FC St. Pauli - SC Paderborn

St. Pauli to take the spoils in tight game at Millerntor

TEAM NEWS

St. Pauli's Sami Allagui, Marc Hornschuh and Luca-Milan Zander are all injured and will not be available for the home match against Paderborn. 

Steffen Baumgart has a fully fit Paderborn team to choose from. The only unavailable player is Massih Wassey with a back injury.

St. Pauli

Suspended: None

Doubtful: None

Injured/unavailable: Sami Allagui (broken rib), Marc Hornschuh (spinal disc), Luca Zander (ankle)

Paderborn

Suspended: None

Doubtful: None

Injured/unavailable: Massih Wassey (back)

MATCH PREVIEW

MAIN PREDICTION: HOME WIN

After a three matches losing streak St. Pauli earned an important league win at Ingolstadt last time out. Ryo Miyaichi’s 82. Minute strike gave St. Pauli a 1-0 win over the Schanzer. Markus Kauczinski’s Pauli have won three and lost three of their opening six league matches. However, the team have a lot of work ahead of them, if they want to increase their stability in defense, having conceded a league high of 13 in total so far.

Paderborn surprised away from home beating leaders Cologne with a 5-3 scoreline and claimed their first win on their travels last time out. Unfortunately for the SCP their attack is one of the best in the league – having with Philipp Klement and Sven Michel two dangerous guys in their rows. Nevertheless, that was a welcome result for Paderborn, who had lost their opener and drawn to Greuther Furth away from home this term. The team have accumulated nine points so far, with two  wins, three draws and one defeats.

A hard match is expected between these two sides, but with St. Pauli’s latest win I think they make it back-to-back wins in front of their crowd.

SECOND PREDICTION: ODD/EVEN - ODD

Five of the last six league meetings between the pair at Millerntor have finished with total odd goals. With that in mind, I’m backing odd total goals be scored at Millerntor in midweek.

HEAD TO HEAD

St. Pauli have not beaten Paderborn in the last six league matches, drawing three and losing three of those matches.