Paderborn will aim to operate their home advantage to give everything they have against today’s opposition. The home side are currently 5 points behind St. Pauli.
- Paderborn have scored in all their home matches so far.
- St. Pauli have the fewest conceded goals (6) in 2. Bundesliga
Paderborn and St. Pauli 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.
Paderborn form and stats
Paderborn have played 4 2. Bundesliga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-1-1 (wins-draws-losses). Paderborn has recorded two wins in a row here at Benteler-Arena, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
A strong away win for Paderborn against Eintracht Braunschweig the last match, as Obermair, Hansen and Bilbija were on target. Midfielder Muslija was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.6 (out of ten) in that game. Muslija served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times and had 24 successful passes (of 30 total).
Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Schalke 04.Goals from both teams! That has occurred in 8 league matches in a row for this club. Will it happen again?
Paderborn have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Benteler-Arena with 7 goals in 4 league matches. On the other hand, Paderborn have conceded 5 goals.
St. Pauli form and stats
Playing away, St. Pauli have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 0 defeats in the 2. Bundesliga this season. The fact that Pauli have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
Impressive finishing from Saad, Eggestein (2), Metcalfe and Amenyido secured the home win 5-1 against Nurnberg in their previous game. As mentioned above, St. Pauli was the only team on the pitch versus Nurnberg in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task. Eggestein, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.43. Eggestein scored two goals, hit four key passes and had 21 successful passes (of 24 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Hertha BSC at their stadium, the result 2-1.Will both teams score at least one goal each? This side's latest statistics suggest that, having completed 5 league matches in a row with one or more goals from each team.
St. Pauli are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 4 games (in the league). It's not easy to score on Pauli as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Paderborn wins - draws - St. Pauli wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less. The matches between these clubs have had a tendency to be hostile, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten duels.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Hartel 5 goals |   F. Muslija 4 goals |  E. Saad 3 goals |
Paderborn missing players
St. Pauli missing players
| Paderborn | St. Pauli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 18 |
| 15 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 75% | 67% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 67% |
| 78% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 56% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 25% | 33% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 33% |
| 4 | 3.8 | 1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 3.5 | 4.9 |
| 6.6 | 5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| 1.7 | 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.9 | 15 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.5 | 17.5 | 18.9 |
| 4.4 | 5.5 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.8 | 6.1 |
| 35% | 32% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 33% | 33% |
| 17.1 | 12.5 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.2 | 10.7 |
| 5.1 | 3.8 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.6 |
- All of Paderborn's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Paderborn have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Paderborn have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Paderborn haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Pauli have not yet lost a game.
- St. Pauli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- St. Pauli have the fewest conceded goals (6) in 2. Bundesliga
- St. Pauli have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in 2. Bundesliga
- St. Pauli have the the best goal difference (+12) in 2. Bundesliga
- St. Pauli have won significantly less corners away then 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 | St. Pauli | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 19 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 17 |
| 3 | Kaiserslautern | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 4 | Holstein Kiel | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 15 |
| 6 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 7 | Paderborn | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 8 | Magdeburg | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 13 |
| 9 | Hertha BSC | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 12 |
| 10 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | Elversberg | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 12 | Hansa Rostock | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -3 | 12 |
| 13 | Nurnberg | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -5 | 12 |
| 14 | Karlsruher SC | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 9 |
| 15 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 9 |
| 16 | Schalke 04 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -6 | 7 |
| 17 | Osnabrück | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | -10 | 6 |
| 18 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -9 | 5 |
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