📊 Form Guide

Schalke

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Schalke will be looking for an improved result here following the 5-2 Bundesliga 2 loss in their previous game against Hertha Berlin.

In that game, Schalke had 54% possession and 9 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Schalke was Simon Terodde (5', 26'). On the other side, Hertha BSC got 19 shots on goal with 9 on target. Haris Tabaković (2', 13'), Marten Winkler (39', 56') and Florian Niederlechner (75') scored for Hertha Berlin.

It’s been seldom in recent games that Schalke have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Schalke have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 13 goals on the way.

Taking a look at their past results, Schalke:

• have not registered a win against Karlsruhe in their previous 3 matches in the league.
• are unbeaten in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Karlsruhe

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Karlsruhe will go into this match following on from a 7-0 Bundesliga 2 win to defeat Magdeburg in their last fixture.

In that match, Karlsruhe had 39% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Karlsruhe, goals were scored by Marcel Franke (7'), Budu Zivzivadze (13', 25'), Paul Nebel (40'), Marcel Beifus (50'), Igor Matanović (51') and Marvin Wanitzek (91'). For their opponents, Magdeburg had 6 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

A tendency of at least one team not managing to score in games featuring Karlsruhe has become evident recently. A glance at their last six games reveals that it has happened 5 times. In those clashes, opposing sides have hit a goal tally of 5 and Karlsruhe have scored 17. That trend isn’t assured to be continued into this next game, however.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head clashes going back to 28/10/2008 shows that Schalke have won 3 of them & Karlsruhe 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

A sum of 15 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from Schalke and 6 netted by Karlsruhe. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.5.

The last league game featuring these sides was Bundesliga 2 match day 10 on 22/10/2023 when the final score was Karlsruhe 3-0 Schalke.

In that match, Karlsruhe had 53% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The scorers were Lars Stindl (22') and Igor Matanović (37').

Schalke got 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Henning Matriciani (74' Own goal) was the scorer.

The referee was Florian Heft.

📋 Team News: Schalke

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just a single fitness concern for the Schalke manager Karel Geraerts to be concerned with from a near full-strength group. Leo Greiml (Cruciate ligament tear) is sidelined. Timo Baumgartl will not be able to play in this game through being suspended.

📰 Team News: Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe boss Christian Eichner has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Daniel O'Shaughnessy (Hip injury), Eren Öztürk (Tear of the lateral meniscus), Robin Bormuth (Cruciate ligament tear), Lars Stindl (Calf problems), Efe Kaan Sihlaroglu (Knee surgery) and Tim Rossmann (Hip injury) can’t be considered.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Karlsruhe and Schalke should end up playing out a closely-fought contest here.

There shouldn’t be much in it, and a high-scoring draw looks to be quite a realistic result. Our tip is therefore for a very competitive encounter with a 2-2 draw when the full-time whistle blows.

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Victor Martins, 11:04 31/03/2024