Match week two of the 3. Liga campaign and the squads have done their adjustments after the first game. Here's the ultimate Rot-Weiss Essen - Erzgebirge Aue guide:
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Rot-Weiss Essen form and stats
The season before, Rot-Weiss Essen's league stats were 9 wins, 15 draws and 14 losses, results that produced 15th place in the 3. Liga. From these 38 matches they scored {43 goals} and gave away 56. Playing as the host team in the previous season Rot-Weiss Essen managed 5-10-4 (win-draw-lost) with {22 goals} and 26 conceded.
Rot-Weiss Essen's previous match was also a home event, the defeat 3-4 against Hamburger SV (in DFB Pokal). Müsel (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.85/10. Müsel scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 23 successful passes (of 28 total).
Heartbreak before that as Rot-Weiss Essen lost 1-2 at Hallescher FC's place.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Rot-Weiss Essen 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 1 win, 4 draws and 2 defeats.
The manager Dabrowski will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Viktoria Koln in only three days.
Erzgebirge Aue form and stats
Let's have a look at how Erzgebirge Aue performed last season in the 3. Liga: They landed a 14th position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 9 draws and 17 defeats. In total they scored 49 and conceded {62 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 6 - drew 3 and lost 10 with 24/34 goals scored/conceded.
Impressive finishing from Thiel secured the home win 1-0 against Ingolstadt in their previous game. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Dochev when Thiel scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 89th minute.
A 3-3 draw at Bayreuth's stadium before that.Erzgebirge are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
After this away game Erzgebirge Aue return home for a 3. Liga game against Sandhausen. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Head 2 Head
As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two Rot-Weiss Essen victories, one draw and two Erzgebirge Aue wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  I. Young 1 goals |   M. Thiel 1 goals |
Rot-Weiss Essen missing players
Erzgebirge Aue missing players
| Rot-Weiss Essen | Erzgebirge Aue | ||||||
| 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 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 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% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Rot-Weiss Essen | Last season | Erzgebirge Aue | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 37 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 38 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 12 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Drew | D | 3 | 9 | ||
| 14 | 4 | Lost | L | 10 | 17 | ||
| 41 | 22 | Scored | S | 24 | 49 | ||
| 56 | 26 | Conceded | C | 34 | 62 | ||
| 92% | 84% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 95% | 95% | ||
| 81% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 74% | 76% | ||
| 46% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 63% | 58% | ||
| 24% | 32% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 37% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 11% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 18% | ||
| 57% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 58% | ||
| 22% | 37% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 21% | ||
| 30% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 26% | 26% | ||
| 3.7 | 3.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 5.2 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.5 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 10.4 | 10.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.6 | 10.9 | ||
| 4.2 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 27% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 28% | ||
| 10.2 | 9.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 11.4 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.5 | ||
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Viktoria Koln | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | Unterhaching | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Sandhausen | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Ingolstadt | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | Arminia Bielefeld | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Dynamo Dresden | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Erzgebirge Aue | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hallescher FC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 3 |
| 10 | VfB Lubeck | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Jahn Regensburg | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Freiburg II | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Borussia Dortmund II | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Ulm | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 15 | Saarbrucken | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 16 | Waldhof Mannheim | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 17 | MSV Duisburg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 18 | Preuen Munster | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 1 |
| 19 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 20 | Verl | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -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 | Elversberg | 38 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 80 | 40 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 47 | 20 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 20 | 40 | 74 |
| 2 | Freiburg II | 38 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 54 | 34 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 73 |
| 3 | Osnabruck | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 70 | 49 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 38 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 21 | 70 |
| 4 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 38 | 21 | 7 | 10 | 71 | 51 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 21 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 34 | 30 | 20 | 70 |
| 5 | Saarbrucken | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 64 | 39 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 17 | 25 | 69 |
| 6 | Dynamo Dresden | 38 | 20 | 9 | 9 | 65 | 44 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 38 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 21 | 69 |
| 7 | Waldhof Mannheim | 38 | 19 | 3 | 16 | 63 | 65 | 19 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 21 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 26 | 44 | -2 | 60 |
| 8 | 1860 München | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 61 | 52 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 35 | 21 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 26 | 31 | 9 | 57 |
| 9 | Viktoria Koln | 38 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 58 | 53 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 27 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 32 | 26 | 5 | 55 |
| 10 | Verl | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 60 | 58 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 33 | 25 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 33 | 2 | 49 |
| 11 | Ingolstadt | 38 | 14 | 5 | 19 | 54 | 56 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 22 | 28 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 32 | 28 | -2 | 47 |
| 12 | MSV Duisburg | 38 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 54 | 58 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 28 | 28 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 26 | 30 | -4 | 46 |
| 13 | Borussia Dortmund II | 38 | 13 | 6 | 19 | 47 | 49 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 26 | 29 | -2 | 45 |
| 14 | Erzgebirge Aue | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 49 | 62 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 25 | 28 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 24 | 34 | -13 | 45 |
| 15 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 43 | 56 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 21 | 30 | -13 | 42 |
| 16 | Hallescher FC | 38 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 49 | 60 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 25 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 35 | -11 | 41 |
| 17 | Meppen | 38 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 43 | 65 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 32 | 19 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 33 | -22 | 37 |
| 18 | VfB Oldenburg | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 42 | 64 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 38 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 26 | -22 | 35 |
| 19 | Zwickau | 38 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 42 | 72 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 47 | -30 | 35 |
| 20 | Bayreuth | 38 | 9 | 5 | 24 | 39 | 81 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 25 | 37 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 44 | -42 | 32 |
