The visiting Fortuna Düsseldorf side should be favourites in this visit to St. Pauli, as the away team holds a 12 point advantage from their twelve league games this season.
- St. Pauli is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- Fortuna Düsseldorf has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in 2. Bundesliga
The visiting Fortuna Düsseldorf played their last game only four days ago, a 2. Bundesliga match.
St. Pauli form and stats
St. Pauli have collected 5 points from their 2. Bundesliga home games so far after 1-2-2.
The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus Erzgebirge Aue in the 2. Bundesliga last time out and are looking for a win here. A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Eintracht Braunschweig.
Late drama in the game against Erzgebirge Aue as Pauli were trailing by a goal near the finishing line until Igor Matanovic popped out and made it level in the 89th minute.
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 St. Pauli have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found twelve matches with the results: Won five, drawn four and lost three.
A decent goal production from Pauli in their home games so far, with 8 goals from 5 league matches. Pauli have conceded 10 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Fortuna Düsseldorf form and stats
There's been little loot from Fortuna Düsseldorf's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 6 away games in the 2. Bundesliga. Fortuna Düsseldorf only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 1 draw.
Düsseldorf are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the 2. Bundesliga against Osnabrück (placed 7th). Prior to that result Düsseldorf won their away game at Karlsruher SC. The scoreline was 2-1.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found five similar matches played by Düsseldorf in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Fortuna Düsseldorf, one draw and two defeats.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Düsseldorf manager U. Rösler as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Rot-Weiss Essen.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. For Düsseldorf, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Pauli victories, two draws and four Fortuna Düsseldorf wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Hennings 5 goals |   R. Zalazar Martínez 3 goals |  M. Dittgen 3 goals |
St. Pauli missing players
Fortuna Düsseldorf missing players
| St. Pauli | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 15 | 8 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 14 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 75% |
| 73% | 80% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 83% | 67% |
| 55% | 60% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 25% |
| 9% | 20% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 17% |
| 64% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 36% | 40% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 12.9 | 14.2 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6.8 | 9.5 |
| 4.5 | 5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 3.2 |
| 31% | 32% | 133% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 42% | 42% |
- All of Fortuna Düsseldorf's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in 2. Bundesliga
- Fortuna Düsseldorf have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Fortuna Düsseldorf haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Pauli have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- St. Pauli have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- St. Pauli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Pauli is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Holstein Kiel | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 25 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 23 |
| 3 | Greuther Fürth | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 21 |
| 4 | Bochum | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 20 |
| 5 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 14 | -2 | 20 |
| 6 | Heidenheim | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 19 |
| 7 | Osnabrück | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 19 |
| 8 | Karlsruher SC | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 16 |
| 9 | Nurnberg | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 16 |
| 10 | Erzgebirge Aue | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 16 |
| 11 | Hannover 96 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 16 |
| 12 | Jahn Regensburg | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 16 |
| 13 | Paderborn | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| 14 | Darmstadt 98 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| 15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 17 | -13 | 12 |
| 16 | Sandhausen | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -13 | 11 |
| 17 | St. Pauli | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -6 | 8 |
| 18 | Wurzburger Kickers | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -14 | 4 |
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