Hertha Berlin vs Hoffenheim Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Hertha Berlin

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Hertha Berlin enter this game after a 0-0 Bundesliga 1 draw against Cologne.

In that game, Hertha Berlin managed 51% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, 1. FC Köln got 8 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target.

In their past 6 games, Bruno Labbadia's Hertha Berlin have managed to score a total of 5 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 0.83.

Coming into this fixture, Hertha Berlin are unbeaten in their last 3 league matches at home.

Hoffenheim

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In their last fixture, Hoffenheim drew 0-0 in the Bundesliga 1 tie with Arminia Bielefeld.

In that match, Hoffenheim had 52% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. At the other end, Arminia Bielefeld had 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

Looking at their form, and Hoffenheim have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals overall. Defensively, Hoffenheim could really do with shoring things up. Previous results aside, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern shall be replicated here in this match.

Ahead of this meeting, Hoffenheim have not lost to Hertha Berlin when having played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. A very good record, indeed.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes going back to 17/09/2017 shows us that Hertha Berlin have won 1 of them & Hoffenheim 2, with the number of draws standing at 3.

A total of 20 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 10 for Hertha and 10 for Hoffenheim. That is an average goals per game value of 3.33.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Bundesliga 1 match day 26 on 16/05/2020 and the score finished Hoffenheim 0-3 Hertha Berlin.

In that game, Hoffenheim had 51% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The scorer was Kevin Akpoguma (58' Own goal).

On the other side, Hertha Berlin got 13 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Ibišević (60') and Matheus Cunha (74') scored.

The match was refereed by Christian Dingert.

ℹ️ Team News: Hertha Berlin

Márton Dárdai (Muscular problems), Eduard Löwen (Muscular problems), Dedryck Boyata (Foot Injury), Jessic Ngankam (Muscle Injury), Javairô Dilrosun (Ligament Injury) and Marvin Plattenhardt (Adductor problems) are not available for Hertha BSC manager Bruno Labbadia.

🗞️ Team News: Hoffenheim

Hoffenheim manager Sebastian Hoeneß has multiple availability issues to deal with. Ermin Bicakcic (Cruciate Ligament Rupture), Dennis Geiger (Muscular problems), Kevin Akpoguma (Hamstring Injury), Pavel Kaderabek (Fitness), Benjamin Hübner (Tear in a joint capsule), Robert Skov (Knock), Florian Grillitsch (Abdominal Strain), Konstantinos Stafylidis (Shoulder Injury) and Kevin Vogt (Hand Injury) will miss out on this game.

✨ Prediction

Hoffenheim certainly have the ability to put a goal past this Hertha Berlin team, however that probably shouldn’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We think that it’s going to be a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Hertha Berlin at the end of this one. Looking forward to this.

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Peter Guest, 00:08 15/01/2021