Saarbrücken favourites for feisty fight facing Waldhof Mannheim

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Competition: Germany 3. Liga
Competition: Sun 02.April
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Ludwigspark (8644 seats)

The home team, Saarbrücken, should be the favourites in this game, but Waldhof Mannheim have exhibited both skill and fearlessness. Read more about the match!

Insights:
  • Saarbrücken have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Waldhof Mannheim have the most points from losing position (18) in 3. Liga

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Saarbrücken form and stats

6-4-4 (win-draw-lost) are the 3. Liga numbers at home for Saarbrücken so far this season.

The Saarbrücken crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Waldhof Mannheim here at Stadion Ludwigspark. The first loss after collecting points in four league matches.

Before that, Saarbrücken played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Freiburg II.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Saarbrücken handle that role? We have found 20 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 9 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats.

Saarbrücken have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadion Ludwigspark with 26 goals in 14 league matches. 20 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Waldhof Mannheim form and stats

Waldhof Mannheim have only collected 11 points from their away games in the 3. Liga, after 3-2-9 (14 played).

Mannheim aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 182 league minutes without a goal. Bahn  was the last player to find the net.

It's the second away game in a row for Waldhof Mannheim, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Saarbrücken (placed 6th) last time out.

Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Osnabrück.

Waldhof Mannheim are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 5 matches.

Goal hungry football fans should note that 15 of this side's 19 most recent league fixtures have ended with three or more goals.

Mannheim are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 19 away goals from 14 games (in the league). For Waldhof Mannheim, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The newest logged result between these participants is the Waldhof Mannheim - Saarbrücken 1-0 played not long ago this season. Stats for the former ten meetings featuring these two contenders are: three wins for Saarbrücken, one draw and six wins for Waldhof Mannheim. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.

Top Goalscorers

Waldhof MannheimD. Martinović
D. Martinović
9 goals
SaarbrückenS. Jacob
S. Jacob
7 goals
SaarbrückenM. Cuni
M. Cuni
7 goals

Saarbrücken missing players

Waldhof Mannheim missing players

Saarbrücken Waldhof Mannheim
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 4 15 30
14 6 2 Won W 0 4 16
7 4 1 Drew D 0 2 3
9 5 1 Lost L 4 9 11
49 26 6 Scored S 2 20 47
33 21 3 Conceded C 12 34 49
90% 87% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 80% 80%
53% 67% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 73% 70%
33% 53% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 60% 43%
17% 27% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 27% 17%
43% 47% 25% BTTS BTTS 25% 60% 67%
40% 40% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 7% 13%
27% 27% 25% Failed to Score F T 75% 33% 20%
 
5.3 6.2 8 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.1 4.9
5 4.7 5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.3 4.4
1.8 1.7 1.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.2 1.8 1.8
2 2 0 Red cards R C 1 3 4
 
11.6 13.1 14.8 Shots (avg) S ( 9.2 9.6 11
5.3 5.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.8 4.5
31% 32% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 35% 35%
 
10 10.5 9 Shots against (avg) S A 13 10.3 9.3
4 3.9 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.8 4.6 3.9
Key stats in 3. Liga this season:
  • Saarbrücken have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Waldhof Mannheim have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Waldhof Mannheim have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in 3. Liga
  • Waldhof Mannheim have the fewest matches under the total-line (8) in 3. Liga
  • Waldhof Mannheim have the most matches over the total-line (21) in 3. Liga
  • Waldhof Mannheim have the most points from losing position (18) in 3. Liga
  • Waldhof Mannheim haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 29 19 6 4 66 26 15 10 3 2 38 14 14 9 3 2 28 12 40 63
2 Freiburg II 30 17 8 5 42 28 15 10 4 1 23 11 15 7 4 4 19 17 14 59
3 Wehen Wiesbaden 30 17 5 8 60 42 15 9 3 3 31 18 15 8 2 5 29 24 18 56
4 Osnabrück 29 15 6 8 57 39 14 9 2 3 29 15 15 6 4 5 28 24 18 51
5 Dynamo Dresden 29 14 8 7 52 33 15 6 5 4 29 18 14 8 3 3 23 15 19 50
6 Saarbrücken 29 14 7 8 49 32 14 6 4 4 26 20 15 8 3 4 23 12 17 49
7 Waldhof Mannheim 29 15 3 11 46 49 15 12 1 2 27 15 14 3 2 9 19 34 -3 48
8 Viktoria Koln 30 12 10 8 44 40 15 7 3 5 20 21 15 5 7 3 24 19 4 46
9 1860 München 29 11 7 11 45 42 15 7 2 6 26 20 14 4 5 5 19 22 3 40
10 Verl 30 10 9 11 46 44 15 6 6 3 26 20 15 4 3 8 20 24 2 39
11 Erzgebirge Aue 30 11 6 13 37 41 15 6 4 5 19 18 15 5 2 8 18 23 -4 39
12 MSV Duisburg 29 9 9 11 39 41 14 3 7 4 20 18 15 6 2 7 19 23 -2 36
13 Rot-Weiss Essen 30 8 12 10 36 43 15 5 7 3 18 19 15 3 5 7 18 24 -7 36
14 Ingolstadt 29 10 5 14 40 44 14 4 3 7 15 20 15 6 2 7 25 24 -4 35
15 Borussia Dortmund II 30 9 4 17 32 41 16 5 2 9 17 20 14 4 2 8 15 21 -9 31
16 Bayreuth 30 9 4 17 32 57 15 6 2 7 21 25 15 3 2 10 11 32 -25 31
17 Hallescher FC 30 6 11 13 39 50 15 4 5 6 23 22 15 2 6 7 16 28 -11 29
18 VfB Oldenburg 30 7 6 17 34 56 15 3 4 8 22 33 15 4 2 9 12 23 -22 27
19 Zwickau 30 7 6 17 30 55 14 5 2 7 15 17 16 2 4 10 15 38 -25 27
20 Meppen 30 4 12 14 32 55 15 4 3 8 21 28 15 0 9 6 11 27 -23 24

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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.