Read up on this engrossing game in the 2. Bundesliga. Hansa Rostock is in the 1st spot after featuring in two fixtures. They welcome Hannover 96 who are placed 11th after two matches.
Both teams have had time to rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's trust this will be an in-your-face fixture!
Hansa Rostock form and stats
The hosts won their first 2. Bundesliga game here at Ostseestadion, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Hansa Rostock last season were 6 wins, 1 draw and 10 losses from 17 games.
The Hansa Rostock manager Schwartz and his players return home after a 1-1 draw away versus FSV Frankfurt in the DFB Pokal. Rossipal was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.31 out of 10. The defender Rossipal hit six key passes and won 6 of 8 duels.
In the game before, an away victory in the 2. Bundesliga match versus Elversberg with a 2-1 scoreline.This is expected to be a close game, with Hansa Rostock perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Rostock as a small favourite), we find 10 games. Hansa Rostock has won 4 of these, drawn 3 and lost 3.
Hansa Rostock has scored {2 goals} so far and conceded {0 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Hannover 96 form and stats
The visitors settled for one point in their first 2. Bundesliga away game of the season. During their previous season 17 away games resulted in 4 wins, 5 draws and 8 defeats.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Sandhausen in their previous outing. The DFB Pokal fixture ended 3-3.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Nurnberg.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Hannover 96 in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Hannover 96, 2 draws and 7 defeats.
It's early days yet, but Hannover 96 has scored 2 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last seven meetings: one - two - four (Rostock wins - draws - Hannover 96 wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Teuchert 3 goals |   J. Perea Mendoza 2 goals |  N. Fröling 1 goals |
Hansa Rostock missing players
Hannover 96 missing players
| Hansa Rostock | Hannover 96 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 6 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 7 | 5 |
| 6.5 | 6 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5.5 |
| 3.5 | 3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 16 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 17 | 14 |
| 5.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 4.5 |
| 36% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 40% | 44% |
| 14 | 15 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 8 | 15.5 |
| 5.5 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Hansa Rostock | Last season | Hannover 96 | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 34 | 17 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Lost | L | 8 | 14 | ||
| 32 | 18 | Scored | S | 23 | 50 | ||
| 48 | 25 | Conceded | C | 29 | 55 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 94% | 97% | ||
| 71% | 76% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 76% | 82% | ||
| 38% | 35% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 59% | ||
| 18% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 35% | 32% | ||
| 6% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 24% | 18% | ||
| 32% | 35% | BTTS | BTTS | 65% | 65% | ||
| 26% | 18% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 47% | Failed to Score | F T | 24% | 15% | ||
| 4.7 | 5.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.4 | ||
| 6.1 | 5.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.5 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 12.3 | 14.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.4 | 11.9 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 4.6 | ||
| 29% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | ||
| 14.7 | 12.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.4 | 16.6 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hansa Rostock | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Holstein Kiel | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Karlsruher SC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Magdeburg | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | St. Pauli | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Greuther Furth | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 10 | Schalke 04 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Hannover 96 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Osnabruck | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 13 | Elversberg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 14 | Nurnberg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 15 | Paderborn | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 1 |
| 16 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 17 | Hertha BSC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 18 | Kaiserslautern | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Heidenheim | 34 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 67 | 36 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 41 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 31 | 67 |
| 2 | Darmstadt 98 | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 50 | 33 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 67 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 70 | 45 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 20 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 25 | 25 | 66 |
| 4 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 60 | 43 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 38 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 24 | 17 | 58 |
| 5 | St. Pauli | 34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 55 | 39 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 31 | 28 | 16 | 58 |
| 6 | Paderborn | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 68 | 44 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 46 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 55 |
| 7 | Karlsruher SC | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 56 | 53 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 25 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 24 | 28 | 3 | 46 |
| 8 | Holstein Kiel | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 58 | 61 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 29 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 29 | 32 | -3 | 46 |
| 9 | Kaiserslautern | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 47 | 48 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 26 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 22 | -1 | 45 |
| 10 | Hannover 96 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 50 | 55 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 26 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 29 | -5 | 44 |
| 11 | Magdeburg | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 48 | 55 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 33 | -7 | 43 |
| 12 | Greuther Furth | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 47 | 50 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 31 | -3 | 41 |
| 13 | Hansa Rostock | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 32 | 48 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 23 | -16 | 41 |
| 14 | Nurnberg | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 32 | 49 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 32 | -17 | 39 |
| 15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 42 | 59 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 37 | -17 | 36 |
| 16 | Arminia Bielefeld | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 50 | 62 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 29 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 33 | -12 | 34 |
| 17 | Jahn Regensburg | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 34 | 58 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 28 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 17 | 30 | -24 | 31 |
| 18 | Sandhausen | 34 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 35 | 63 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 33 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 30 | -28 | 28 |
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