Straining Sandhausen hope to pull off a surprise win when they play top team Paderborn in the next league fixture. It’s 18th vs 6th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Sandhausen have the most conceded goals (54) in 2. Bundesliga
- Paderborn have the most scored goals in the second half (35) in 2. Bundesliga
Both participants have had sufficient rest since their previous game. Let's have faith in that this will be an active match!
Sandhausen form and stats
Sandhausen's struggle is real here at BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald with only 12 points collected from 13 2. Bundesliga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-3-7. With seven home 2. Bundesliga games in a row without a win, the Sandhausen fans could feel they are not getting value for their money.
Happy days for Sandhausen in their previous game, a fixture away at Magdeburg (placed 13th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. A huge relief, as that was the first league victory after going winless in nine consecutive fixtures. Đumić was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.32 out of 10. The defender Đumić scored two goals and won 1 of 8 duels.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Greuther Furth (0-2).Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Sandhausen with 27 goals conceded in these matches. When Sandhausen hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Magdeburg, Jahn Regensburg, DSC Arminia Bielefeld, Nürnberg and Hansa Rostock), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.
Paderborn form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their 2. Bundesliga travels is 4 wins, 4 draws and 6 defeats. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Paderborn have lost on their last two travels.
Impressive finishing from Muslija, Rohr and Platte secured the home win 3-0 against Hansa Rostock in their previous game. Muslija has scored at least one goal for the away team three fixtures in a row. The efficiency! Rohr, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 9.12. Rohr scored one goal, hit four key passes and won 9 of 11 duels.
A 1-2 defeat away at Darmstadt 98 before that.Paderborn are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 16 away goals from 14 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Paderborn have seen the ball go into their own net 18 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Paderborn have pulled off a sequence of 7 consecutive matches without defeat (3-4-0) when playing Sandhausen.Paderborn - Sandhausen 3-0 was the scoreline in these teams' previous head to head game, earlier this season.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Leipertz 11 goals |  M. Pieringer 8 goals | F. Platte 7 goals |
Sandhausen missing players
Paderborn missing players
| Sandhausen | Paderborn | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 14 | 28 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 16 | 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 10 |
| 29 | 13 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 16 | 54 |
| 54 | 27 | 13 | Conceded | C | 3 | 18 | 34 |
| 96% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 86% | 93% |
| 79% | 77% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 64% | 75% |
| 61% | 62% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 57% | 68% |
| 32% | 38% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 29% |
| 18% | 23% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 7% | 25% |
| 57% | 46% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 50% | 50% |
| 14% | 23% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 36% | 39% |
| 32% | 38% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 29% | 18% |
| 3.8 | 4.9 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.2 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
| 6 | 5.3 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.8 | 5.9 | 4.8 |
| 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.2 | 1.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10.1 | 11.5 | 11.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.5 | 13.5 | 16.2 |
| 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.9 | 6 |
| 32% | 30% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 29% | 32% |
| 14.7 | 13.2 | 15.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.8 | 12.9 | 12.2 |
| 5.1 | 5.2 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.9 | 4 |
- Paderborn have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (14) in 2. Bundesliga
- Paderborn have the most scored goals in the second half (35) in 2. Bundesliga
- Sandhausen have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Sandhausen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sandhausen have the most conceded goals (27) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Sandhausen have the most conceded goals (54) in 2. Bundesliga
- Sandhausen have the most conceded goals in the second half (33) in 2. Bundesliga
- Sandhausen have the the worst goal difference (-14) at home in 2. Bundesliga
- Sandhausen have the the worst goal difference (-25) in 2. Bundesliga
- Sandhausen have won significantly more corners at home than 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 | 28 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 43 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 20 | 58 |
| 2 | Heidenheim | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 56 | 31 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 37 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 25 | 54 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 28 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 54 | 35 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 53 |
| 4 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 28 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 48 | 36 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 12 | 47 |
| 5 | St. Pauli | 28 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 42 | 30 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 21 | 12 | 47 |
| 6 | Paderborn | 28 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 54 | 34 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 38 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 46 |
| 7 | Kaiserslautern | 28 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 43 | 37 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 43 |
| 8 | Holstein Kiel | 28 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 48 | 46 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 25 | 2 | 40 |
| 9 | Karlsruher SC | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 47 | 44 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 24 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 3 | 39 |
| 10 | Greuther Furth | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 39 | 41 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 26 | -2 | 36 |
| 11 | Hannover 96 | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 37 | 43 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 23 | -6 | 34 |
| 12 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 45 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 28 | -11 | 32 |
| 13 | Magdeburg | 28 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 37 | 49 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 31 | -12 | 32 |
| 14 | Nürnberg | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 41 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 27 | -17 | 30 |
| 15 | DSC Arminia Bielefeld | 28 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 43 | 49 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 26 | -6 | 29 |
| 16 | Jahn Regensburg | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 28 | 45 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 25 | -17 | 27 |
| 17 | Hansa Rostock | 28 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 23 | 46 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 22 | -23 | 25 |
| 18 | Sandhausen | 28 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 29 | 54 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 27 | -25 | 24 |
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