Battling Magdeburg will be hoping to pull off an upset when they play top team Heidenheim in the upcoming league fixture. It’s 15th vs 4th and the home crowd will have modest confidence.
- Magdeburg have the most conceded goals (27) in 2. Bundesliga
- Heidenheim have the most clean sheets (4) away in 2. Bundesliga
Magdeburg and Heidenheim should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Magdeburg form and stats
Magdeburg's struggle is real here at MDCC-Arena with only 6 points collected from 6 2. Bundesliga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-0-4.
Magdeburg enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Hamburger SV's place. The match ended 3-2 with Rieckmann, Hankouri and Atik scoring. Manager Titz felt very clever after Rieckmann scored the winning goal against Hamburger SV, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 70th minute. The striker Atik outdid all the other footballers in that fixture and received a match rating of 9.03 out of 10. Atik scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Ahead of that match, Magdeburg lost 0-2 at home to Eintracht Braunschweig.Magdeburg have scored {5 league goals} here from 6 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Magdeburg defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. When Magdeburg hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like SpVgg Greuther Fürth, DSC Arminia Bielefeld, Sandhausen, Nürnberg and Hansa Rostock), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
Heidenheim form and stats
Playing away, Heidenheim, who have the most clean sheets (4) away in 2. Bundesliga, have won 2 games, drawn 3 and suffered 2 defeats in the 2. Bundesliga this season.
Heidenheim are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the fixture against SpVgg Greuther Fürth (placed 18th). Beste got a match rating of 8.35 in that game, top player of the team. Beste scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A loss, in the DFB Pokal away at FC Union Berlin, earlier.
It's not easy to score on Heidenheim as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Magdeburg zero wins, one draw and Heidenheim one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less. The matches between these teams sometimes lean towards being a bit wild, having seen 2 sending-offs from the last two encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Kleindienst 6 goals |   M. Kwarteng 4 goals | B. Atik 3 goals |
Magdeburg missing players
Heidenheim missing players
| Magdeburg | Heidenheim | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 7 | 20 |
| 27 | 11 | 6 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 71% | 85% |
| 77% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 43% | 69% |
| 69% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 43% | 62% |
| 38% | 17% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 31% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 54% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 54% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 57% | 38% |
| 38% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 43% | 23% |
| 4.5 | 5 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6.6 | 6.2 |
| 5.9 | 4.7 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.6 | 4 |
| 2.1 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.4 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.4 | 13.2 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13 | 11.9 | 13.3 |
| 4.2 | 4.8 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
| 30% | 17% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 30% | 36% |
| 16.6 | 12.2 | 16 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 13.7 | 12.8 |
| 6.1 | 5.7 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
- Heidenheim have the most clean sheets (4) away in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Magdeburg have the fewest points (6) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the most conceded goals (27) in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the the worst goal difference (-11) in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the the worst goal difference (-6) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg 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 | Darmstadt 98 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 28 |
| 2 | Paderborn | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 26 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 4 | Heidenheim | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 21 |
| 6 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 20 |
| 7 | Holstein Kiel | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 20 |
| 8 | Kaiserslautern | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 22 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 19 |
| 9 | Jahn Regensburg | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 18 |
| 10 | Karlsruher SC | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 17 |
| 11 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 16 |
| 12 | St. Pauli | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -1 | 14 |
| 13 | Hansa Rostock | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -9 | 14 |
| 14 | Nürnberg | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 14 |
| 15 | Magdeburg | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -11 | 13 |
| 16 | Sandhausen | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -6 | 12 |
| 17 | DSC Arminia Bielefeld | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -7 | 11 |
| 18 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 13 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 10 |
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