2. Bundesliga match prediction: Little separates Eintracht Braunschweig and Sandhausen in quality

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Sun 07.March
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Eintracht-Stadion (23325 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the 2. Bundesliga, Eintracht Braunschweig holding 17th place and Sandhausen lying 16th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Eintracht Braunschweig have the fewest scored goals (21) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Sandhausen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Eintracht Braunschweig form and stats

5 victories, 2 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Eintracht Braunschweig, who have the fewest scored goals (21) in 2. Bundesliga, have to build on here at Eintracht-Stadion in the 2. Bundesliga.

Eintracht Braunschweig are confident in defense, having played 238 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Braunschweig drew their last game, 0-0 away at Nürnberg (placed 13th). Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Jahn Regensburg.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Eintracht Braunschweig have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found nine matches with the results: Won three, drawn two and lost four.

Braunschweig has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 18 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Sandhausen form and stats

There's been little loot from Sandhausen's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 11 away games in the 2. Bundesliga. Sandhausen only have 1 win to counter their 10 defeats and 0 draws. It's all red in the travel logs of Sandhausen, having lost six matches in a row as the visiting team.

Sandhausen won their last game, 3-0 versus Osnabruck played at home. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Paderborn wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 17 similar matches played by Sandhausen in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Sandhausen, three draws and ten defeats.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Sandhausen have conceded 26 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Sandhausen - Eintracht Braunschweig 2-2. Last ten meetings between the teams: Braunschweig won six, Sandhausen won one and three draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

SandhausenK. Behrens
K. Behrens
8 goals
SandhausenD. Keita-Ruel
D. Keita-Ruel
7 goals
BraunschweigN. Proschwitz
N. Proschwitz
6 goals

Eintracht Braunschweig missing players

Sandhausen missing players

Eintracht Braunschweig Sandhausen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
23 12 2 Played P 4 11 23
5 5 1 Won W 1 1 6
6 2 0 Drew D 0 0 3
12 5 1 Lost L 3 10 14
21 14 3 Scored S 5 8 28
43 18 4 Conceded C 7 26 44
83% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
78% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 82% 87%
61% 58% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 82% 70%
39% 25% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 36% 39%
13% 17% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 9% 17%
48% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 75% 55% 52%
26% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 17%
43% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 45% 30%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.7 2.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 3 2.7
6 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
10.1 10.6 9.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.2 9.1 10
2.8 3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.8 2.9 3.5
32% 39% 75% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 25% 35%
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • Eintracht Braunschweig have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Eintracht Braunschweig have the fewest scored goals (21) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Eintracht Braunschweig have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Eintracht Braunschweig have the most conceded goals in the first half (26) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Sandhausen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sandhausen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Sandhausen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sandhausen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bochum 23 14 3 6 43 23 12 8 2 2 26 8 11 6 1 4 17 15 20 45
2 Holstein Kiel 23 13 6 4 37 21 12 7 2 3 19 14 11 6 4 1 18 7 16 45
3 Greuther Furth 23 12 7 4 45 27 11 6 2 3 20 13 12 6 5 1 25 14 18 43
4 Hamburger SV 22 12 6 4 48 28 11 7 2 2 26 10 11 5 4 2 22 18 20 42
5 Karlsruher SC 23 12 3 8 37 30 11 4 2 5 14 13 12 8 1 3 23 17 7 39
6 Heidenheim 23 10 6 7 35 31 12 8 3 1 24 10 11 2 3 6 11 21 4 36
7 Fortuna Düsseldorf 23 10 6 7 34 32 11 7 3 1 19 12 12 3 3 6 15 20 2 36
8 Hannover 96 23 10 4 9 35 27 11 6 3 2 20 9 12 4 1 7 15 18 8 34
9 Erzgebirge Aue 23 9 5 9 31 31 11 6 3 2 20 14 12 3 2 7 11 17 0 32
10 Paderborn 23 8 7 8 28 27 11 6 3 2 19 14 12 2 4 6 9 13 1 31
11 Jahn Regensburg 23 7 8 8 25 29 12 5 4 3 17 14 11 2 4 5 8 15 -4 29
12 St. Pauli 22 7 7 8 36 40 11 4 3 4 18 20 11 3 4 4 18 20 -4 28
13 Nürnberg 23 7 6 10 29 34 12 3 4 5 14 18 11 4 2 5 15 16 -5 27
14 Darmstadt 98 23 7 4 12 34 40 12 4 2 6 14 16 11 3 2 6 20 24 -6 25
15 Osnabruck 23 6 4 13 22 37 11 2 1 8 11 19 12 4 3 5 11 18 -15 22
16 Sandhausen 23 6 3 14 28 44 12 5 3 4 20 18 11 1 0 10 8 26 -16 21
17 Eintracht Braunschweig 23 5 6 12 21 43 12 5 2 5 14 18 11 0 4 7 7 25 -22 21
18 Würzburger Kickers 23 4 3 16 25 49 11 3 3 5 16 22 12 1 0 11 9 27 -24 15

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