Only the second game in the 2. Bundesliga for these teams and it's all to play for here at BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald as Sandhausen welcomes St. Pauli. Check out this preview!
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Sandhausen form and stats
The hosts won their first 2. Bundesliga game here at BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Sandhausen last season were 5 wins, 8 draws and 4 losses from 17 games.
A nice win for Sandhausen last time playing, versus Darmstadt 98. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-2 with Daniel Keita-Ruel (3) scoring for the victors. In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting SV Steinbach.
Martin Fraisl loved the game against Darmstadt 98. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 3-2 victory. What a game it was for Daniel Keita-Ruel when beating Darmstadt 98, applying the finishing touch to three goals!
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 Sandhausen have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found nine games) they have won one time, drawn three and lost five.
At BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald, Sandhausen has the goal stats of 3-2 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Last season, Sandhausen's league statistics were 10 wins, 13 draws and 11 losses, resulting in a 10th position in the 2. Bundesliga. Over these 34 matches they scored 43 goals and conceded 45. Playing at home last season Sandhausen managed 5-8-4 (win-draw-lost) with 20 goals and 19 conceded.
St. Pauli form and stats
One match played away so far in the 2. Bundesliga for St. Pauli and it was a tie. Last season the statistics for their away games were 1 win, 6 draws and 10 losses from 17 games.
Pauli are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Bochum (placed 11th). A 2-4 defeat away at Elversberg before that.
St. Pauli's last match (vs Bochum) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 0-2. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw after 90 minutes thanks to a 86th minute equalizer by Daniel-Kofi Kyereh.
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 two wins, three draws and nine defeats. From a total of 14 matches.
2 goals so far away for St. Pauli, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.
Let's have a look at how St. Pauli performed last season in the 2. Bundesliga: They landed a 14th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 12 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 41 and conceded 50 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 6 and lost 10 with 17/36 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Sandhausen victories, four draws and three St. Pauli wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Sandhausen missing players
St. Pauli missing players
| Sandhausen | St. Pauli | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 13 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 67% | 67% |
| Sandhausen | Last season | St. Pauli | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 34 | 17 | Played | P | 17 | 34 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Won | W | 1 | 9 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Drew | D | 6 | 12 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Lost | L | 10 | 13 | ||
| 43 | 20 | Scored | S | 17 | 41 | ||
| 45 | 19 | Conceded | C | 36 | 50 | ||
| 91% | 82% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 94% | ||
| 68% | 59% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 88% | 79% | ||
| 38% | 41% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 47% | ||
| 32% | 35% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 35% | 29% | ||
| 15% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 12% | 6% | ||
| 56% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 59% | 56% | ||
| 18% | 24% | Clean Sheets | C S | 6% | 21% | ||
| 35% | 41% | Failed to Score | F T | 35% | 29% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 537 | 277 | Total Shots | T S | 170 | 403 | ||
| 155 | 76 | Shots on Target | S O | 56 | 136 | ||
| 28% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 30% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Erzgebirge Aue | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | Osnabrück | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Holstein Kiel | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Heidenheim | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Sandhausen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Hamburger SV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Greuther Furth | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Jahn Regensburg | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Bochum | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | St. Pauli | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Nurnberg | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Darmstadt 98 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 16 | Paderborn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 17 | Karlsruher SC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 18 | Wurzburger Kickers | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Arminia Bielefeld | 34 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 65 | 30 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 32 | 12 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 33 | 18 | 35 | 68 |
| 2 | Stuttgart | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 62 | 41 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 21 | 58 |
| 3 | Heidenheim | 34 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 45 | 36 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 9 | 55 |
| 4 | Hamburger SV | 34 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 62 | 46 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 27 | 26 | 16 | 54 |
| 5 | Darmstadt 98 | 34 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 48 | 43 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 29 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 25 | 5 | 52 |
| 6 | Hannover 96 | 34 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 54 | 49 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 27 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 27 | 28 | 5 | 48 |
| 7 | Erzgebirge Aue | 34 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 46 | 48 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 30 | -2 | 47 |
| 8 | Bochum | 34 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 53 | 51 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 37 | 30 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 2 | 46 |
| 9 | Greuther Furth | 34 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 46 | 45 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 23 | 22 | 1 | 44 |
| 10 | Sandhausen | 34 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 43 | 45 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 26 | -2 | 43 |
| 11 | Holstein Kiel | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 53 | 56 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 30 | 32 | -3 | 43 |
| 12 | Jahn Regensburg | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 50 | 56 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 29 | 24 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 32 | -6 | 43 |
| 13 | Osnabrück | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 46 | 48 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 25 | 17 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 23 | -2 | 40 |
| 14 | St. Pauli | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 41 | 50 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 36 | -9 | 39 |
| 15 | Karlsruher SC | 34 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 45 | 56 | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 29 | -11 | 37 |
| 16 | Nurnberg | 34 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 45 | 58 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 31 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 30 | 27 | -13 | 37 |
| 17 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 45 | 65 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 38 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 27 | -20 | 34 |
| 18 | Dynamo Dresden | 34 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 32 | 58 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 34 | -26 | 32 |
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