Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Energie Cottbus & Paderborn face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the DFB Pokal. All the pre-match information is available here!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Energie Cottbus form and stats
Energie Cottbus participated in DFB Pokal the last season, where they reached the 1st round.The spoils were shared in Energie's previous game, also at home. Visiting Rot-Weiß Erfurt travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline.
Prior to that, an away loss at Viktoria Berlin in the Regionalliga: Nordost.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Energie Cottbus as they are travelling to their away game against Hansa Rostock II in the Regionalliga: Nordost. That match is three days after this one.
Paderborn form and stats
Paderborn's mission in DFB Pokal last season failed in the round of 16.The story so far for the visiting team on their 2. Bundesliga travels is 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
Paderborn's last game was the home draw against Osnabruck (1-1). Attacker Kruse got a player rating of 8.5 in the game. "Man of the match" Kruse served one assist, hit seven key passes and had 33 successful passes (of 37 total).
Preceding that game, the 0-5 loss visiting Greuther Furth's place.It's early days yet, but Paderborn has scored 0 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Head to head totals (for the last ten meetings): Energie won five games, zero matches ended with a tie and Paderborn managed five wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Heike 1 goals | J. Hildebrandt 1 goals |  J. Heuer 1 goals |
Energie Cottbus missing players
Paderborn missing players
| Energie Cottbus | Paderborn | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 49 | 28 | Scored | S | 24 | 48 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Conceded | C | 22 | 35 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 80% | ||
| 52% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 72% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 12% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 28% | ||
| 56% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 24% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 21% | 16% | ||
| 2.8 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.1 | 3.7 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.9 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.4 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 12.5 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4.6 | ||
| 82% | 76% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 42% | ||
| 4.5 | 3.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.4 | 11.8 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 4.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Hansa Rostock | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Holstein Kiel | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Karlsruher SC | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Magdeburg | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | St. Pauli | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Greuther Furth | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 10 | Schalke 04 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Hannover 96 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Osnabruck | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 13 | Elversberg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 14 | Nurnberg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 15 | Paderborn | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 1 |
| 16 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 17 | Hertha BSC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 18 | Kaiserslautern | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 0 |
