National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Kickers Offenbach or Fortuna Düsseldorf that keep their silverware dream alive.
Both contenders have had ample time to rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's aim for an enthusiastic fixture!
Kickers Offenbach form and stats
40 points is a decent return from 18 Regionalliga: Südwest games here at Sparda-Bank-Hessen-Stadion for Kickers Offenbach. The data says 13 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses.
Kickers Offenbach are returning here after visiting SV Steinbach in a Reg. Cup Hessen match and winning with a 1-0 scoreline.
A decent goal production from Offenbach in their home games so far, with 33 goals from 18 league matches. Kickers Offenbach have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 8 goals.
Fortuna Düsseldorf form and stats
They also participated in DFB Pokal last season. This ended in the 2nd round.1-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Fortuna Düsseldorf in their 2. Bundesliga matches away.
Kownacki and Hennings scored in Düsseldorf's previous match, the home game against Paderborn that ended 2-1. The attacker Hennings got a match rating of 7.64 in that game. Hennings scored one goal and had 18 successful passes (of 22 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Magdeburg at their stadium, the result 2-1.2 goals so far away for Fortuna Düsseldorf, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Kickers Offenbach-Fortuna Düsseldorf H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Kickers Offenbach one win, Fortuna Düsseldorf three wins, zero draws. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  R. Hennings 2 goals |  F. Klaus 1 goals |  D. Kownacki 1 goals |
Kickers Offenbach missing players
Fortuna Düsseldorf missing players
| Kickers Offenbach | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 48 | 20 | Scored | S | 14 | 41 | ||
| 16 | 5 | Conceded | C | 11 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 92% | ||
| 76% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 36% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 28% | 9% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 52% | ||
| 56% | 64% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Failed to Score | F T | 45% | 28% | ||
| 6.1 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.6 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.8 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13.1 | 15.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.4 | 12.7 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 4 | ||
| 36% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 36% | ||
| 7.5 | 7.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 10.1 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 3.6 | ||
| 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 | 36 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 79 | 29 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 46 | 12 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 33 | 17 | 50 | 80 |
| 2 | Ulm | 36 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 60 | 30 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 16 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 29 | 14 | 30 | 77 |
| 3 | Kickers Offenbach | 36 | 24 | 4 | 8 | 67 | 26 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 33 | 8 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 34 | 18 | 41 | 76 |
| 4 | SV Steinbach | 36 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 62 | 35 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 18 | 27 | 70 |
| 5 | Mainz 05 II | 36 | 22 | 3 | 11 | 63 | 42 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 40 | 22 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 21 | 69 |
| 6 | Homburg | 36 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 43 | 48 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 20 | 30 | -5 | 52 |
| 7 | Hessen Kassel | 36 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 46 | 37 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 26 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 51 |
| 8 | Balingen | 36 | 13 | 7 | 16 | 46 | 64 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 34 | -18 | 46 |
| 9 | Bahlinger SC | 36 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 35 | 44 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 24 | -9 | 45 |
| 10 | Astoria Walldorf | 36 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 49 | 61 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 35 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 27 | 26 | -12 | 44 |
| 11 | Stuttgart II | 36 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 49 | 52 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 26 | -3 | 43 |
| 12 | Aalen | 36 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 49 | 60 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 29 | 30 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 30 | -11 | 43 |
| 13 | Hoffenheim II | 36 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 45 | 50 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 23 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 26 | 27 | -5 | 41 |
| 14 | TuS RW Koblenz | 36 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 36 | 44 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 22 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 22 | -8 | 39 |
| 15 | FSV Frankfurt | 36 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 40 | 53 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 28 | -13 | 39 |
| 16 | Sonnenhof Groaspach | 36 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 42 | 64 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 25 | 32 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 17 | 32 | -22 | 39 |
| 17 | Schott Mainz | 36 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 36 | 58 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 36 | -22 | 33 |
| 18 | Pirmasens | 36 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 32 | 59 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 26 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 20 | 33 | -27 | 33 |
| 19 | Teutonia WS | 36 | 7 | 8 | 21 | 28 | 51 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 25 | -23 | 29 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Jahn Regensburg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Heidenheim | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | St. Pauli | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Kaiserslautern | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Paderborn | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 7 | Nurnberg | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Hamburger SV | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Magdeburg | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Sandhausen | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 11 | Hansa Rostock | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Darmstadt 98 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 13 | Holstein Kiel | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Hannover 96 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 15 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 16 | Arminia Bielefeld | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
| 17 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 0 |
| 18 | Karlsruher SC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -6 | 0 |
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