St. Pauli vs Darmstadt 98 betting preview: Even match expected

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 20.February
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Millerntor-Stadion (25546 seats)

Season ticket holders at Millerntor-Stadion haven’t seen too many victories this season, with St. Pauli languishing in the 13th position so far. The guesting Darmstadt 98 will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Insights:
  • St. Pauli is in the best form (5-0-1)
  • Darmstadt 98 has the most matches over the total-line (15) in 2. Bundesliga

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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St. Pauli form and stats

The story so far in the 2. Bundesliga for St. Pauli at their home stadium (Millerntor-Stadion) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

Pauli enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Nurnberg's place. The match ended 2-1 with Omar Marmoush and Guido Burgstaller scoring. Before that, Pauli had a home game versus Sandhausen which ended with a victory 2-1.

This is expected to be a close game, with Pauli perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with St. Pauli as a small favourite), we find 13 games. St. Pauli has won six of these, drawn four and lost three.

St. Pauli have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Millerntor-Stadion with 15 goals in 10 league matches. Pauli have conceded 18 from these games.

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Darmstadt 98 form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L5 on the road this term. That's in the 2. Bundesliga.

Darmstadt had fun at their own home (Millerntor-Stadion) last time out, beating Osnabrück 1-0. Mathias Honsak scored. A loss against Nurnberg was the result prior to that, in a home game.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Darmstadt 98 in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Darmstadt 98, three draws and eight defeats.

Darmstadt 98 has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 18 goals from 10 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Darmstadt 98 manager M. Anfang has some worries about the defense as 21 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Darmstadt 98 - Pauli 2-2. Head-to-head totals (for the last nine meetings): St. Pauli won one game, one match ended with a draw and Darmstadt 98 has seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / five

Top Goalscorers

Darmstadt 98S. Dursun
S. Dursun
9 goals
Darmstadt 98T. Kempe
T. Kempe
8 goals
PauliD. Kyereh
D. Kyereh
6 goals

St. Pauli missing players

Darmstadt 98 missing players

St. Pauli Darmstadt 98
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 4 Played P 3 10 21
6 3 2 Won W 1 3 7
7 3 1 Drew D 1 2 4
8 4 1 Lost L 1 5 10
33 15 8 Scored S 6 18 32
38 18 7 Conceded C 6 21 36
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
90% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 90%
71% 70% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 80% 71%
43% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 50% 38%
19% 20% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 40% 19%
71% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 70% 57%
5% 10% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 24%
24% 30% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 24%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 1.7 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.7 1.9
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
12.5 13.2 10.8 Shots (avg) S ( 15.3 13.5 13.1
4.4 4.4 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.7 5.8 5.3
36% 34% 53% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 31% 29%
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • All of Darmstadt 98's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Darmstadt 98 has the most matches over the total-line (15) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Darmstadt 98 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Darmstadt 98 haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • St. Pauli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Pauli is in the best form (5-0-1)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hamburger SV 21 12 6 3 46 25 11 7 2 2 26 10 10 5 4 1 20 15 21 42
2 Bochum 21 13 3 5 40 22 11 7 2 2 23 8 10 6 1 3 17 14 18 42
3 Holstein Kiel 21 12 6 3 35 19 11 6 2 3 18 14 10 6 4 0 17 5 16 42
4 Greuther Furth 21 11 6 4 41 24 10 5 2 3 18 12 11 6 4 1 23 12 17 39
5 Karlsruher SC 21 11 3 7 36 29 10 4 2 4 14 12 11 7 1 3 22 17 7 36
6 Hannover 96 21 10 3 8 31 22 10 6 2 2 18 7 11 4 1 6 13 15 9 33
7 Fortuna Dusseldorf 21 9 6 6 29 27 10 6 3 1 16 10 11 3 3 5 13 17 2 33
8 Heidenheim 20 8 5 7 28 26 11 7 3 1 21 8 9 1 2 6 7 18 2 29
9 Erzgebirge Aue 21 8 5 8 30 30 10 5 3 2 19 14 11 3 2 6 11 16 0 29
10 Paderborn 20 7 6 7 24 23 9 5 2 2 15 11 11 2 4 5 9 12 1 27
11 Jahn Regensburg 21 6 8 7 24 27 11 4 4 3 16 14 10 2 4 4 8 13 -3 26
12 Darmstadt 98 21 7 4 10 32 36 11 4 2 5 14 15 10 3 2 5 18 21 -4 25
13 St. Pauli 21 6 7 8 33 38 10 3 3 4 15 18 11 3 4 4 18 20 -5 25
14 Nurnberg 21 6 5 10 28 34 11 3 3 5 14 18 10 3 2 5 14 16 -6 23
15 Osnabrück 21 6 4 11 21 32 10 2 1 7 10 17 11 4 3 4 11 15 -11 22
16 Sandhausen 21 5 3 13 24 42 11 4 3 4 17 18 10 1 0 9 7 24 -18 18
17 Eintracht Braunschweig 21 4 5 12 19 43 11 4 2 5 12 18 10 0 3 7 7 25 -24 17
18 Wurzburger Kickers 21 3 3 15 22 44 10 2 3 5 13 20 11 1 0 10 9 24 -22 12

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