Fortuna Düsseldorf are thought of as expected winners of this home game against St. Pauli, if the league standings are to be trusted. Or are we in for a surprise?
- Fortuna Düsseldorf have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- St. Pauli have yet to win a game away.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Fortuna Düsseldorf form and stats
Fortuna Düsseldorf are steadily winning 2. Bundesliga games and points here at Merkur Spiel-Arena. 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 6 games.
A good away victory last time out for Fortuna Düsseldorf, who won 2-1 against Holstein Kiel (placed 8th). Zimmermann, defender, was given a rating of 7.44/10 in that game, top of the team. Zimmermann won 3 of 3 duels.
In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Karlsruher SC.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Fortuna Düsseldorf handle that role? We have found 11 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.
Düsseldorf are traveling soon after this match as the 2. Bundesliga match at Hannover 96 awaits in three days.
Fortuna Düsseldorf can score goals in their home matches. After 6 league matches they have found the net 15 times.
St. Pauli form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for St. Pauli so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-5 (win-draw-lose). The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Schultz, the Pauli manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
St. Pauli played 1-1 against Darmstadt 98 in their previous match. Midfielder Paqarada was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.25. Paqarada hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 0-2 defeat away at DSC Arminia Bielefeld before that.St. Pauli are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
After this away game Pauli return home for a 2. Bundesliga game against Holstein Kiel. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting St. Pauli as they have only managed to score 6 times from 7 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Düsseldorf victories, two draws and three St. Pauli wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Kownacki 6 goals |  S. Appelkamp 4 goals |   J. Irvine 3 goals |
Fortuna Düsseldorf missing players
St. Pauli missing players
| Fortuna Düsseldorf | St. Pauli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 24 | 15 | 6 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 19 |
| 16 | 6 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 14 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 79% | 83% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 93% |
| 64% | 83% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 57% |
| 36% | 67% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 29% | 29% |
| 7% | 17% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 57% | 67% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 57% | 57% |
| 14% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 21% |
| 29% | 17% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 43% | 29% |
| 4.9 | 5.2 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5 | 5.6 |
| 4.9 | 2.7 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| 2.4 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 13.5 | 16.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 13.3 | 16.6 |
| 4.6 | 5.3 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.4 | 4.9 |
| 38% | 47% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 25% | 28% |
| 11 | 11.3 | 11.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 10.7 | 10.4 |
| 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
- All of St. Pauli's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf have scored at least twice as many goals at home as St. Pauli have scored away.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Pauli have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- St. Pauli have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- St. Pauli have yet to win a game away.
- St. Pauli haven’t played a single 0-0 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 | Darmstadt 98 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 29 |
| 2 | Paderborn | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 26 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 4 | Heidenheim | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 24 |
| 5 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 23 |
| 6 | Hannover 96 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 21 |
| 7 | Kaiserslautern | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 22 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 20 |
| 8 | Holstein Kiel | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 17 | -1 | 20 |
| 9 | Jahn Regensburg | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -7 | 18 |
| 10 | Karlsruher SC | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 17 |
| 11 | Hansa Rostock | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -6 | 17 |
| 12 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 16 |
| 13 | St. Pauli | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -1 | 15 |
| 14 | Nurnberg | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 15 |
| 15 | Magdeburg | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -11 | 14 |
| 16 | Greuther Furth | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -6 | 13 |
| 17 | Sandhausen | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -6 | 12 |
| 18 | DSC Arminia Bielefeld | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | -8 | 11 |
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