Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Rot-Weiss Essen & Fortuna Düsseldorf face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the DFB Pokal. All the pre-match information is available here!
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.
Rot-Weiss Essen form and stats
Rot-Weiss have reached this DFB Pokal stage through battling and winning against Arminia Bielefeld.The Rot-Weiss Essen fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Stadion Essen and will expect new points from this game. Rot-Weiss Essen has played twelve games in a row here without a defeat. Rot-Weiss Essen has a nice streak going on as they have played 24 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Rodinghausen defeat 326 days ago.
Before that match, a Regionalliga: West win away at Sportfreunde Lotte.
Fortuna Düsseldorf form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Ingolstadt in order to reach 2nd Round of DFB Pokal. Fortuna Düsseldorf was sent out of DFB Pokal in the quarter-finals last season.There's been little loot from Fortuna Düsseldorf's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 7 away games in the 2. Bundesliga. Fortuna Düsseldorf only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 1 draw. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Fortuna Düsseldorf hope to make it five in this match. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Düsseldorf are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
Düsseldorf play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-0 victory visiting St. Pauli. Before that, Düsseldorf secured a home win against Osnabruck with the score 3-0.
Fortuna Düsseldorf have scored 8 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. For Düsseldorf, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last five meetings): Rot-Weiss Essen won two games, three matches ended with a draw and Fortuna Düsseldorf has zero wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / fourTop Goalscorers
  S. Engelmann 18 goals |   R. Hennings 6 goals | C. Harenbrock 5 goals |
Rot-Weiss Essen missing players
Fortuna Düsseldorf missing players
| Rot-Weiss Essen | Fortuna Düsseldorf | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 11 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 6 | 7 | ||
| 56 | 32 | Scored | S | 13 | 32 | ||
| 16 | 9 | Conceded | C | 26 | 35 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 83% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 44% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 36% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 5 | 5 | ||
| 5.6 | 5.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.3 | 10.1 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.7 | 3.3 | ||
| 71% | 94% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 38% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Holstein Kiel | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 28 |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 26 |
| 3 | Greuther Furth | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 10 | 24 |
| 4 | Bochum | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 23 |
| 5 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 23 |
| 6 | Erzgebirge Aue | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 19 |
| 7 | Nurnberg | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 19 |
| 8 | Heidenheim | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 19 |
| 9 | Osnabruck | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | -1 | 19 |
| 10 | Darmstadt 98 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 18 |
| 11 | Paderborn | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| 12 | Hannover 96 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 17 |
| 13 | Jahn Regensburg | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 14 | Karlsruher SC | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 16 |
| 15 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 17 | -16 | 12 |
| 16 | Sandhausen | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -15 | 11 |
| 17 | St. Pauli | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -9 | 8 |
| 18 | Würzburger Kickers | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 14 | -16 | 4 |
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