The home advantage belongs to Hansa Rostock in this match against Erzgebirge Aue, but the away team will fight to the end. Here's our complete match preview!
- Hansa Rostock have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in 2. Bundesliga
- Erzgebirge Aue have yet to win a game away.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Hansa Rostock form and stats
2-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the 2. Bundesliga numbers at home for Hansa Rostock so far this season.
Rostock are returning here after visiting Jahn Regensburg in a 2. Bundesliga game and winning with a 3-2 scoreline. John Verhoek (2) and Hanno Behrens scored the goal(s). The gifted forward John Verhoek edged out all the other footballers in that game and got a match rating of 8.2 out of 10. Verhoek scored two goals and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
In the preceding match a 3-2 victory visiting Jahn Regensburg.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Rostock handle that role? We have found 17 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are nine wins, three draws and five defeats.
Rostock has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 11 goals have been conceded.
Erzgebirge Aue form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Erzgebirge Aue so far with only 3 points returning home. The records show 0-3-3 (win-draw-lose).
Erzgebirge are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the 2. Bundesliga against Heidenheim (placed 9th). Erzgebirge Aue goalie Martin Männel was high and low in the Heidenheim game, contributing six saves towards the victory. The attacker Antonio Jonjic got a match rating of 8.81 in that game. Jonjic scored two goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 4 of 6 times.
Before that, Erzgebirge Aue travelled to Hannover 96 and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.Erzgebirge Aue are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, three draws and seven defeats. From a total of twelve matches.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Erzgebirge have conceded 10 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Rostock three wins, one draw and Erzgebirge Aue five victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Verhoek 8 goals |  H. Behrens 3 goals |   A. Jonjic 3 goals |
Hansa Rostock missing players
Erzgebirge Aue missing players
| Hansa Rostock | Erzgebirge Aue | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 22 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 85% |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 69% |
| 62% | 67% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 38% |
| 31% | 33% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 23% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 15% |
| 54% | 83% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 54% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 31% |
| 31% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 31% |
| 4.2 | 6.2 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 3.7 | 4 |
| 4.8 | 2.8 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5 | 5.3 |
| 2.8 | 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.3 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11.6 | 14.5 | 15.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 13.8 | 13.5 |
| 4.5 | 5.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 3 | 3.7 |
| 28% | 21% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 28% | 23% |
| 12.5 | 10.7 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 15.2 | 13.8 |
| 4.6 | 4 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
- All of Hansa Rostock's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Erzgebirge Aue have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Erzgebirge Aue have yet to win a game away.
- Hansa Rostock have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Hansa Rostock have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Hansa Rostock have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in 2. Bundesliga
- Hansa Rostock have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Hansa Rostock have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Hansa Rostock 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 | St. Pauli | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 26 |
| 2 | Jahn Regensburg | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 29 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 25 |
| 3 | Paderborn | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 24 |
| 4 | Darmstadt 98 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 23 |
| 5 | Schalke 04 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 22 |
| 6 | Nurnberg | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 21 |
| 7 | Hamburger SV | 13 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 8 | Werder Bremen | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 19 |
| 9 | Heidenheim | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 18 |
| 10 | Karlsruher SC | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 17 |
| 11 | Hansa Rostock | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 12 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 16 |
| 13 | Holstein Kiel | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 10 | -9 | 14 |
| 14 | Dynamo Dresden | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -4 | 13 |
| 15 | Hannover 96 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | -8 | 13 |
| 16 | Sandhausen | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -11 | 12 |
| 17 | Erzgebirge Aue | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | -8 | 11 |
| 18 | Ingolstadt | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 19 | -22 | 5 |
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