Perhaps a welcome break from league football as St. Pauli & Schalke 04 face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the DFB Pokal. All the pre-match information is available here!
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Pauli and Schalke 04.
St. Pauli form and stats
Action has already taken place for St. Pauli in DFB Pokal as they have defeated Atlas Delmenhorst to reach the 2nd Round.St. Pauli have performed here at Millerntor-Stadion this season with 4 wins from 6 2. Bundesliga matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 2 games and lost 0.
St. Pauli's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Karlsruher SC. The home side are looking to build on that result. The victory against Karlsruher SC came after Treu's winning goal. The Pauli manager Hürzeler was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 83rd minute. Eggestein, a natural forward, was the declared top player for the team in that fixture, earning a rating of 7.83 (out of 10). Eggestein scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 24 successful passes (of 30 total).
A 2-2 draw away in the 2. Bundesliga before that, with Paderborn the opponent.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for St. Pauli as they are travelling to their away game against Elversberg in the 2. Bundesliga. That match is three days after this one.
St. Pauli can score goals in their home matches. After 6 league matches they have found the net 15 times. Pauli are not conceding a lot of goals here at Millerntor-Stadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
Schalke 04 form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Eintracht Braunschweig in order to reach 2nd round of DFB Pokal.There's been little loot from Schalke 04's travels as they have only collected 1 point from 6 away games in the 2. Bundesliga. Schalke 04 only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 1 draw.
Schalke 04 had fun at their own home (Millerntor-Stadion) last time out, beating Hannover 96 3-2. Tempelmann, Lasme and Karaman scored. Attacker Karaman got a player rating of 8.73 in the game. "Man of the match" Karaman scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Prior to that match, the Schalke 04 manager Geraerts faced defeat when travelling to Karlsruher SC and losing 0-3.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Schalke manager Geraerts as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Nurnberg.
People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Schalke 04 concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
St. Pauli-Schalke 04 H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Pauli two wins, Schalke 04 three wins, zero draws. four of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The matches between these clubs sometimes lean towards being ill-tempered, having seen 5 red cards from the last five encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Hartel 5 goals |  J. Eggestein 5 goals |  E. Saad 3 goals |
St. Pauli missing players
Schalke 04 missing players
| St. Pauli | Schalke 04 | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 7 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 62 | 23 | Scored | S | 23 | 50 | ||
| 21 | 8 | Conceded | C | 37 | 55 | ||
| 84% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 86% | 84% | ||
| 36% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 71% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 36% | ||
| 56% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 7% | 12% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 29% | 24% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5 | ||
| 3.2 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.9 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 17.2 | 18.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.9 | 11.4 | ||
| 6.1 | 6.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4.5 | ||
| 41% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 45% | ||
| 9.2 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.1 | 13 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.7 | 5.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | St. Pauli | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 23 |
| 2 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 21 |
| 3 | Hamburger SV | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 21 |
| 4 | Holstein Kiel | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 19 |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 18 |
| 6 | Kaiserslautern | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 18 |
| 7 | Elversberg | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 18 |
| 8 | Nurnberg | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | -1 | 18 |
| 9 | Hertha BSC | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 15 |
| 10 | SpVgg Greuther Fürth | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 15 |
| 11 | Wehen Wiesbaden | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 15 |
| 12 | Paderborn | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -3 | 15 |
| 13 | Magdeburg | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 13 |
| 14 | Karlsruher SC | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -1 | 12 |
| 15 | Hansa Rostock | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 12 |
| 16 | Schalke 04 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -8 | 10 |
| 17 | Osnabruck | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | -16 | 6 |
| 18 | Eintracht Braunschweig | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11 | -15 | 5 |
