📏 Form Guide

St. Pauli

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St. Pauli will be wanting a better result here after the 1-0 Bundesliga 2 defeat in their last game at the hands of Hamburg.

In that match, St. Pauli had 54% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Hamburg had 12 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Robert Glatzel (85') scored for Hamburg.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games where St. Pauli have shown defensive steel. In fact, St. Pauli have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 9 goals during that time.

Coming into this meeting, St. Pauli haven't lost in the league to Osnabruck in their previous 2 games.

Osnabruck

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After a loss in their previous game against Schalke in Bundesliga 2 competition, Osnabruck will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Osnabruck had 56% possession and 13 shots on goal with 4 on target. Schalke 04 had 23 attempts at goal with 10 on target. Keke Topp (2', 75'), Kenan Karaman (5') and Assan Ouédraogo (65') scored for Schalke.

The attacking players from Osnabruck have had real problems scoring goals over their last six encounters, recording the poor return of only 4. In those fixtures, Osnabrück have also seen the collective goal aggregate against them equal 12. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, however.

Coming into this fixture, Osnabruck are without an away win for the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 30/01/2009 tells us that St. Pauli have won 2 of them & Osnabruck 1, with the tally of drawn results being 3.

A sum of 16 goals were scored between them in this period, with 9 from St. Pauli and 7 belonging to Osnabrück. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The last league game between these clubs was Bundesliga 2 match day 16 on 09/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Osnabruck 1-1 St. Pauli.

In that match, Osnabruck had 46% possession and 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Charalambos Makridis (82').

At the other end, St. Pauli got 21 shots on goal with 5 on target. Jackson Irvine (6') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Patrick Schwengers.

📰 Team News: St. Pauli

Eric Smith (muscular problems), Philipp Treu (Broken fibula), Scott Banks (Cruciate ligament tear) and Simon Zoller (Back problems) are not available for St. Pauli gaffer Fabian Hürzeler. Manolis Saliakas is ineligible for this match because of suspension.

It looks as if St. Pauli may well kick off with a 3-4-3 formation in the match, handing starts to Nikola Vasilj, David Nemeth, Hauke Wahl, Karol Mets, Connor Metcalfe, Jackson Irvine, Aljoscha Kemlein, Lars Ritzka, Oladapo Afolayan, Johannes Eggestein and Marcel Hartel.

🗞️ Team News: Osnabruck

Owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from, the Osnabruck boss Uwe Koschinat doesn’t have any fitness worries at all coming into this match.

We reckon that Osnabruck seem most likely to make use of a 4-3-3 formation, going with Philipp Kühn, Bashkim Ajdini, Maxwell Gyamfi, Timo Beermann, Florian Kleinhansl, M. Thalhammer, Dave Gnaase, Robert Tesche, Jannes Wulff, Erik Engelhardt and Noel Niemann.

💡 Prediction

Osnabruck will need to play some great football to break down a St. Pauli lineup who appear set to dominate.

Our tip is for a 3-0 win for St. Pauli at the end of the 90 minutes.

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Lucas Pereira, 11:01 12/05/2024