The visiting St. Pauli team should be front runners at Holstein Kiel, as the away side enjoy a 18 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.
- Holstein Kiel have the fewest clean sheets (1) in 2. Bundesliga
- St. Pauli have won significantly less corners away then at home.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Holstein Kiel form and stats
3-2-4 (win-draw-lost) are the 2. Bundesliga numbers at home for Holstein Kiel, who have the fewest clean sheets (1) in 2. Bundesliga, so far this season.
The spoils were shared in Holstein Kiel's previous game, also at home. Visiting Sandhausen (placed 17th) travelled back with a draw after a 2-2 scoreline. Skrzybski was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Sandhausen after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? The forward Benedikt Pichler was announced as "man of the match" for Holstein with a rating of 8.01/10. Pichler scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Nurnberg (1-2).This is expected to be a close game, with Holstein Kiel perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Holstein Kiel as a small favourite), we find eight games. Holstein has won four of these, drawn two and lost two.
The Holstein Kiel fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 9 matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Holstein have conceded 16 from these games. When Holstein hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Erzgebirge Aue, Dynamo Dresden, Sandhausen, Ingolstadt and Hansa Rostock), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.
St. Pauli form and stats
3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of St. Pauli playing as the away team in the 2. Bundesliga this season.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Fortuna Düsseldorf (placed 11th) in their previous outing. The 2. Bundesliga match ended in a draw 1-1. Marcel Hartel got a match rating of 7.71 in that game, top player of the team. Hartel scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 45 successful passes (of 52 total).
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Schalke 04.So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with St. Pauli playing away and similar expectations, we found 13 relevant matches. Results were four St. Pauli wins, three draws and six defeats.
Pauli are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 13 away goals from 9 games (in the league). Pauli have conceded 15 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
St. Pauli - Holstein 3-0 was the result in these sides' previous h2h fixture, played this season. Head to head totals (for the previous ten meetings): Holstein won five games, one match ended with a tie and St. Pauli managed four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  G. Burgstaller 14 goals |   B. Pichler 5 goals | D. Kyereh 5 goals |
Holstein Kiel missing players
St. Pauli missing players
| Holstein Kiel | St. Pauli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 17 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 20 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 13 | 37 |
| 30 | 16 | 7 | Conceded | C | 0 | 15 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 89% | 94% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 78% | 88% |
| 76% | 78% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 56% | 71% |
| 18% | 11% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 56% | 53% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 22% | 24% |
| 65% | 44% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 59% |
| 6% | 11% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 11% | 29% |
| 29% | 44% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 33% | 18% |
| 5.2 | 5.6 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.7 | 5.6 |
| 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.1 | 3.8 |
| 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15.3 | 17.2 | 18.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 12.7 | 15.2 |
| 4.5 | 5.6 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.6 | 5.5 |
| 26% | 20% | 7% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 40% |
| 14.1 | 13.2 | 11.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 13.2 | 11.3 |
| 4.2 | 3.9 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.6 | 3.5 |
- All of Holstein Kiel's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Holstein Kiel have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Holstein Kiel have the fewest clean sheets (1) in 2. Bundesliga
- Holstein Kiel have the most conceded goals in the first half (19) in 2. Bundesliga
- Holstein Kiel haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Pauli have won significantly less corners away then 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 | St. Pauli | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 37 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 36 |
| 2 | Darmstadt 98 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 39 | 20 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 19 | 32 |
| 3 | Schalke 04 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 33 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 29 |
| 4 | Jahn Regensburg | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 28 |
| 5 | Paderborn | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 7 | 11 | 27 |
| 6 | Nurnberg | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 27 |
| 7 | Heidenheim | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -1 | 27 |
| 8 | Hamburger SV | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 26 |
| 9 | Werder Bremen | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 26 |
| 10 | Karlsruher SC | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 21 |
| 11 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 11 | -1 | 20 |
| 12 | Hannover 96 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 16 | -10 | 20 |
| 13 | Dynamo Dresden | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 19 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -3 | 19 |
| 14 | Hansa Rostock | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -7 | 19 |
| 15 | Holstein Kiel | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 14 | -10 | 18 |
| 16 | Erzgebirge Aue | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -12 | 14 |
| 17 | Sandhausen | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 18 | -17 | 14 |
| 18 | Ingolstadt | 17 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 37 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 23 | -26 | 7 |
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