Fortuna Düsseldorf supporters put their faith in manager U. Rösler to deliver victory against Osnabrück

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Wed 16.December
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Merkur Spiel-Arena (54600 seats)

Fortuna Düsseldorf and Osnabrück have both delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golfing expression. Both hold mid-table positions in the 2. Bundesliga.

Insights:
  • Fortuna Düsseldorf has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Osnabrück have not yet lost a game away.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Düsseldorf and Osnabrück.

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Fortuna Düsseldorf form and stats

Overall 2. Bundesliga stats at home this season for Fortuna Düsseldorf are 4-1-0 (wins-draw-losses). Fortuna Düsseldorf are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Fortuna Düsseldorf enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Karlsruher SC's place. The match ended 1-0 with Luka Krajnc scoring. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Darmstadt 98 in a game that was won 3-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Düsseldorf handle that role? We have found five games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, two draws and zero defeats.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Düsseldorf as they are travelling to their away game against St. Pauli in the 2. Bundesliga. That match is four days after this one.

Düsseldorf have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Merkur Spiel-Arena with 8 goals in 5 league matches. Fortuna Düsseldorf are not conceding a lot of goals here at Merkur Spiel-Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 5 matches.

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Osnabrück form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their 2. Bundesliga travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats. Having won their last three away games Osnabrück has no reason to fear anyone.

Osnabrück play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Eintracht Braunschweig (placed 16th). Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Karlsruher SC.

We have checked recent matches where Osnabrück have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eleven games were three victories, six draws and two defeats.

After this away game Osnabrück return home for a 2. Bundesliga game against Paderborn. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The visiting Osnabrück have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 7 goals from 5 games. It's not easy to score on Osnabrück as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last six games between these two teams, there's three Düsseldorf victories, zero draws and three Osnabrück wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

OsnabrückS. Kerk
S. Kerk
4 goals
DüsseldorfK. Karaman
K. Karaman
3 goals
Fortuna DüsseldorfR. Hennings
R. Hennings
3 goals

Fortuna Düsseldorf missing players

Osnabrück missing players

Fortuna Düsseldorf Osnabrück
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 5 1 Played P 1 6 11
5 4 0 Won W 1 3 5
2 1 1 Drew D 0 3 4
4 0 0 Lost L 0 0 2
12 8 2 Scored S 4 8 15
17 4 2 Conceded C 2 4 13
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 91%
64% 40% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 50% 73%
55% 40% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 17% 45%
27% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 17% 18%
18% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 17% 18%
45% 40% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 73%
36% 60% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 27%
18% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 9%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.5 3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.8 2.2
4 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.6 11.4 10 Shots (avg) S ( 7 10.2 11.9
2.7 4.2 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 3.5 4.3
40% 38% 67% Goal Efficiency G E 67% 38% 32%
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • Fortuna Düsseldorf has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Fortuna Düsseldorf have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Fortuna Düsseldorf have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Fortuna Düsseldorf haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Osnabrück have not yet lost a game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Holstein Kiel 11 6 4 1 19 11 6 3 2 1 10 8 5 3 2 0 9 3 8 22
2 Greuther Furth 11 6 3 2 22 11 5 2 1 2 8 5 6 4 2 0 14 6 11 21
3 Bochum 11 6 2 3 21 12 6 3 2 1 12 4 5 3 0 2 9 8 9 20
4 Hamburger SV 11 6 2 3 21 16 6 3 1 2 11 8 5 3 1 1 10 8 5 20
5 Heidenheim 11 5 3 3 17 13 6 4 2 0 11 4 5 1 1 3 6 9 4 18
6 Karlsruher SC 10 5 1 4 16 11 4 2 0 2 7 5 6 3 1 2 9 6 5 16
7 Osnabrück 10 4 4 2 14 13 5 2 1 2 7 9 5 2 3 0 7 4 1 16
8 Erzgebirge Aue 10 4 3 3 14 11 5 2 2 1 7 5 5 2 1 2 7 6 3 15
9 Jahn Regensburg 11 4 3 4 17 17 6 3 1 2 11 9 5 1 2 2 6 8 0 15
10 Paderborn 11 4 2 5 14 13 5 3 0 2 9 7 6 1 2 3 5 6 1 14
11 Fortuna Düsseldorf 10 4 2 4 11 17 5 4 1 0 8 4 5 0 1 4 3 13 -6 14
12 Nürnberg 10 3 4 3 18 15 5 1 2 2 7 8 5 2 2 1 11 7 3 13
13 Hannover 96 11 4 1 6 13 14 5 3 1 1 9 4 6 1 0 5 4 10 -1 13
14 Darmstadt 98 11 3 3 5 19 23 5 1 2 2 7 8 6 2 1 3 12 15 -4 12
15 Sandhausen 11 3 2 6 12 21 6 2 2 2 8 12 5 1 0 4 4 9 -9 11
16 Eintracht Braunschweig 10 3 2 5 11 22 5 3 1 1 8 7 5 0 1 4 3 15 -11 11
17 St. Pauli 10 1 4 5 13 19 4 1 1 2 6 8 6 0 3 3 7 11 -6 7
18 Würzburger Kickers 10 1 1 8 11 24 6 1 1 4 8 14 4 0 0 4 3 10 -13 4

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The 2. Bundesliga (Zweite Bundesliga) is the second level of German professional football. Like the Bundesliga it has 18 clubs playing a total of 306 fixtures to decide the final league table. The two top teams are promoted while number three has to qualify through a playoff. Two or three teams are relegated through a similar system.