National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sportfreunde Lotte or Karlsruher SC that keep their silverware dream alive.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Sportfreunde Lotte form and stats
In general it's been a long time since Sportfreunde tasted defeat here at Sportpark am Lotter Kreuz, as they have taken at least one point from their last ten home games in the league.
The home supporters saw a 2-2 draw versus Wiedenbruck in the Regionalliga: West last time out and are looking for a win here.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Regionalliga: West home game that ended 2-2 versus Wiedenbruck.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Sportfreunde Lotte had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Sportfreunde lost one similar game by at least two goals.
Karlsruher SC form and stats
They also participated in DFB Pokal last season. This ended in the 1st round.The visitors are W1-D0-L0 on the road this term. That's in the 2. Bundesliga. The fact that Karlsruher have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
Karlsruher had fun at their own home (Sportpark am Lotter Kreuz) last time out, beating Darmstadt 98 3-0. Philipp Hofmann (2) and Kyoung-Rok Choi scored. Attacker Philipp Hofmann got a player rating of 8.61 in the game. "Man of the match" Hofmann scored two goals, hit the woodwork once and dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that game was the away 2. Bundesliga victory against Hansa Rostock with the score of 3-1.Karlsruher SC have the goal stats of 3-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last four meetings): Sportfreunde Lotte won one game, two matches ended with a draw and Karlsruher SC has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / threeTop Goalscorers
  P. Hofmann 3 goals |  S. Jung 1 goals |  C. Kobald 1 goals |
Sportfreunde Lotte missing players
Karlsruher SC missing players
| Sportfreunde Lotte | Karlsruher SC | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 10 | 7 | Drew | D | 5 | 11 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | ||
| 30 | 13 | Scored | S | 18 | 35 | ||
| 39 | 13 | Conceded | C | 13 | 24 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 76% | ||
| 80% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 56% | ||
| 44% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 32% | ||
| 2.9 | 2.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.1 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.3 | ||
| 0.7 | 0.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 7.2 | 5.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.7 | 11.6 | ||
| 3.2 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.8 | ||
| 45% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 49% | 37% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Karlsruher SC | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Jahn Regensburg | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 3 | Dynamo Dresden | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | St. Pauli | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Hamburger SV | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Werder Bremen | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Heidenheim | 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 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hansa Rostock | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Schalke 04 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Nurnberg | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Paderborn | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Erzgebirge Aue | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Hannover 96 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 15 | Ingolstadt | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -4 | 0 |
| 16 | Darmstadt 98 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 0 |
| 17 | Sandhausen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 0 |
| 18 | Holstein Kiel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 0 |