Delightful dogfight as daring Hannover 96 duels with determined Erzgebirge Aue

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Date: Sat 07.December
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: HDI Arena (49000 seats)

Struggling Hannover 96 will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Erzgebirge Aue in the upcoming league round. It’s 14th vs 5th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Hannover 96 and Erzgebirge Aue should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Hannover 96 form and stats

Hannover 96's results here at HDI Arena in the 2. Bundesliga have been very modest with 0 victories, 4 draws and 3 defeats. Hannover 96 are slowly digging their own grave here at HDI Arena with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Freiburg match.

Happy days for Hannover 96 in their previous game, a 2. Bundesliga match away at St. Pauli (placed 15th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Before that game, the home loss against Darmstadt 98 with the scoreline 1-2.

Hannover 96 have scored 4 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Hannover 96 have conceded 11 from these games.

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Erzgebirge Aue form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Erzgebirge Aue so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-4 (win-draw-lose).

Erzgebirge Aue play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-2 to Bochum (placed 13th). That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus St. Pauli.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Erzgebirge Aue when being an outsider away as they are today, we find seven matches with the visitors losing 5 times, drawing 1 and winning 1 game.

The attacking power of Erzgebirge Aue when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 8 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Erzgebirge Aue have conceded 14 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Last three meetings between the teams: Hannover 96 won 1, Erzgebirge Aue won 0 and 2 draws. 2 games with over 2,5 goals, 1 match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Erzgebirge AueD. Nazarov
D. Nazarov
6 goals
Hannover 96H. Weydandt
H. Weydandt
5 goals
Hannover 96M. Ducksch
M. Ducksch
4 goals

Hannover 96 missing players

Erzgebirge Aue missing players

Hannover 96 Erzgebirge Aue
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 1 Played P 1 8 15
4 0 0 Won W 0 1 6
5 4 0 Drew D 0 3 5
6 3 1 Lost L 1 4 4
16 4 0 Scored S 0 7 23
24 11 2 Conceded C 2 14 22
93% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
87% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 80%
53% 29% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 38% 47%
20% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 47%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
47% 57% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 60%
27% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 20%
33% 43% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 38% 27%
 
4.3 5.3 6 Corners For (avg) C F 2 3.8 3.6
3.8 3.4 2 Corners Against (avg) C A 2 7 6.7
2.7 3.1 5 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 4 2.9 2.7
6 2 1 Red Cards R C 1 2 3
 
207 113 12 Total Shots T S 10 93 182
58 23 4 Shots on Target S O 0 33 65
28% 17% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 35%
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • Erzgebirge Aue haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Hannover 96 has the fewest points (4) at home
  • Hannover 96 has the fewest scored goals (4) at home
  • Hannover 96 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Hannover 96 have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Hannover 96 have yet to win a game at home.

  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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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.