It's game two of the 3. Liga season and everything to play for. Read our full preview of MSV Duisburg-Zwickau!
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
MSV Duisburg form and stats
Duisburg faced defeat in their previous match, away at Hansa Rostock (1-3). Preceding that match was the home DFB Pokal game against Borussia Dortmund that was lost 0-5.
The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Duisburg's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played seven games, won four matches, drawn one and lost two.
Last season, MSV Duisburg's league statistics were 17 wins, 11 draws and 10 losses, resulting in a 5th position in the 3. Liga. Over these 38 matches they scored 68 goals and conceded 48. Playing at home last season MSV Duisburg managed 11-6-2 (win-draw-lost) with 37 goals and 20 conceded.
Zwickau form and stats
Zwickau had fun at their own home (Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena) last time out, beating Unterhaching 2-1. F. Drinkuth scored. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Waldhof Mannheim that ended 0-0.
Looking at the earlier recent performances of Zwickau when being an outsider away as they are today, we find seven matches with the visitors losing five times, drawing one and winning one game.
Let's have a look at how Zwickau performed last season in the 3. Liga: They landed a 16th position in the league table after playing out 11 victories, 11 draws and 16 defeats. In total they scored 56 and conceded 61 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 3 - drew 6 and lost 10 with 18/32 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): MSV Duisburg two wins, one draw and Zwickau one victory. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
![]() L. Scepanik 1 goals | ![]() F. Wolfgang Drinkuth 1 goals |
MSV Duisburg missing players
Zwickau missing players
| MSV Duisburg | Zwickau | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| MSV Duisburg | Last season | Zwickau | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 38 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Won | W | 3 | 11 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Drew | D | 6 | 11 | ||
| 10 | 2 | Lost | L | 10 | 16 | ||
| 68 | 37 | Scored | S | 18 | 56 | ||
| 48 | 20 | Conceded | C | 32 | 61 | ||
| 97% | 95% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 84% | 89% | ||
| 84% | 89% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 79% | ||
| 58% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 63% | ||
| 42% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 26% | 37% | ||
| 18% | 16% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 11% | 18% | ||
| 71% | 74% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 55% | ||
| 18% | 26% | Clean Sheets | C S | 26% | 26% | ||
| 13% | 5% | Failed to Score | F T | 37% | 29% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.4 | 2.4 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 385 | 219 | Total Shots | T S | 165 | 382 | ||
| 169 | 93 | Shots on Target | S O | 57 | 151 | ||
| 40% | 39% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 37% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | 1860 München | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Hansa Rostock | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Hallescher FC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Ingolstadt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Zwickau | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Dynamo Dresden | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Bayern München II | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Turkgucu-Ataspor | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Viktoria Köln | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Waldhof Mannheim | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Saarbrücken | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | VfB Lubeck | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Verl | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Uerdingen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Unterhaching | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 17 | Kaiserslautern | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 18 | Meppen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 19 | MSV Duisburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 20 | Magdeburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bayern München II | 38 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 76 | 60 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 28 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 34 | 32 | 16 | 65 |
| 2 | Wurzburger Kickers | 38 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 71 | 60 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 26 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 35 | 34 | 11 | 64 |
| 3 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 64 | 53 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 35 | 26 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 27 | 11 | 64 |
| 4 | Ingolstadt | 38 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 61 | 40 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 24 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 29 | 16 | 21 | 63 |
| 5 | MSV Duisburg | 38 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 68 | 48 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 37 | 20 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 31 | 28 | 20 | 62 |
| 6 | Hansa Rostock | 38 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 54 | 43 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 31 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 27 | 11 | 59 |
| 7 | Meppen | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 69 | 57 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 35 | 32 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 34 | 25 | 12 | 58 |
| 8 | 1860 München | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 63 | 54 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 35 | 22 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 32 | 9 | 58 |
| 9 | Waldhof Mannheim | 38 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 52 | 47 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 25 | 27 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 27 | 20 | 5 | 56 |
| 10 | Kaiserslautern | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 59 | 54 | 19 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 32 | 36 | 5 | 55 |
| 11 | Unterhaching | 38 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 50 | 53 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 25 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 28 | -3 | 51 |
| 12 | Viktoria Köln | 38 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 65 | 71 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 41 | -6 | 51 |
| 13 | Uerdingen | 38 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 40 | 54 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 30 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 24 | -14 | 48 |
| 14 | Magdeburg | 38 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 49 | 42 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 24 | 19 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 47 |
| 15 | Hallescher FC | 38 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 64 | 66 | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 36 | 32 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 28 | 34 | -2 | 46 |
| 16 | Zwickau | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 56 | 61 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 29 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 32 | -5 | 44 |
| 17 | Chemnitzer FC | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 54 | 60 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 26 | 39 | -6 | 44 |
| 18 | Preuen Munster | 38 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 49 | 62 | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 30 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 32 | -13 | 40 |
| 19 | Sonnenhof Groaspach | 38 | 8 | 8 | 22 | 33 | 67 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 41 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 26 | -34 | 32 |
| 20 | Carl Zeiss Jena | 38 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 40 | 85 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 33 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 24 | 52 | -45 | 23 |
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