The home team, Heidenheim, should be front runners in this fixture, but Karlsruher SC have exhibited both ability and intrepidity. Read more about the game!
- Heidenheim have the the best goal difference (+20) in 2. Bundesliga
- Karlsruher SC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
Both teams have had plenty of rest since their last work day in an official game. Let's have faith in that this will be an animated match!
Heidenheim form and stats
Home games in the 2. Bundesliga have been a walk in the park for Heidenheim so far, with 30 points won from 12 matches; 9 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Heidenheim after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Heidenheim shared the glory with Fortuna Dusseldorf in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. The versatile forward Kleindienst bested all the other players in that game and managed a match rating of 8.1 out of 10. Kleindienst scored one goal and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Darmstadt 98.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 Heidenheim have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 10 matches with the results: Won 8, drawn 0 and lost 2.
Goals are plentiful at Voith-Arena in the league this season as Heidenheim has scored 32 goals here in 12 home games. On the other hand, Heidenheim have conceded 13 goals.
Karlsruher SC form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their 2. Bundesliga travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats. Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Heidenheim.
Impressive finishing from Nebel, Schleusener (2) and Jensen secured the home win 4-2 against Hamburger SV in their previous game. A stark raving crazy fixture with masses of goals last time out for Karlsruher, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that fun game, will this fixture be as full of joy? The attacker Schleusener got a match rating of 9.12 in that game. Schleusener scored two goals, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hansa Rostock at their stadium, the result 2-0.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Karlsruher SC playing away and similar expectations, we found 5 relevant matches. Results were 2 Karlsruher SC wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
The visiting Karlsruher SC have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 16 goals from 11 games. Karlsruher have conceded 14 goals in these away matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.
Head 2 Head
The two combatants have battled earlier this season: Karlsruher SC - Heidenheim 0-0. Previous ten meetings with these contenders: Heidenheim won four, Karlsruher SC were winners in two and we saw four draws. four games with more than 2,5 goals, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Kleindienst 16 goals |   F. Schleusener 10 goals |  M. Wanitzek 8 goals |
Heidenheim missing players
Karlsruher SC missing players
| Heidenheim | Karlsruher SC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 24 |
| 13 | 9 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 46 | 32 | 7 | Scored | S | 0 | 16 | 39 |
| 26 | 13 | 1 | Conceded | C | 8 | 14 | 35 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 75% | 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 82% | 79% |
| 54% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 45% | 54% |
| 33% | 42% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 18% | 29% |
| 17% | 25% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 18% | 29% |
| 50% | 58% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 36% | 46% |
| 42% | 42% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 27% | 29% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 36% | 29% |
| 5.4 | 5.8 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 4.8 | 5.9 |
| 4 | 3.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5 | 4.2 |
| 1.7 | 1.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13.7 | 15.4 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 13.6 | 15.1 |
| 4.7 | 5.8 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| 41% | 46% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 28% | 31% |
| 12.2 | 10.7 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.7 | 13 | 13.6 |
| 3.1 | 2.5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
- Heidenheim have not yet lost a game at home.
- Heidenheim have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Heidenheim have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Heidenheim have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Heidenheim have the most points (30) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Heidenheim have the most scored goals in the first half (24) in 2. Bundesliga
- Heidenheim have the the best goal difference (+19) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Heidenheim have the the best goal difference (+20) in 2. Bundesliga
- Heidenheim haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Karlsruher SC have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Karlsruher SC 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 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 38 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 17 | 49 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 24 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 46 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 16 | 48 |
| 3 | Heidenheim | 24 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 46 | 26 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 20 | 47 |
| 4 | Paderborn | 24 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 47 | 29 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 32 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 40 |
| 5 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 24 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 38 | 30 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 39 |
| 6 | Kaiserslautern | 24 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 39 | 32 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 39 |
| 7 | St. Pauli | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 34 | 28 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 38 |
| 8 | Karlsruher SC | 24 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 39 | 35 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 23 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 34 |
| 9 | Holstein Kiel | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 41 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 23 | 1 | 33 |
| 10 | Hannover 96 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 33 | 32 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 31 |
| 11 | Magdeburg | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 31 | 42 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 26 | -11 | 28 |
| 12 | Nurnberg | 24 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 35 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 23 | -15 | 28 |
| 13 | Greuther Furth | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 30 | 37 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 23 | -7 | 27 |
| 14 | Hansa Rostock | 24 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 32 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -13 | 25 |
| 15 | Arminia Bielefeld | 24 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 34 | 39 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 20 | -5 | 24 |
| 16 | Jahn Regensburg | 24 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 24 | 40 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 22 | -16 | 23 |
| 17 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 24 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 29 | 43 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 26 | -14 | 22 |
| 18 | Sandhausen | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 26 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 23 | -17 | 21 |
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