2. Bundesliga: Paderborn welcome St. Pauli in what could be an appealing football fixture. Tipsway gives you a full preview!
- Paderborn have the most scored goals (46) in 2. Bundesliga
- Paderborn have scored at least twice as many goals at home as St. Pauli have scored away.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Paderborn form and stats
Paderborn are steadily winning 2. Bundesliga games and points here at Benteler-Arena. 8 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats is the summary from 11 games. Paderborn has recorded two wins in a row here at Benteler-Arena, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
Paderborn travelled for their previous game, a trip to Holstein Kiel that ended 1-1. The forward Rohr was declared "man of the match" for Paderborn with the rating of 7.45/10. Rohr scored one goal and hit two key passes.
Ahead of that match, Paderborn won a home game hosting Kaiserslautern (1-0).The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Paderborn have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 9 games) they have won 3 times, drawn 4 and lost 2.
Paderborn are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Benteler-Arena in their league games, having scored an impressive 31 goals in 11 matches. Paderborn have conceded 12 in these home matches.
St. Pauli form and stats
St. Pauli have only collected 9 points from their away games in the 2. Bundesliga, after 2-3-6 (11 played). Impressively, the visitors are on a five-match winning run which they hope continue versus Paderborn.
Impressive finishing from Irvine secured the home win 1-0 against Hansa Rostock in their previous game. Irvine got a match rating of 8.1 in that game, top player of the team. Irvine scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Magdeburg at their stadium, the result 2-1.St. Pauli are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 2 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.
Lacking goals? 8 of this side's latest 10 league rounds have seen two goals or less.
Pauli find the net regularly in their away games. 13 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As for defending, St. Pauli rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 20 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Paderborn have avoided a loss in the last 5 fixtures (3-2-0) versus St. Pauli.The duelists have fought before this season: St. Pauli - Paderborn 2-2. The matches between these sides have sometimes been a bit rough, having seen 6 red cards from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Leipertz 11 goals |  M. Pieringer 8 goals | F. Platte 6 goals |
Paderborn missing players
St. Pauli missing players
| Paderborn | St. Pauli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| 12 | 8 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 6 |
| 46 | 31 | 16 | Scored | S | 1 | 13 | 30 |
| 27 | 12 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 20 | 26 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 91% |
| 77% | 82% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 82% | 73% |
| 68% | 73% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 55% | 45% |
| 32% | 45% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 27% | 23% |
| 27% | 45% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 9% |
| 50% | 45% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 55% | 45% |
| 41% | 45% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 9% | 36% |
| 14% | 9% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 36% | 27% |
| 4.6 | 5.3 | 2.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 5.6 | 5.7 |
| 4.9 | 3.9 | 6.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 1.8 | 1.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 16.2 | 18.9 | 21.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.5 | 14.1 | 16.8 |
| 6.3 | 8.5 | 10.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.9 | 4.7 |
| 33% | 33% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 10% | 30% | 29% |
| 12.6 | 12 | 12.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 12.2 | 11.4 |
| 4 | 4.1 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.3 | 3.5 |
- Paderborn have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Paderborn have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Paderborn have scored at least twice as many goals at home as St. Pauli have scored away.
- Paderborn have the most scored goals (46) in 2. Bundesliga
- Paderborn have the most scored goals in the second half (29) in 2. Bundesliga
- Paderborn have the the best goal difference (+19) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Paderborn haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- St. Pauli have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- St. Pauli haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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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