The league table in 2. Bundesliga tells a story about these teams so far, with Karlsruher SC leading Nürnberg by 13 points. Match preview to follow:
- Nürnberg has the most dropped points from leading position (19) in 2. Bundesliga
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Karlsruher SC form and stats
Karlsruher SC have collected 14 points from their 2. Bundesliga home games so far after 4-2-4.
A good away victory last time out for Karlsruher SC, who won 3-2 against Sandhausen (placed 16th). The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Jahn Regensburg.
An impressive turnaround for Karlsruher in the match against Sandhausen as a 0-2 deficit was completely turned around to a 3-2 win. Kyoung-Rok Choi scored the final goal. Karlsruher goalkeeper Marius Gersbeck did an outstanding job against Sandhausen with six saves, so vital to securing the victory.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Karlsruher handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are two wins, three draws and four defeats.
Karlsruher has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. Karlsruher's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Nürnberg form and stats
3-2-5 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Nürnberg in their 2. Bundesliga matches away.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a 2. Bundesliga home defeat versus St. Pauli with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Darmstadt 98.
Nürnberg are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and six defeats. From a total of eight matches.
Nürnberg find the net regularly in their away games. 14 goals from 10 away fixtures in the league. Nürnberg struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 16 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Nürnberg - Karlsruher 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Karlsruher two wins, five draws and Nürnberg three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Hofmann 9 goals |   M. Schäffler 8 goals |  M. Wanitzek 5 goals |
Karlsruher SC missing players
Nürnberg missing players
| Karlsruher SC | Nürnberg | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 36 | 14 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 14 | 28 |
| 29 | 12 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 34 |
| 95% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 76% | 60% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 90% | 81% |
| 62% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 48% |
| 33% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 40% | 33% |
| 29% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 24% |
| 62% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 67% |
| 24% | 40% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 10% | 14% |
| 19% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 30% | 19% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.6 | 2.4 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2 | 1.9 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.8 | 13.7 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 12.2 | 12.6 |
| 4.3 | 4.9 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 40% | 29% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 33% | 30% |
- Nürnberg has the fewest points from losing position (0) in 2. Bundesliga
- Nürnberg has the most dropped points from leading position (19) in 2. Bundesliga
- Nürnberg have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Nürnberg 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 | Hamburger SV | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 46 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 15 | 21 | 42 |
| 2 | Bochum | 21 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 40 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 23 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 42 |
| 3 | Holstein Kiel | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 35 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 16 | 42 |
| 4 | Greuther Furth | 21 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 41 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 12 | 17 | 39 |
| 5 | Karlsruher SC | 21 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 36 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 36 |
| 6 | Hannover 96 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 31 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 33 |
| 7 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 21 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 29 | 27 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 33 |
| 8 | Heidenheim | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 28 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 2 | 29 |
| 9 | Erzgebirge Aue | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 29 |
| 10 | Paderborn | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 24 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 27 |
| 11 | Jahn Regensburg | 21 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 13 | -3 | 26 |
| 12 | Darmstadt 98 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 32 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 21 | -4 | 25 |
| 13 | St. Pauli | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 33 | 38 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 20 | -5 | 25 |
| 14 | Nürnberg | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 28 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 16 | -6 | 23 |
| 15 | Osnabrück | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -11 | 22 |
| 16 | Sandhausen | 21 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 24 | 42 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 24 | -18 | 18 |
| 17 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 21 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 43 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 25 | -24 | 17 |
| 18 | Würzburger Kickers | 21 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 22 | 44 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 24 | -22 | 12 |
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