2. Bundesliga prediction and preview: St. Pauli moderate thought to overwhelm SpVgg Greuther Fürth

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 11.March
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Millerntor-Stadion (25546 seats)

This is the game, this is 2. Bundesliga and this is St. Pauli - SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Check out our complete match guide!

Insights:
  • St. Pauli have the fewest conceded goals (6) at home in 2. Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most dropped points from leading position (21) in 2. Bundesliga

St. Pauli and SpVgg Greuther Fürth should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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St. Pauli form and stats

St. Pauli are steadily winning 2. Bundesliga games and points here at Millerntor-Stadion. 6 wins, 5 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 11 games. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Pauli has won six games in a row. The Karlsruher SC match was the last time out without a victory.

St. Pauli enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Paderborn's place. The match ended 2-1 with Daschner (2) scoring. The striker Daschner outperformed all the other players in that match and got a match rating of 8.81 out of 10. Daschner scored two goals and hit two key passes.

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Hansa Rostock.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Pauli handle that role? We have found 7 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

St. Pauli have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Millerntor-Stadion with 17 goals in 11 league matches. St. Pauli have only conceded 6 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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SpVgg Greuther Fürth form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for SpVgg Greuther Fürth so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-7 (win-draw-lose). The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Zorniger, the Greuther manager, as the last three away games were defeats.

SpVgg Greuther Fürth's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Hannover 96 that finished 1-1. Attacker Hrgota got a player rating of 7.44 in the game. "Man of the match" Hrgota scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 20 successful passes (of 25 total).

Preceding that game, the 1-3 loss visiting Kaiserslautern's place.

We have checked recent matches where SpVgg Greuther Fürth have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 6 games were 0 victories, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

Sports betting fact: Both teams have scored at least one goal in 17 of this club's last 21 league fixtures.

SpVgg Greuther Fürth have scored 12 goals on their travels this season, from 11 away games in the league. Greuther's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 21 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

SpVgg Greuther Fürth - St. Pauli 2-2 was the scoreline in these squads' previous head-to-head match, played this season. St. Pauli-SpVgg Greuther Fürth H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: St. Pauli three wins, SpVgg Greuther Fürth five wins, two draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

SpVgg Greuther FürthB. Hrgota
B. Hrgota
8 goals
PauliL. Daschner
L. Daschner
6 goals
St. PauliJ. Irvine
J. Irvine
5 goals

St. Pauli missing players

SpVgg Greuther Fürth missing players

St. Pauli SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
23 11 3 Played P 4 11 23
9 6 2 Won W 0 1 6
8 5 1 Drew D 0 3 9
6 0 0 Lost L 4 7 8
32 17 5 Scored S 4 12 29
27 6 0 Conceded C 8 21 35
91% 82% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
74% 64% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 83%
48% 36% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 73% 61%
22% 18% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 36% 35%
9% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
48% 36% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 82% 78%
35% 64% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 9% 17%
26% 18% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 9% 4%
 
5.5 5.7 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4.8 4.4 5.5
4 4 5.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.4 4.3
2.3 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.8 2.4 2.3
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
16.5 19.5 19.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12 10 13.2
4.8 5.5 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.5 4.4
29% 28% 36% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 31% 29%
 
11.7 10.5 11.3 Shots against (avg) S A 15.8 13.7 12.4
3.6 2.7 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4.7 4.2
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most dropped points from leading position (21) in 2. Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • St. Pauli have not yet lost a game at home.
  • St. Pauli have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • St. Pauli have the fewest conceded goals (6) at home in 2. Bundesliga
  • St. Pauli have the most clean sheets (7) at home in 2. Bundesliga
  • St. Pauli is in the best form (6-0-0) in 2. Bundesliga

  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 23 14 7 2 37 18 12 7 5 0 20 8 11 7 2 2 17 10 19 49
2 Hamburger SV 23 15 3 5 44 26 12 8 1 3 24 13 11 7 2 2 20 13 18 48
3 Heidenheim 23 13 7 3 45 25 12 9 3 0 32 13 11 4 4 3 13 12 20 46
4 Paderborn 23 12 3 8 47 29 12 8 0 4 32 14 11 4 3 4 15 15 18 39
5 Fortuna Düsseldorf 23 12 2 9 37 29 11 8 1 2 25 11 12 4 1 7 12 18 8 38
6 Kaiserslautern 23 10 8 5 37 30 11 5 4 2 19 16 12 5 4 3 18 14 7 38
7 St. Pauli 23 9 8 6 32 27 11 6 5 0 17 6 12 3 3 6 15 21 5 35
8 Holstein Kiel 23 8 9 6 40 38 11 4 4 3 19 15 12 4 5 3 21 23 2 33
9 Karlsruher SC 23 9 4 10 35 33 12 5 2 5 19 19 11 4 2 5 16 14 2 31
10 Hannover 96 23 8 6 9 32 31 11 5 2 4 17 15 12 3 4 5 15 16 1 30
11 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 23 6 9 8 29 35 12 5 6 1 17 14 11 1 3 7 12 21 -6 27
12 Magdeburg 23 8 3 12 31 42 11 3 2 6 10 16 12 5 1 6 21 26 -11 27
13 Nürnberg 23 7 4 12 18 35 11 5 1 5 10 12 12 2 3 7 8 23 -17 25
14 Hansa Rostock 23 7 3 13 18 31 12 3 1 8 8 16 11 4 2 5 10 15 -13 24
15 Eintracht Braunschweig 23 5 7 11 29 41 12 4 3 5 17 17 11 1 4 6 12 24 -12 22
16 DSC Arminia Bielefeld 23 6 3 14 31 38 11 4 0 7 17 18 12 2 3 7 14 20 -7 21
17 Sandhausen 23 5 5 13 24 41 11 3 3 5 13 20 12 2 2 8 11 21 -17 20
18 Jahn Regensburg 23 5 5 13 22 39 12 3 5 4 11 18 11 2 0 9 11 21 -17 20

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The 2. Bundesliga (Zweite Bundesliga) is the second level of German professional football. Like the Bundesliga it has 18 clubs playing a total of 306 fixtures to decide the final league table. The two top teams are promoted while number three has to qualify through a playoff. Two or three teams are relegated through a similar system.