Meppen will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind Saarbrücken.
- Meppen has the fewest points from losing position (0) in 3. Liga
- Saarbrücken is in the worst form (0-4-2)
Meppen form and stats
The story so far in the 3. Liga for Meppen at their home stadium (Hänsch-Arena) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats. Meppen are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Hänsch-Arena, having lost their two previous games here.
The Meppen crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-4 to Turkgucu-Ataspor here at Hänsch-Arena in a 3. Liga match. A strong away win before that one, visiting VfB Lubeck and winning 2-0.
Meppen are traveling soon after this match as the 3. Liga match at Bayern München II awaits in three days.
The Meppen fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 8 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 14 goals have been conceded.
Saarbrücken form and stats
As the visiting team in 3. Liga matches, Saarbrücken have produced an overall stat of 3-2-2 so far.
There were no winners in Saarbrücken's previous match, a 3. Liga home game that ended 3-3 vs Ingolstadt (placed 2nd). A 1-2 loss hosting Bayern München II before that.
An inspired comeback made the scores level in Saarbrücken's duel with Ingolstadt. It looked bad at 1-3 but the team were not done and fought back to 3-3 after N. Shipnoski found the equalizer. A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Saarbrücken, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? Scoring three goals against Ingolstadt was a blast for N. Shipnoski, the draw result 3-3 not so much fun.
Saarbrücken has another fixture away, a 3. Liga game, against Magdeburg in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
The visiting Saarbrücken have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 7 games. 10 goals have been conceded by Saarbrücken in these games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  N. Shipnoski 9 goals |  S. Jacob 6 goals |  M. Mendler 4 goals |
Meppen missing players
Saarbrücken missing players
| Meppen | Saarbrücken | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 19 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 10 | 29 |
| 24 | 14 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 10 | 23 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 81% | 88% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 86% | 94% |
| 50% | 62% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 43% | 62% |
| 25% | 38% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 31% |
| 19% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 29% | 25% |
| 44% | 62% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 71% | 75% |
| 38% | 25% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 14% | 19% |
| 25% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 14% | 6% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.1 | 3.1 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8.1 | 8.5 | 5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 9.3 | 10 |
| 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.4 | 4.5 |
| 34% | 37% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 42% | 40% |
- Meppen has the fewest points from losing position (0) in 3. Liga
- Meppen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Meppen haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Saarbrücken has the most points from losing position (11) in 3. Liga
- Saarbrücken haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Saarbrücken is in the worst form (0-4-2)
| 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 | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 15 | 35 |
| 2 | Ingolstadt | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 28 |
| 3 | 1860 München | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 35 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 27 |
| 4 | Saarbrücken | 16 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 26 |
| 5 | Hansa Rostock | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 26 |
| 6 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 30 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 26 |
| 7 | Verl | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 8 | Turkgucu-Ataspor | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 24 |
| 9 | Hallescher FC | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 16 | -3 | 24 |
| 10 | Uerdingen | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | -3 | 22 |
| 11 | Viktoria Köln | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | -7 | 22 |
| 12 | Unterhaching | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 12 | -2 | 20 |
| 13 | Meppen | 16 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 19 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | -5 | 19 |
| 14 | Waldhof Mannheim | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 26 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -3 | 18 |
| 15 | Kaiserslautern | 17 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | -6 | 18 |
| 16 | Bayern München II | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | -4 | 17 |
| 17 | VfB Lubeck | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -5 | 16 |
| 18 | Zwickau | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | -4 | 15 |
| 19 | MSV Duisburg | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 11 | -9 | 15 |
| 20 | Magdeburg | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -8 | 14 |
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