With their 2 point advantage in the league table, Greuther Fürth fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Bochum.
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 Greuther Fürth and Bochum.
Greuther Fürth form and stats
4-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the 2. Bundesliga numbers at home for Greuther Fürth so far this season.
B. Hrgota was the last player to score a league goal for Greuther Fürth and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Greuther Fürth haven't scored in 218 minutes.
The Greuther Fürth supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Bochum in 2. Bundesliga and win 1-0. Prior to that, an away loss at Heidenheim.
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 Greuther Fürth have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 16 matches with the results: Won 11 Drawn 2 Lost 3.
Greuther Fürth has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. Greuther Fürth have conceded 7 in these home matches.
Bochum form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Bochum so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-4 (win-draw-lose).
It might be tough going out on the road again for Bochum, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Greuther Fürth (placed 11th). A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Erzgebirge Aue.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Bochum in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Bochum, 4 draws and 7 defeats.
Bochum have scored 8 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Bochum have conceded 12 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Greuther Fürth won 1, Bochum won 4 and 5 draws. 6 games with over 2,5 goals, 4 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
 
S. Ganvoula
8 goals
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D. Blum
6 goals
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D. Keita-Ruel
5 goals
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Greuther Fürth missing players
Bochum missing players
| Greuther Fürth | Bochum | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs
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Statistics | Stat | vs
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Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 6 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 17 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 8 | 27 |
| 19 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 13 | 28 |
| 88% | 88% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 69% | 62% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 88% |
| 38% | 38% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 25% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 25% | 50% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 25% |
| 38% | 25% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 81% |
| 31% | 50% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 44% | 38% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 4.9 | 5.5 | 6.7 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 2.8 | 3.7 |
| 4.8 | 3.6 | 4.7 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 5 | 7.2 | 5.9 |
| 2.2 | 1.5 | 2.3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 228 | 124 | 46 | Total Shots | T S | 30 | 85 | 223 |
| 68 | 37 | 11 | Shots on Target | S O | 8 | 24 | 75 |
| 25% | 24% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 33% | 36% |
- Bochum has the most dropped points from leading position (12)
- Bochum has the most scored goals in the first half (14)
- Bochum have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Bochum have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Bochum have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Bochum 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 | Arminia Bielefeld | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 35 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 17 | 33 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 33 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 29 |
| 3 | Heidenheim | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 26 |
| 4 | Stuttgart | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 26 |
| 5 | Erzgebirge Aue | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 23 |
| 6 | Holstein Kiel | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 21 |
| 7 | Sandhausen | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 21 |
| 8 | Jahn Regensburg | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 20 |
| 9 | Osnabrück | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 20 |
| 10 | Karlsruher SC | 16 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 28 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 18 | -2 | 20 |
| 11 | Greuther Fürth | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 19 |
| 12 | Darmstadt 98 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -5 | 18 |
| 13 | Bochum | 15 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 27 | 27 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 17 |
| 14 | Hannover 96 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 13 | -8 | 17 |
| 15 | St. Pauli | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -3 | 15 |
| 16 | Nürnberg | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | -8 | 15 |
| 17 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | -13 | 13 |
| 18 | Dynamo Dresden | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 17 | -12 | 12 |
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