Topic: Germany League - 2nd Bundesliga Prediction Thread - page 12. (Read 16465 times)

Of course, because Holstein Kiel first entered Bundesliga 2 in the 2017/18 season and in their first season they were able to immediately reach 3rd place, then in the following seasons until last season they were only middle-ranked team.
But this season there has been very rapid progress shown by Holstein Kiel, last season they finished Bundesliga 2 in 8th place and now have the opportunity to occupy first place.
This development is almost the same as their first season 2017/18 and it is possible that this season Holstein Kiel can outperform St. Pauli and came out as champions so they could enter the Bundesliga to compete with big team in the main competition.
Nothing is impossible as long as Holstein Kiel is able to continue making changes and can slowly have stable performance in improving the quality of the game for the better in the future.
Even though they are only about to enter the middle of the season at the moment, at least they have managed to get ahead of the team that always dominates Bundesliga 2 like Hamburger, and they can also keep up with St. Pauli.
This season has really been great opportunity for Holstein Kiel.

Schalke vs. Fürth:
Schalke are slowly finding their way back to good form and have won 3 and lost 2 of their last 5 games. They even have not conceded a goal in the last two games. That iy a good improvement from the defence.
Fürth have won 4 of their last 5 games and only drew the last one. They work very focussed and also manage to bring a 1:0 over the time.
My bet is 0:1

today starts the 17th matchday of the 2.bundesliga . will greuther fürth not lose the 7th match in a row ? can fürth also get a point in gelsenkirchen ?
or even take 3 points ? in the other match paderborn meets rostock. i think 3 points should stay in paderborn. both matches start today at 6:30 pm .
here the complete matchday from friday to sunday


source:google

That is a good analysis which you have made. Another advantage for Holstein Kiel is that nobody expected them so far. They have slowly crawled up the table and now they even have the chance to go into the winter break at place 1. Even if they will not finish on place 1 they have nothing to lose. But St Pauli on the other hand, have a lot more pressure. They could lose first place in the last moment.

Now the changes are so obvious and Holstein Kiel are climbing so fast in points that they are level with St. Pauli is in first place with 32 points.
Holstein Kiel advantage is that they were able to get 10 wins and even though there were 4 defeats, they only drew 2 times, in contrast to St. Pauli is unbeaten but has 8 draws.
Now there is big possibility for St. Pauli has much more dangerous competitors and of course one mistake was made by St. Pauli could knock them out of first place.
In the 17th match, they will play next Sunday and both of them have opponents who are not that strong so the competition in beating each other on points will look fiercer, of course they can still have the same results.

Hamburger themselves still have to compete to strengthen their position in the top 3 and it looks like they will only be able to do it like last season, which ended in the top 3.

In the future, will St. Pauli it is also not certain whether will be promoted to the Bundesliga as long as Holstein Kiel are still below them with the same points.

Yes, that was really disappointing. Hamburger SV had not lost a game at home until that match. But every series comes to an end. They really did not play well in that game. And the red card for Hamburg was absolutely nonsensical.
The points difference once again shows that most of the teams in Bundesliga 2 play at the same level. Just like last year, it shows how strong Bundesliga 2 is. Even stronger this year. Because the gap between place 3 and 10 place were 13 points last year at the same matchday.

What's worse is that it was a game in the Volksparkstadion, meaning they have one game less at home to get important three points and they were one player more for roughly 8 minutes to then waste that advantage by receiving a red card themselves. Hamburg is not just playing bad, but they are also playing dumb. Now we have again this weird situation in the 2. Bundesliga that Nürnberg ranked 10. is only 4 points away from Hamburg ranked 3.

As Alois Schwartz took over Hansa Rostock had lost 2:5 to Düsseldorf at matchday 25 at home, were place 17 in the table and had 25 points. Alois Schwartz was introduced shortly afterwards. However it took until matchday 29 for the first win. After that they had won all games but one game draw.
I am surprised they sacked him just before the winter break. There is only one game left until then.

as it became official today, Alois Schwartz has been sacked from hansa rostock. after just one win from the last eight league games and the club slipping down to the relegation places, the club was forced to take this step.
AS had only taken over hansa as Patrick Glöckner's successor in march of this year and had secured the club's place in the 2nd bundesliga with 41 points.

The defeatfrom Hamburger SV against Paderborn resulted that they are no longer at place 2 which is now occupied from Kiel and Kiel has equal points like St. Pauli. This means next weekend will decide who will go into the winter break at place 1.

Osnabrück fought with passion and the team has new hope of not being relegated at the end of the season. But there is still still a long way to go.

