Hertha BSC know they are going on a rough excursion to Schalke 04 and their Veltins-Arena. This preview has all the data you need ahead of the game.
- All of Schalke 04's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Hertha BSC have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
This should be an appealing game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well revitalized since they last played a game. Let's get started!
Schalke 04 form and stats
Schalke 04 have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the 2. Bundesliga. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
Schalke 04 faced defeat in their previous match, away at Paderborn (1-3). Defender Kalas got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.1/10. Kalas won 10 of 15 duels.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting St. Pauli (1-3).The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Schalke have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 5 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 0 and lost 1.
Goals decide football matches and Schalke 04 are scoring many of them at home; 7 on target from 3 league matches. Schalke 04 have conceded 5 from these games.
Hertha BSC form and stats
1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Hertha BSC playing as the away team in the 2. Bundesliga this season.
Hertha BSC might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. St. Pauli proved too strong as Hertha BSC slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Olympiastadion Berlin. Midfielder Bouchalakis was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.64. Bouchalakis served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 42 successful passes (of 49 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Holstein Kiel at their stadium, the result 3-2.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Hertha in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Hertha BSC, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
Possible goal fest! This team have played 6 consecutive league fixtures all having three or more goals (over 2.5 goals).
Hertha BSC has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 7 goals from 4 games.
Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the previous ten meetings): Schalke 04 won four games, two matches ended with a tie and Hertha BSC have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three.
Top Goalscorers
  H. Tabakovic 7 goals |   S. Polter 3 goals |  T. Ouwejan 2 goals |
Schalke 04 missing players
Hertha BSC missing players
| Schalke 04 | Hertha BSC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 13 | 7 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 16 |
| 18 | 5 | 3 | Conceded | C | 0 | 12 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 62% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 75% | 75% |
| 50% | 33% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 25% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 62% | 33% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 12% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 38% |
| 5.8 | 6.7 | 9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| 5.2 | 6 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.2 | 5.1 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13.9 | 16.3 | 20 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 11.8 | 13.2 |
| 5.1 | 7.3 | 10 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.5 | 5.1 |
| 32% | 32% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 39% | 39% |
| 16.8 | 11.7 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 19 | 18.4 |
| 6.8 | 5 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 6.5 | 5.8 |
- All of Schalke 04's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Hertha BSC have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Hertha BSC haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Schalke 04 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 16 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 16 |
| 3 | Hannover 96 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 15 |
| 4 | Holstein Kiel | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 15 |
| 5 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 6 | Kaiserslautern | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Magdeburg | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 12 |
| 8 | Nurnberg | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 9 | Hansa Rostock | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 12 |
| 10 | Paderborn | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 11 | Elversberg | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -3 | 11 |
| 12 | Hertha BSC | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 9 |
| 13 | Greuther Furth | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -2 | 9 |
| 14 | Karlsruher SC | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 8 |
| 15 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 8 |
| 16 | Schalke 04 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -5 | 7 |
| 17 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -7 | 5 |
| 18 | Osnabruck | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | -10 | 5 |
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