2. Bundesliga preview: Can Osnabrück edge out victory against Würzburger Kickers?

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 09.January
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Comunale Mirco Aghetoni (16667 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Osnabrück are in the 8th position while the guesting Würzburger Kickers worry at 18th.

Insights:
  • Osnabrück has the fewest scored goals (7) at home in 2. Bundesliga
  • Würzburger Kickers has the most conceded goals (33) in 2. Bundesliga

The visiting Würzburger Kickers played their last game only three days ago, a 2. Bundesliga match.

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Osnabrück form and stats

The story so far in the 2. Bundesliga for Osnabrück, who have the fewest scored goals (7) at home in 2. Bundesliga, at their home stadium (Stadio Comunale Mirco Aghetoni) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. Game days at Stadio Comunale Mirco Aghetoni have recently become somewhat of a nightmare for Osnabrück as they have lost three home games in a row. It hurts.

Osnabrück enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Holstein Kiel's place. The match ended 2-1 with Niklas Schmidt and Sebastian Kerk scoring. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Köln (0-1).

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Osnabrück matches with similar probabilities have ended with three wins, zero draws and zero defeats (from three games).

The Osnabrück fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 6 matches. Osnabrück have conceded 10 from these games.

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Würzburger Kickers form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Würzburger Kickers, who have the most conceded goals (33) in 2. Bundesliga, so far with only 0 points returning home. The records show 0-0-6 (win-draw-lose). Würzburger Kickers have been very modest guests so far, leaving with zero points in all their 6 away matches played so far in the 2. Bundesliga. Bitter travels for Würzburger as they have lost seven games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Uerdingen match.

Würzburger played 1-1 against St. Pauli in their previous match. A 2-4 loss hosting Karlsruher SC before that.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Würzburger playing away, we found two games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and two home wins.

The visitors have scored 4 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. For Würzburger Kickers, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last six meetings): Osnabrück won three games, two matches ended with a draw and Würzburger Kickers has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / four

Top Goalscorers

OsnabrückS. Kerk
S. Kerk
6 goals
OsnabrückC. Santos Kwasniewski
C. Santos Kwasniewski
3 goals
OsnabrückE. Amenyido
E. Amenyido
2 goals

Osnabrück missing players

Würzburger Kickers missing players

Osnabrück Würzburger Kickers
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 6 2 Played P 3 6 14
6 2 1 Won W 0 0 1
4 1 0 Drew D 0 0 2
4 3 1 Lost L 3 6 11
18 7 2 Scored S 2 4 15
18 10 2 Conceded C 8 14 33
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
79% 83% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 93%
50% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 71%
14% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 43%
14% 17% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 17% 29%
64% 83% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 71%
21% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
21% 17% 50% Failed to Score F T 33% 33% 29%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 2.5 2.4
2 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
11.6 13.2 12.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.7 9.8 11
4.2 4.8 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.2 3.6
31% 24% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 21% 30%
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • Osnabrück has the fewest scored goals (7) at home in 2. Bundesliga
  • Osnabrück have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Osnabrück have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Osnabrück haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Würzburger Kickers has the fewest points (0) away in 2. Bundesliga
  • Würzburger Kickers has the most conceded goals (33) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Würzburger Kickers has the most conceded goals in the second half (22) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Würzburger Kickers have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Würzburger Kickers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Würzburger Kickers have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Würzburger Kickers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Würzburger Kickers is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  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 14 9 2 3 30 18 8 5 1 2 18 9 6 4 1 1 12 9 12 29
2 Holstein Kiel 14 8 4 2 23 13 8 4 2 2 12 10 6 4 2 0 11 3 10 28
3 Greuther Furth 14 8 3 3 27 16 7 3 1 3 10 10 7 5 2 0 17 6 11 27
4 Bochum 14 8 2 4 26 15 8 5 2 1 17 5 6 3 0 3 9 10 11 26
5 Fortuna Dusseldorf 14 8 2 4 21 19 7 6 1 0 13 5 7 2 1 4 8 14 2 26
6 Erzgebirge Aue 14 6 4 4 23 16 7 4 2 1 14 7 7 2 2 3 9 9 7 22
7 Heidenheim 14 6 4 4 19 16 8 5 3 0 13 4 6 1 1 4 6 12 3 22
8 Osnabrück 14 6 4 4 18 18 6 2 1 3 7 10 8 4 3 1 11 8 0 22
9 Hannover 96 14 6 2 6 19 14 7 5 1 1 15 4 7 1 1 5 4 10 5 20
10 Karlsruher SC 14 6 1 7 23 21 6 2 0 4 9 9 8 4 1 3 14 12 2 19
11 Nurnberg 14 5 4 5 21 19 7 3 2 2 10 9 7 2 2 3 11 10 2 19
12 Darmstadt 98 14 5 3 6 26 25 6 2 2 2 9 8 8 3 1 4 17 17 1 18
13 Paderborn 14 5 3 6 18 17 6 3 1 2 11 9 8 2 2 4 7 8 1 18
14 Jahn Regensburg 14 4 5 5 18 20 7 3 2 2 11 9 7 1 3 3 7 11 -2 17
15 Eintracht Braunschweig 14 3 3 8 14 32 7 3 1 3 8 12 7 0 2 5 6 20 -18 12
16 Sandhausen 14 3 2 9 12 31 7 2 2 3 8 14 7 1 0 6 4 17 -19 11
17 St. Pauli 14 1 6 7 17 27 6 1 2 3 8 13 8 0 4 4 9 14 -10 9
18 Würzburger Kickers 14 1 2 11 15 33 8 1 2 5 11 19 6 0 0 6 4 14 -18 5

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