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Dusseldorf vs Sandhausen Prediction & Betting tips
The top match of the 21st matchday of the 2. Bundesliga will take place on Friday evening. The league leader Fortuna Dusseldorf welcomes the fourth-placed Sandhausen. While at the Dusseldorf goal is clearly the rise in the Bundesliga, probably have the least expected that the SV Sandhausen would be placed so high in the table. Only four points behind, they have the relegation place and are thus among the hottest promotion aspirants. We expect a thrilling game between two top teams of the 2nd Bundesliga! The kick-off in the Esprit Arena takes place at 17:30.
Dusseldorf :
The crew of Friedhelm Funkel came very well from the winter break. With two victories against Erzgebirge Aus (2: 1) and in Kaiserslautern (3: 1), she has underpinned her advancement ambitions and consolidated first place in the table. With twelve wins, four draws and four defeats, the Dusseldorf have 40 points on the account and thus five points ahead of the relegation place and already nine points on the fourth-placed Sandhausen. In order to keep an eye on the subject of ascent, in the winter the Japanese Genki Haraguchi was lent as reinforcement by the Berlin Hertha. He became the match winner at the game last weekend in Kaiserslautern. After the delay shortly after halftime, Haraguchi transformed after about one hour a self-inflicted foul penalty to 1: 1. For the decisive 3: 1 shortly before the end by Lukas Schmitz, he did the preliminary work. All three of the last three league matches have been won and the weak phase towards the end of the first half seems to be over. With six wins in ten games Fortuna is the second best home team in the 2nd Bundesliga.
Only the opponent from Sandhausen is even better in his own stadium. In the match on Friday, Rouwen Hennings will again be part of the squad, on the Friedhelm Funkel had to give up because of a yellow card suspension on the Betzenberg. Otherwise, the Rhinelander are currently spared the injury pitch, so that Coach Funkel can draw from the full. With Rouwen Hennings and Belgian Benito Raman they have two strikers in their ranks, who have already scored seven goals.
Sandhausen :
In addition to the storks from Kiel, the team from Sandhausen remains for me the surprise team of the league. With 31 points, they have now worked on fourth place in the table and are only four points behind the placed on the relegation place Kiel. From the last four league games they could take ten points. After the winter break, there was a 0-0 in Ingolstadt and a 1-0 victory in the home Hardtwaldstadion against Dynamo Dresden.
The team of coach Kenan Kocak provides with only eighteen goals against the best defensive of the league. With 25 goals scored, his team is not one of the most aggressive teams. In the last eight games of the second league Sandhausener have conceded only once more than one goal. Of the last seven away games they could win with the 2: 1 in Darmstadt only a single game. They collect most of their points in their own stadium. Sandhausen is even the best home team in the league. The best attacker of the Baden-Württemberg is Lucas Höler with seven goals, followed closely by Richard Sukuta-Paso, who has already scored six goals. Kocak will probably have to do without some players in the top game. Damian Roßbach (fractured skull), Andrew Wooten (muscle bundle tear), Stefan Kulovits (muscle tear) and Ken Gipson (fibula fracture) are not available.
Dusseldorf vs Sandhausen head to head matches
27.08.17 2BUN Sandhausen Dusseldorf 1 : 2
27.01.17 2BUN Dusseldorf Sandhausen 0 : 3
06.08.16 2BUN Sandhausen Dusseldorf 2 : 2
12.03.16 2BUN Sandhausen Dusseldorf 1 : 0
25.09.15 2BUN Dusseldorf Sandhausen 0 : 1