It was clear weather but sure even though it looked a little Shady outside the weather is great but what I see the issue was the Hamburg SV was having problems with Paderborn's Goalkeeper and the defense of Paderborn is something they will have 3 or 2 defensive players ready to defend and their Goal Keeper Pelle Boevink was really amazing, getting many saves on this game and Hamberger SV's defense is really critical now after that red card on Miro Muheim, but for sure Filip Bilbija also got the red card but for sure the defense of Hamburger SV needs to be fixed after this fight for sure there is a lot of holes within that defense of them,

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VfL Osnabruck VS FC St. Pauli - VfL Osnabruck had a great defense against FC St. Pauli it was a draw game and I never expected the number 1 position team will have a hard time against the team below even though St. Pauli made a great performance the Osnabruck did a great job with their defense, and I was surprised that St. Pauli can not do something about it,

Dusseldorf VS Holstein Kiel - In this game, Holstein Kiel made a great win against Dusseldorf and now had 10 wins while the leader team FC St. Pauli has only 8, but Holstein Kiel still didn't manage to make it to the number 1 spot, well this is because both teams have 32 points Holstein have 4 losses while FC St. Pauli doesn't have any losses, but in this game even though Holstein Kiel just got 1 goal they didn't let the Dusseldorf made any goal so it was a win for them,

what was going on in hamburg today ? was there thick fog or why didn't hamburg score more goals . hamburger sv lost their first match
of the season at home with 1:2 against paderborn . now i'm curious if the coach of hamburger sv is still coach at hsv after the winter break .
and greuther fürth can't lose anymore . 15 points from 5 games is damn good. hertha bsc is also winning again.
they will still be promoted if the team continues like this . tonight the match osnabrück against st. pauli. st. pauli is the favourite and should win.

Well, last time I checked the 2nd Division was starting and now, we are now in Matchday 16, I was surprised by this game between Wehen Wiesbaden and Eintracht Braunschweig,



What was amusing about this game was that Eintracht Braunschweig managed to defeat Wehen Wiesbaden, which is for sure Eintracht Braunschweig should be the one losing this game, for Wehen Wiesbaden game stat is doing great until Eintracht Braunschweig destroy them by having a lot of points than they have, for sure Fabio Kaufmann did a great job in getting this a win for the Eintracht Braunschweig, and I never have expected them to win and against Wehen of all team, for sure that was crazy but that was just it, any team can surely defeat the other this is the 2nd division for sure,

But right now we still have 3 games for today and sure I want to see the results for these games,

Furth VS FC Magdeburg

FCK VS Hertha

Hamburger SV VS Paderborn

these 3 games will be later for sure we will be waiting a long wait for these games to start, but what are your predictions for this games,

tonight at 18:30 it starts again. the 16 matchday starts with 2 games . hannover 96 against karlsruhe and sv wehen wiesbaden against eintracht braunschweig .
can hannover 96 finally win 3 points after almost 1 month ? and what does braunschweig do ? 8 points out of 14 games is not enough to stay in the 2.bundesliga .
it will be an exciting matchday. i'm also looking forward to the rostock vs schalke 04 duel . it will be damn hard for schalke to win in rostock .
here's the complete matchday from friday to sunday


source:https://int.soccerway.com/national/germany/2-bundesliga

If I remember correctly I think the table had been much closer last season for a very long time, but as I had another look now I noticed that Greuter Fürth is right behind the top 3 and I didn't have them on my radar at all. I thought they were more at the bottom or in the midfield as they messed up the early season. They had 12 points after 10 games and ranked 14th, now they won 5 games in a row and can reset their goals. I guess they had not been thinking about getting promoted anymore when they were 14th 1.5 months ago.

Hertha Berlin had made a big jump in the table at matchday Number 7. Then they won against Holstein Kiel and jumped from place 15 to palce 9. At that time the teams in the under half still had few points and that was the advantage for Hertha Berlin.

Yes, there are only 4 points between place 1 and 5. That will be exciting until the winter break. St Pauli have the best chance of staying on first place over the winterbreak.

who would have thought that without looking at the last 5 matchdays . hertha bsc have not lost in their last 5 matches. 3 draws and 2 wins in the last 5 matchdays.
and hertha bsc is now already in 8th place with 21 points . next weekend hertha bsc berlin has to play in kaiserslautern .
the team from kaiserslautern is also in a crisis and lost 1:4 in magdeburg last weekend . i'm curious if berlin will also win in kaiserslautern .
then the team from berlin will be back at the top again.

Hertha Berlin was at the bottom of the table. But since then they have realised what is at stake and are now at place 8 and have won 5:1 against Elversberg. That is a heavy defeat for the promoted club Elversberg. But who would have thought at the start of the season that they would already have 24 points after 15 matchdays? They will certainly not be relegated. Because they have shown a great performance as a team so far.

1.fc kaiserslautern today presented a new coach with Dimitrios Grammozis. his last coaching position was at schalke 04, which he took over in 2021 but was unable to save from relegation.
there is currently no information on the duration of the contract...

Holstein Kiel are now at second place in the table. Their 3:2 win against Wehen has moved them past Hamburger SV and they now have one point more. The draw between St. Pauli and Hamburger SV has made the table even more exciting. Düsseldorf and Fürth have also reduced the gap with their victories. Pretty exciting.