Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Hürth & Düren Merzenich face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Reg. Cup Mittelrhein. All the pre-match information is available here!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Düren Merzenich have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 4-1-0 (win-draw-loss) from five matches.
Düren Merzenich could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Regionalliga: West game only four sleeps ago.
Hürth form and stats
Last season their Reg. Cup Mittelrhein adventure ended in the quarter-finals.Hürth's last game was hosting Pesch and winning 2-0. Viana has beaten the opponent goalkeeper in three matches in a row. Skilful!
Prior to that, an away loss at Eintracht Hohkeppel in the Oberliga: Mittelrhein.Hürth have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Hürth scored {2 goals} and let in {1 goals} during these one game.
Düren Merzenich form and stats
Düren Merzenich's mission in Reg. Cup Mittelrhein last season failed in the quarter-finals.Düren Merzenich's last game was the home draw against Lippstadt 08 (1-1).
Prior to that match, the Merzenich manager Schommers faced defeat when travelling to Koln II and losing 0-2.Düren Merzenich have another game away in just three days, a Regionalliga: West match against Rodinghausen. A demanding schedule for them!
Just as the home team, Düren Merzenich have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 1 Düren Merzenich win, 0 draws and 1 loss.
Head 2 Head
Düren Merzenich have avoided defeat in the last 5 matches (1-4-0) against Hürth.Hürth missing players
Düren Merzenich missing players
| Hürth | Düren Merzenich | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 6 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 9 | 13 | ||
| 37 | 19 | Scored | S | 13 | 32 | ||
| 36 | 19 | Conceded | C | 30 | 43 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 88% | ||
| 48% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 20% | ||
| 60% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 43% | 36% | ||
| 4.5 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.5 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 1.8 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.2 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 7.2 | 7.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.4 | 7.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 3.4 | ||
| 44% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 37% | ||
| 9.1 | 9.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 8.9 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.1 | 4.2 | ||
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