3. Liga match prediction: Little separates Kaiserslautern and 1860 München in quality

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Competition: Germany 3. Liga
Competition: Tue 15.December
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Fritz-Walter-Stadion (49780 seats)

The visiting 1860 München side should be favourites in this visit to Kaiserslautern, as the away team holds a 8 point advantage from their 15 league games this season.

Insights:
  • 1860 München has the most scored goals (30) in 3. Liga

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Kaiserslautern and 1860 München.

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Kaiserslautern form and stats

When playing at home in the 3. Liga, Kaiserslautern have managed 1 win, 5 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 7 games.

Kaiserslautern lost their last game at Unterhaching (placed 14th) after a 0-2 scoreline. In the match before that, Kaiserslautern hosted MSV Duisburg and drew the game 2-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Kaiserslautern perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Kaiserslautern as a small favourite), we find 14 games. Kaiserslautern has won two of these, drawn six and lost six.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Kaiserslautern as they are travelling to their away game against Uerdingen in the 3. Liga. That match is four days after this one.

Kaiserslautern aren't scoring a lot here at Fritz-Walter-Stadion in the league, with only 6 goals from 7 games. From these home matches, Kaiserslautern have conceded only 6 goals.

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1860 München form and stats

3 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of 1860 München, who have the most scored goals (30) in 3. Liga, playing as the away team in the 3. Liga this season.

Impressive finishing from S. Mölders (3) and P. Steinhart (2) secured the home win 5-0 against Waldhof Mannheim in their previous game. Prior to that match, the München manager M. Köllner faced defeat when travelling to Viktoria Koln and losing 1-2.

As mentioned above, München was the only team on the pitch versus Waldhof Mannheim in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task. It's hard not to mention S. Mölders's lethal finishing against Waldhof Mannheim. three goals were a big reason for the important victory.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with 1860 München playing away and similar expectations, we found nine relevant matches. Results were two München wins, five draws and two defeats.

A quick return to home after this game, as München are hosting Wehen Wiesbaden in the 3. Liga only three days away.

München are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 11 times in 7 away games so far. 1860 München have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Kaiserslautern-1860 München H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Kaiserslautern three wins, 1860 München three wins, four draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

1860 MünchenS. Mölders
S. Mölders
8 goals
KaiserslauternM. Pourié
M. Pourié
6 goals
1860 MünchenD. Dressel
D. Dressel
6 goals

Kaiserslautern missing players

1860 München missing players

Kaiserslautern 1860 München
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 3 Played P 3 7 15
2 1 0 Won W 3 3 6
9 5 2 Drew D 0 2 5
4 1 1 Lost L 0 2 4
14 6 1 Scored S 7 11 30
19 6 2 Conceded C 2 8 17
87% 86% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
73% 57% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 93%
33% 14% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 57% 60%
20% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 14% 33%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 20%
60% 57% 33% BTTS BTTS 67% 86% 73%
20% 29% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 14% 20%
33% 29% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 13%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.3 2 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 3.3 2.7
3 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
10.6 13.9 14 Shots (avg) S ( 12.3 9.7 11.5
4.1 4.7 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.7 3.9 4.5
23% 18% 7% Goal Efficiency G E 41% 41% 44%
Key stats in 3. Liga this season:
  • 1860 München has the most scored goals (30) in 3. Liga
  • 1860 München has the most scored goals in the second half (15) in 3. Liga
  • 1860 München has the the best goal difference (+13) in 3. Liga
  • 1860 München have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • 1860 München have scored more than double the goals of Kaiserslautern.
  • 1860 München haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • All of 1860 München's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dynamo Dresden 15 9 2 4 22 12 7 4 2 1 10 4 8 5 0 3 12 8 10 29
2 Saarbrucken 14 7 4 3 25 18 7 4 2 1 15 8 7 3 2 2 10 10 7 25
3 Verl 13 7 3 3 26 15 7 3 2 2 15 10 6 4 1 1 11 5 11 24
4 Ingolstadt 14 7 3 4 19 16 7 5 1 1 11 5 7 2 2 3 8 11 3 24
5 1860 München 15 6 5 4 30 17 8 3 3 2 19 9 7 3 2 2 11 8 13 23
6 Hansa Rostock 14 6 5 3 22 15 7 4 2 1 14 6 7 2 3 2 8 9 7 23
7 Wehen Wiesbaden 15 6 4 5 24 23 7 3 2 2 10 9 8 3 2 3 14 14 1 22
8 Viktoria Koln 15 6 4 5 20 23 7 3 1 3 8 10 8 3 3 2 12 13 -3 22
9 Hallescher FC 15 6 3 6 20 26 8 3 2 3 11 10 7 3 1 3 9 16 -6 21
10 Uerdingen 15 5 4 6 12 15 8 3 1 4 7 11 7 2 3 2 5 4 -3 19
11 Türkgücü-Ataspor 13 4 6 3 20 19 6 3 3 0 11 6 7 1 3 3 9 13 1 18
12 Waldhof Mannheim 14 4 6 4 25 25 7 3 3 1 22 14 7 1 3 3 3 11 0 18
13 VfB Lübeck 14 4 4 6 18 19 7 2 3 2 9 7 7 2 1 4 9 12 -1 16
14 Unterhaching 13 5 1 7 13 18 7 4 1 2 9 7 6 1 0 5 4 11 -5 16
15 Kaiserslautern 15 2 9 4 14 19 7 1 5 1 6 6 8 1 4 3 8 13 -5 15
16 Magdeburg 15 3 5 7 13 21 7 2 2 3 6 8 8 1 3 4 7 13 -8 14
17 MSV Duisburg 15 3 5 7 18 27 8 1 2 5 8 17 7 2 3 2 10 10 -9 14
18 Meppen 12 4 1 7 13 18 6 3 0 3 9 8 6 1 1 4 4 10 -5 13
19 Zwickau 12 3 3 6 12 15 7 1 1 5 5 9 5 2 2 1 7 6 -3 12
20 Bayern München II 12 3 3 6 16 21 5 2 2 1 8 5 7 1 1 5 8 16 -5 12

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The 3. Liga (Dritte Liga) is the third division in German football. It consists of 20 teams playing each other home and away for a total of 380 fixtures. The two top teams of the final league table are promoted and number three can promote through a playoff. The bottom three teams are relegated.