Straining Magdeburg will be hoping to pull off a surprise win when they host top team Kaiserslautern in the upcoming league fixture. It’s 14th vs 5th and the home crowd will have low expectations.
- Magdeburg have the most conceded goals (42) in 2. Bundesliga
- Kaiserslautern have the most points from losing position (15) in 2. Bundesliga
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Magdeburg form and stats
Magdeburg's struggle is real here at MDCC-Arena with only 8 points collected from 10 2. Bundesliga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-6.
Magdeburg enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Hannover 96's place. The match ended 2-1 with Atik and Castaignos scoring. The victory against Hannover 96 came after Castaignos's winning goal. The Magdeburg manager Titz was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 60th minute. The attacking player Atik was announced as "man of the match" for Magdeburg with a rating of 8.0/10. Atik scored one goal, hit four key passes and had 41 successful passes (of 51 total).
Ahead of that match, Magdeburg lost 1-2 at home to St. Pauli.A fact related to the "Both teams to score yes/no" betting option: A review of the 10 most recent league matches reveals that 9 of them had goals from both sides.
Magdeburg aren't scoring a lot here at MDCC-Arena in the league, with only {8 goals} from 10 games. Magdeburg have conceded 16 from these games.
Kaiserslautern form and stats
5 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Kaiserslautern playing as the away team in the 2. Bundesliga this season. Kaiserslautern has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Impressive finishing from Kraus, Hercher and Boyd secured the home win 3-1 against Greuther Furth in their previous game. Rapp got a match rating of 7.72 in that game, top player of the team. Rapp hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Paderborn wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.Kaiserslautern has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 18 goals from 11 games. As opposed to that, Kaiserslautern have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Magdeburg have managed a sequence of 5 consecutive matches without losing (2-3-0) when facing Kaiserslautern.Kaiserslautern - Magdeburg 4-4 was the story when this pair of participants formerly did battle, some time ago this season.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Boyd 11 goals |   M. Kwarteng 7 goals | B. Atik 5 goals |
Magdeburg missing players
Kaiserslautern missing players
| Magdeburg | Kaiserslautern | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 22 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 29 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 18 | 37 |
| 42 | 16 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 12 | 28 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 91% | 91% |
| 82% | 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 73% | 77% |
| 68% | 50% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 55% | 59% |
| 36% | 10% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 45% | 36% |
| 23% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 9% | 14% |
| 68% | 60% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 64% | 64% |
| 5% | 10% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 18% | 18% |
| 27% | 30% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 27% | 27% |
| 4.9 | 5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.7 | 4.7 | 5.2 |
| 6 | 5.1 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| 2.4 | 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13.8 | 13.7 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.7 | 11.6 | 12.4 |
| 4.3 | 4 | 2.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 31% | 20% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 43% | 42% |
| 17.1 | 13.7 | 16.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.7 | 15.1 | 14.2 |
| 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
- Kaiserslautern have scored at least twice as many goals away as Magdeburg have scored home.
- Kaiserslautern have the most points from losing position (15) in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the fewest clean sheets (1) in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the fewest points (8) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the most conceded goals (42) in 2. Bundesliga
- Magdeburg have the the worst goal difference (-8) 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 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 37 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 9 | 20 | 49 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 41 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 45 |
| 3 | Heidenheim | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 44 | 25 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 43 |
| 4 | Paderborn | 22 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 46 | 27 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 39 |
| 5 | Kaiserslautern | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 37 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 38 |
| 6 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 22 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 36 | 29 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 35 |
| 7 | St. Pauli | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 30 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 32 |
| 8 | Holstein Kiel | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 39 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 22 | 2 | 32 |
| 9 | Hannover 96 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 31 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 29 |
| 10 | Karlsruher SC | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 33 | 33 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 28 |
| 11 | Greuther Furth | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 28 | 34 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 21 | -6 | 26 |
| 12 | Nürnberg | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 20 | -14 | 25 |
| 13 | Hansa Rostock | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -11 | 24 |
| 14 | Magdeburg | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 29 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 26 | -13 | 24 |
| 15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 26 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 24 | -12 | 21 |
| 16 | Arminia Bielefeld | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 28 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 17 | -7 | 20 |
| 17 | Jahn Regensburg | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 22 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 21 | -16 | 20 |
| 18 | Sandhausen | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 40 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 21 | -17 | 19 |
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