Delightful dogfight as daring Hansa Rostock duel with determined Sandhausen

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Fri 04.November
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Ostseestadion (29000 seats)

Hansa Rostock have won 17 points performing as the hosts. Sandhausen have claimed 13 points being the away side. Could we look at anything else than a home win?

Insights:
  • Hansa Rostock have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sandhausen 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.

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Hansa Rostock form and stats

Hansa Rostock have collected 9 points from their 2. Bundesliga home games so far after 3-0-4. Rostock are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Ostseestadion, having lost their two previous games here.

Hansa Rostock are returning here after visiting Jahn Regensburg and winning with a 3-0 scoreline. Pröger (2) scored the goal(s). At last, a league victory after four games without one. Pröger (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.82/10. Pröger scored two goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Ahead of that match, Hansa Rostock lost 0-2 at home to Kaiserslautern.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Rostock 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 6 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Hansa Rostock's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 9 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Sandhausen form and stats

Sandhausen have only collected 2 points from their away games in the 2. Bundesliga, after 0-2-5 (7 played). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Sandhausen have lost on their last two travels.

Sandhausen delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Eintracht Braunschweig (placed 11th) in their previous game. The attacker Esswein got a match rating of 7.81 in that game. Esswein served one assist and hit two key passes.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Jahn Regensburg wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

Sandhausen are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 9 defeats. From a total of 13 matches.

The visitors have scored 6 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As for defending, Sandhausen rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 13 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two Rostock victories, two draws and one Sandhausen win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Hansa RostockK. Pröger
K. Pröger
6 goals
SandhausenD. Kinsombi
D. Kinsombi
6 goals
Hansa RostockL. Fröde
L. Fröde
3 goals

Hansa Rostock missing players

Sandhausen missing players

Hansa Rostock Sandhausen
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 7 3 Played P 3 7 14
5 3 3 Won W 0 0 3
2 0 0 Drew D 0 2 4
7 4 0 Lost L 3 5 7
15 7 7 Scored S 3 6 15
21 9 2 Conceded C 6 13 21
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
79% 71% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 86% 71%
50% 43% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 57% 57%
29% 14% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 14% 21%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 14% 14%
36% 29% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 71% 64%
21% 14% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 21%
43% 57% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 29% 21%
 
4.6 5.9 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2.7 2 3.7
6.4 6.3 7.7 Corners against (avg) C A 6.7 7.7 6.4
2.9 2.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.6 3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
12.6 14.1 15.3 Shots (avg) S ( 9.3 7.9 10.1
3.1 3.4 5.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3 3.4
35% 29% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 29% 31%
 
15.2 13.6 14 Shots against (avg) S A 14.3 15.9 13.2
4.9 4 2.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 4.6 4.1
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • Hansa Rostock have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Hansa Rostock haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sandhausen have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Sandhausen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sandhausen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Sandhausen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Sandhausen have yet to win a game away.
  • Sandhausen 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 Hamburger SV 14 9 1 4 22 15 7 3 1 3 8 7 7 6 0 1 14 8 7 28
3 Paderborn 14 8 2 4 34 15 8 6 0 2 26 9 6 2 2 2 8 6 19 26
4 Heidenheim 14 6 6 2 21 13 6 4 2 0 13 6 8 2 4 2 8 7 8 24
5 Hannover 96 14 7 3 4 22 16 7 4 2 1 10 6 7 3 1 3 12 10 6 24
6 Fortuna Dusseldorf 14 7 2 5 24 16 6 4 1 1 15 6 8 3 1 4 9 10 8 23
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 14 5 2 7 21 20 7 3 1 3 11 9 7 2 1 4 10 11 1 17
11 Eintracht Braunschweig 14 4 5 5 17 23 7 3 2 2 10 9 7 1 3 3 7 14 -6 17
12 Hansa Rostock 14 5 2 7 15 21 7 3 0 4 7 9 7 2 2 3 8 12 -6 17
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 14 3 4 7 15 21 7 3 2 2 9 8 7 0 2 5 6 13 -6 13
18 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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