Regionalliga: West match prediction: Little separates Wegberg-Beeck and Sportfreunde Lotte in quality

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Competition: Germany Regionalliga: West
Competition: Sat 02.April
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Waldstadion (5000 seats)

Crucial clash in the bottom section of the Regionalliga: West, with both Wegberg-Beeck and Sportfreunde Lotte going through more anxiety than delight. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the host team placed 17th and the visitors in 18th position.

Insights:
  • Wegberg-Beeck have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in Regionalliga: West
  • Sportfreunde Lotte have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Regionalliga: West game only three days ago. That game was also an away game, at Rot-Weiß Oberhausen. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Wegberg-Beeck form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Regionalliga: West this season. Wegberg-Beeck have only managed 3 wins, 3 draws and 10 losses from their games here at Waldstadion.

A strong away win for Wegberg-Beeck against Borussia M'gladbach II the last match, as Hoffmanns were on target.

Preceding that match was the home game against Alemannia Aachen that was lost 0-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Wegberg-Beeck perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Wegberg-Beeck as a small favourite), we find seven games. Wegberg-Beeck has won four of these, drawn one and lost two.

Wegberg-Beeck have scored 13 league goals here from 16 matches, not a lot. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Wegberg-Beeck defense is not exactly impregnable. 31 goals conceded from 16 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. 16 of these goals were let in after the match timer had passed one hour (more than 50 percent).

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Sportfreunde Lotte form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sportfreunde Lotte so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-12 (win-draw-lose).

Sportfreunde Lotte play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (placed 4th).

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Bonner SC.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by Sportfreunde Lotte in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Sportfreunde Lotte, zero draws and five defeats.

A new game in only four days for Sportfreunde, the Regionalliga: West home match versus Uerdingen. Busy days.

The attacking power of Sportfreunde Lotte when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 15 league matches away. The Sportfreunde manager Tiemann-Gorny has some worries about the defense as 31 goals have been conceded in these travels. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The latest reported result featuring both these participants is the Sportfreunde Lotte - Wegberg-Beeck 1-2 played previously this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two Wegberg-Beeck victories, zero draws and three Sportfreunde Lotte wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Sportfreunde LotteC. Euschen
C. Euschen
7 goals
Wegberg-BeeckJ. Benteke Lifeka
J. Benteke Lifeka
6 goals
Sportfreunde LotteE. Andzouana Huglech Yanouch
E. Andzouana Huglech Yanouch
6 goals

Wegberg-Beeck missing players

Sportfreunde Lotte missing players

Wegberg-Beeck Sportfreunde Lotte
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
31 16 5 Played P 5 15 30
6 3 1 Won W 2 2 8
9 3 1 Drew D 0 1 2
16 10 3 Lost L 3 12 20
25 13 5 Scored S 5 10 31
50 31 11 Conceded C 8 31 51
90% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
74% 81% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 80% 87% 90%
39% 50% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 60% 53%
26% 31% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 20% 20%
13% 12% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 7% 10%
52% 56% 80% BTTS BTTS 40% 47% 50%
19% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 20% 7% 17%
39% 31% 20% Failed to Score F T 40% 47% 33%
 
2.7 2.7 4 Corners for (avg) C F 4 2.9 3.3
5.1 4.7 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5.2 5.4 5.2
2.7 2.8 2.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.6 1.4 1.4
4 3 2 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
5.4 4.7 4.4 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 6.5 7.4
2.3 1.9 2.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.1 3.3
35% 42% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 33% 29%
 
8.1 7.8 7.6 Shots against (avg) S A 9.6 12.5 12.1
4 3.9 3.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.4 5.7 5.4
Key stats in Regionalliga: West this season:
  • Sportfreunde Lotte have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Sportfreunde Lotte have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Sportfreunde Lotte haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Wegberg-Beeck have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Wegberg-Beeck have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Wegberg-Beeck have the fewest scored goals in the first half (8) in Regionalliga: West
  • Wegberg-Beeck haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Preußen Münster 30 20 7 3 56 20 15 11 3 1 28 7 15 9 4 2 28 13 36 67
2 Rot-Weiss Essen 29 20 6 3 64 28 14 10 2 2 29 13 15 10 4 1 35 15 36 66
3 Fortuna Köln 30 18 10 2 50 22 15 8 6 1 27 15 15 10 4 1 23 7 28 64
4 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 30 18 7 5 57 27 15 10 3 2 31 11 15 8 4 3 26 16 30 61
5 Wuppertaler SV 30 17 9 4 55 22 14 8 4 2 27 12 16 9 5 2 28 10 33 60
6 Koln II 30 15 8 7 63 39 16 9 4 3 39 20 14 6 4 4 24 19 24 53
7 Rödinghausen 31 16 5 10 37 28 16 9 2 5 21 13 15 7 3 5 16 15 9 53
8 Wiedenbrück 31 12 11 8 39 25 16 6 7 3 26 15 15 6 4 5 13 10 14 47
9 Fortuna Düsseldorf II 30 10 9 11 52 49 15 5 4 6 29 26 15 5 5 5 23 23 3 39
10 Rot Weiss Ahlen 30 8 12 10 41 54 14 5 7 2 18 15 16 3 5 8 23 39 -13 36
11 Lippstadt 08 30 10 5 15 42 50 14 5 3 6 18 17 16 5 2 9 24 33 -8 35
12 SV 1919 Straelen 31 10 5 16 34 53 15 4 3 8 12 25 16 6 2 8 22 28 -19 35
13 Borussia M'gladbach II 31 10 4 17 35 43 16 6 1 9 21 25 15 4 3 8 14 18 -8 34
14 Bonner SC 31 9 7 15 39 51 16 2 5 9 15 29 15 7 2 6 24 22 -12 34
15 Schalke 04 II 30 8 8 14 42 55 15 6 5 4 23 21 15 2 3 10 19 34 -13 32
16 Alemannia Aachen 30 8 7 15 34 46 15 6 2 7 20 21 15 2 5 8 14 25 -12 31
17 Wegberg-Beeck 31 6 9 16 25 50 16 3 3 10 13 31 15 3 6 6 12 19 -25 27
18 Sportfreunde Lotte 30 8 2 20 31 51 15 6 1 8 21 20 15 2 1 12 10 31 -20 26
19 Uerdingen 30 4 8 18 30 78 16 3 4 9 20 39 14 1 4 9 10 39 -48 20
20 Homberg 31 3 7 21 22 57 15 1 4 10 10 25 16 2 3 11 12 32 -35 16

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Read more about Regionalliga: West

The Regionalliga is the fourth level of football in Germany. It is divided into five groups based on regional location, leading to the names Regionalliga Südwest, Regionalliga West, Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga Nord and Regionalliga Nordost. Each group usually has 18 teams.