The visiting Hannover 96 side are probably front runners at Nürnberg, as the visitors own a 7 point edge from their twelve league matches this season.
- Nürnberg haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Hannover 96 have the most scored goals (12) away in 2. Bundesliga
It's no vacation for neither Nürnberg nor Hannover 96 as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Nürnberg form and stats
2-0-3 (win-draw-lost) are the 2. Bundesliga numbers at home for Nürnberg so far this season.
Nürnberg are returning here after guesting Waldhof Mannheim in a DFB Pokal match and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. At last, a league victory after three matches without one. Midfield player Geis got a match rating of 7.82 in that game, the max score being 10. Geis hit three key passes.
In the game before, an away victory in the 2. Bundesliga match versus Fortuna Dusseldorf with a 1-0 scoreline.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Nürnberg have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 14 matches with the results: Won 7, drawn 3 and lost 4.
With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Nürnberg defense is not exactly impregnable. 8 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. When Nürnberg hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Greuther Furth, Magdeburg, DSC Arminia Bielefeld, Sandhausen and Hansa Rostock), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.
Hannover 96 form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (12) away in 2. Bundesliga, are W3-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the 2. Bundesliga.
This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, a DFB Pokal home defeat versus Borussia Dortmund with 0-2 on the scoreboard. Midfield player Besuschkow was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.4/10. Besuschkow hit four key passes.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against DSC Arminia Bielefeld in the 2. Bundesliga.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Hannover 96 in our archives, and the results are: 6 wins for Hannover, 1 draw and 7 defeats.
As for defending, Hannover 96 rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 10 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head to head totals (for the previous ten meetings): Nürnberg won five games, one match ended with a tie and Hannover 96 managed four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Kallevik Nielsen 6 goals |  C. Teuchert 5 goals |   K. Duah 4 goals |
Nürnberg missing players
Hannover 96 missing players
| Nürnberg | Hannover 96 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Scored | S | 8 | 12 | 21 |
| 21 | 8 | 8 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 16 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 83% | 83% |
| 50% | 40% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 83% | 67% |
| 25% | 20% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 50% | 33% |
| 25% | 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 33% | 17% |
| 33% | 20% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 67% | 67% |
| 33% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 42% | 40% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.6 | 5.4 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
| 5.4 | 4.4 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8.3 | 5.8 | 5.2 |
| 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.1 | 17.8 | 17.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.3 | 13.3 | 12.2 |
| 4 | 4.8 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5 | 4.8 |
| 25% | 21% | 13% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 40% | 36% |
| 12.1 | 10.8 | 13.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 19 | 18.8 | 17.3 |
| 4.4 | 3.8 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 6.8 | 5.9 |
- Hannover 96 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Hannover 96 have scored at least twice as many goals away as Nürnberg have scored home.
- Hannover 96 have scored in all their matches so far.
- Hannover 96 have the most scored goals (12) away in 2. Bundesliga
- Hannover 96 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Nürnberg haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Darmstadt 98 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 27 |
| 2 | Paderborn | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 25 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 25 |
| 4 | Heidenheim | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Holstein Kiel | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 23 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 19 |
| 7 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 17 |
| 8 | Karlsruher SC | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 17 |
| 9 | Kaiserslautern | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 10 | Jahn Regensburg | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -5 | 15 |
| 11 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 15 |
| 12 | St. Pauli | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 14 |
| 13 | Hansa Rostock | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 14 |
| 14 | Nürnberg | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 13 |
| 15 | Sandhausen | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -5 | 12 |
| 16 | Greuther Furth | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 10 |
| 17 | Magdeburg | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -12 | 10 |
| 18 | DSC Arminia Bielefeld | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -9 | 8 |
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