Football match preview: Magdeburg vs Hamburger SV

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 29.April
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: MDCC-Arena (27250 seats)

Both these contenders are capable of winning this one, Hamburger SV enjoying a 21 point edge on Magdeburg in the standings. Bring it on!

Insights:
  • Magdeburg have the most matches over the total-line (20) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Hamburger SV have the most scored goals (58) in 2. Bundesliga

Both squads have had enough rest since their previous match. Let's trust this will be an active game!

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Magdeburg form and stats

When playing at home in the 2. Bundesliga, Magdeburg have managed 4 wins, 3 draws and suffered 7 defeats from 14 games.

It's back home for Magdeburg, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Eintracht Braunschweig away with the result 2-1. Ito and Kwarteng found the net in that victory. The victory against Eintracht Braunschweig came after Ito's winning goal. The Magdeburg manager Titz was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 62nd minute. The gifted forward Atik edged out all others in that match and was awarded a match rating of 8.42 out of 10. Atik served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 5 of 5 times and had 35 successful passes (of 41 total).

Before that game, the home loss against Sandhausen with the scoreline 1-2.

Lots of goals and action? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 8 of the 10 latest league matches with this club has contained three goals or more.

On the other hand, Magdeburg have conceded 18 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Hamburger SV form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (58) in 2. Bundesliga, on their 2. Bundesliga travels is 7 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

Hamburger SV won their last game, 4-3 versus St. Pauli played at home. A crazy, crazy game with heaps of goals last time out for Hamburger, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that entertaining match, will this fixture be as enjoying? Midfielder Reis was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.6. Reis hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Kaiserslautern wasn't a success with a 0-2 loss.

Hamburger SV are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 24 times in 14 away games so far. Hamburger SV's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 21 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

These opponents have played previously this season: Hamburger SV - Magdeburg 2-3. Magdeburg-Hamburger SV H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Magdeburg two wins, Hamburger SV two wins, zero draws. three of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The games between these teams sometimes lean towards being rough and physical, having seen 2 red cards from the last four encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Hamburger SVR. Glatzel
R. Glatzel
17 goals
MagdeburgM. Kwarteng
M. Kwarteng
9 goals
Hamburger SVL. Reis
L. Reis
8 goals

Magdeburg missing players

Hamburger SV missing players

Magdeburg Hamburger SV
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 14 5 Played P 5 14 29
10 4 0 Won W 2 7 17
5 3 2 Drew D 0 3 5
14 7 3 Lost L 3 4 7
39 14 3 Scored S 7 24 58
50 18 6 Conceded C 10 21 38
97% 93% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
83% 79% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 93% 83%
69% 50% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 60% 50% 55%
31% 7% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 40% 36% 38%
17% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 40% 29% 31%
62% 50% 60% BTTS BTTS 60% 50% 55%
14% 29% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 31%
28% 29% 40% Failed to Score F T 40% 21% 17%
 
4.7 4.9 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.8 4.1 5.2
5.3 4.6 5.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5.8 5.5 5
2.3 2 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.6 2.1
4 2 1 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
14.3 15 12.4 Shots (avg) S ( 13.6 13.6 15.2
4.8 5 3.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.6 4.6 5.4
28% 20% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 37% 37%
 
15.8 12.8 16.6 Shots against (avg) S A 14.4 16.3 13.4
5.4 5.1 4.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.8 6 4.9
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • Hamburger SV have the most scored goals (58) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Hamburger SV have the most scored goals in the second half (36) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Hamburger SV have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Hamburger SV haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Magdeburg have the most matches over the total-line (20) in 2. Bundesliga

  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 29 18 7 4 45 24 15 10 5 0 26 10 14 8 2 4 19 14 21 61
2 Hamburger SV 29 17 5 7 58 38 15 10 2 3 34 17 14 7 3 4 24 21 20 56
3 Heidenheim 28 15 9 4 56 31 14 10 3 1 37 16 14 5 6 3 19 15 25 54
4 St. Pauli 29 13 8 8 45 34 14 8 5 1 21 9 15 5 3 7 24 25 11 47
5 Fortuna Dusseldorf 29 14 5 10 48 38 14 9 3 2 29 14 15 5 2 8 19 24 10 47
6 Paderborn 28 14 4 10 54 34 14 10 0 4 38 16 14 4 4 6 16 18 20 46
7 Kaiserslautern 28 11 10 7 43 37 14 6 6 2 25 20 14 5 4 5 18 17 6 43
8 Holstein Kiel 28 10 10 8 48 46 14 5 4 5 24 21 14 5 6 3 24 25 2 40
9 Karlsruher SC 29 11 6 12 48 46 15 7 3 5 28 24 14 4 3 7 20 22 2 39
10 Hannover 96 29 10 7 12 40 44 14 6 3 5 21 20 15 4 4 7 19 24 -4 37
11 Greuther Furth 29 9 9 11 39 43 14 7 6 1 22 15 15 2 3 10 17 28 -4 36
12 Magdeburg 29 10 5 14 39 50 14 4 3 7 14 18 15 6 2 7 25 32 -11 35
13 Nürnberg 29 9 6 14 26 41 15 7 2 6 15 14 14 2 4 8 11 27 -15 33
14 Eintracht Braunschweig 29 8 8 13 35 47 15 6 3 6 20 19 14 2 5 7 15 28 -12 32
15 DSC Arminia Bielefeld 29 8 5 16 44 52 15 5 2 8 25 26 14 3 3 8 19 26 -8 29
16 Hansa Rostock 29 8 4 17 25 46 15 4 1 10 14 24 14 4 3 7 11 22 -21 28
17 Jahn Regensburg 28 7 6 15 28 45 14 4 6 4 14 20 14 3 0 11 14 25 -17 27
18 Sandhausen 28 6 6 16 29 54 13 3 3 7 13 27 15 3 3 9 16 27 -25 24

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The 2. Bundesliga (Zweite Bundesliga) is the second level of German professional football. Like the Bundesliga it has 18 clubs playing a total of 306 fixtures to decide the final league table. The two top teams are promoted while number three has to qualify through a playoff. Two or three teams are relegated through a similar system.