current player fitness concerns. Lukas Scherff (Muscle injury) and Elias Höftmann (Cruciate ligament tear) miss out here. Damian Roßbach cannot play in this game through suspension.

We are inclined to think that Hansa will likely play in a 3-4-2-1 formation, settling for Markus Kolke, Jonas David, Alexander Rossipal, K. Stafylidis, Jasper van der Werff, Dennis Dressel, Sebastian Vasiliadis, Sarpreet Singh, Kai Proger, Svante Ingelsson and Júnior Brumado.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that St. Pauli have it within them to get a couple of goals in this one when they play Hansa Rostock, who won’t find it easy to score themselves.

Therefore, we are anticipating a controlled 2-0 winning score for St. Pauli at the end of the match.

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

Andre Moura, 05:09 25/04/2024