Season ticket holders at SchücoArena haven’t watched many wins this season, with DSC Arminia Bielefeld lying uncomfortably in the 14th place. The visiting Nürnberg will hope to protect their higher league place in this one.
- DSC Arminia Bielefeld have the fewest clean sheets (2) in 2. Bundesliga
- Nürnberg have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in 2. Bundesliga
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
DSC Arminia Bielefeld form and stats
5-0-7 (win-draw-lost) are the 2. Bundesliga numbers at home for DSC Arminia Bielefeld so far this season.
DSC Arminia Bielefeld's last game was hosting Darmstadt 98 (placed 1st) and winning 3-1. At last, a league win after four fixtures without. Klos, who usually features in attack, was the declared top player for the side in that match, collecting a rating of 8.14 (out of 10). Klos scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes.
Before that, DSC Arminia Bielefeld played out a draw 3-3 when visiting Eintracht Braunschweig.This is expected to be a close game, with DSC Arminia Bielefeld perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Bielefeld as a small favourite), we find 7 games. DSC Arminia Bielefeld has won 3 of these, drawn 1 and lost 3.
DSC Arminia Bielefeld have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at SchücoArena with 20 goals in 12 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Bielefeld defense is not exactly impregnable. 19 goals conceded from 12 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Nürnberg form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Nürnberg so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-7 (win-draw-lose). Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Nürnberg's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Nürnberg are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the match against Eintracht Braunschweig (placed 16th). Gyamerah, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.33. Gyamerah scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 6 of 8 duels.
Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Hamburger SV's place.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by Nürnberg in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Nürnberg, 3 draws and 7 defeats.
Stats flash: 10 of the latest 13 league matches involving this club have ended with only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting terms).
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Nürnberg as they have only managed to score 8 times from 12 away games in the league. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Nürnberg have conceded 23 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
This was the result when the squads played each other previously this season; Nürnberg - Bielefeld 1-0. Numbers for the prior ten meetings featuring these two teams are: three wins for DSC Arminia Bielefeld, two draws and five wins for Nürnberg. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: four games.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Hack 8 goals |   K. Duah 7 goals |  J. Serra 6 goals |
DSC Arminia Bielefeld missing players
Nürnberg missing players
| DSC Arminia Bielefeld | Nürnberg | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 5 | 12 | 24 |
| 7 | 5 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | 12 |
| 34 | 20 | 10 | Scored | S | 5 | 8 | 20 |
| 39 | 19 | 5 | Conceded | C | 7 | 23 | 35 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 83% | 88% |
| 83% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 60% | 67% | 62% |
| 58% | 67% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 50% | 42% |
| 33% | 42% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 25% | 17% |
| 21% | 25% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 25% | 17% |
| 62% | 58% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 33% | 29% |
| 8% | 8% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 25% | 38% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 58% | 46% |
| 4 | 4.4 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 4.3 | 4.6 |
| 5.6 | 5.2 | 7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 5.6 | 4.8 |
| 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.7 | 13.2 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 10.4 | 12.8 |
| 4.7 | 5.2 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.7 |
| 30% | 32% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 21% | 22% |
| 14.7 | 13.6 | 18.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.6 | 15.4 | 13.4 |
| 5.5 | 5.8 | 7.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 5.5 | 4.3 |
- DSC Arminia Bielefeld have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- DSC Arminia Bielefeld have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nürnberg have scored away.
- DSC Arminia Bielefeld have the fewest clean sheets (2) in 2. Bundesliga
- DSC Arminia Bielefeld haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Nürnberg have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Nürnberg have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Nürnberg have the fewest scored goals (8) away in 2. Bundesliga
- Nürnberg have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in 2. Bundesliga
- Nürnberg have the the worst goal difference (-15) away in 2. Bundesliga
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Darmstadt 98 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 38 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 17 | 49 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 23 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 44 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 18 | 48 |
| 3 | Heidenheim | 24 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 46 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 20 | 47 |
| 4 | Paderborn | 24 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 47 | 29 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 32 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 40 |
| 5 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 24 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 38 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 39 |
| 6 | Kaiserslautern | 24 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 39 | 32 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 39 |
| 7 | St. Pauli | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 34 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 38 |
| 8 | Holstein Kiel | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 40 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 23 | 2 | 33 |
| 9 | Karlsruher SC | 23 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 35 | 33 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 31 |
| 10 | Hannover 96 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 30 |
| 11 | Magdeburg | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 31 | 42 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 26 | -11 | 28 |
| 12 | Nürnberg | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 35 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 23 | -15 | 28 |
| 13 | Greuther Furth | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 30 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 23 | -7 | 27 |
| 14 | DSC Arminia Bielefeld | 24 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 34 | 39 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 20 | -5 | 24 |
| 15 | Hansa Rostock | 23 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -13 | 24 |
| 16 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 24 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 29 | 43 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 26 | -14 | 22 |
| 17 | Sandhausen | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 26 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 23 | -17 | 21 |
| 18 | Jahn Regensburg | 23 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 39 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 21 | -17 | 20 |
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