Hamburger SV - FC Schalke 04

Statistic:

- From the last 5 matches against Schalke won HSV only one (1-1-3).
- The win was 2012 in November 3-1 at home.
- In recent 4 BL matches were a lot of entertainment between both sides with a lot of goals.
- Schalke lost only one of their last 7 BL matches (4-2-1).
- And on the road they are 3-3-1 in their last 7 matches.
- The Hamburger SV is very weak this season, they collected only 4 from possible 21 points in the past.
- Additional home weakness is well known and they got only 3 from 12 possible points recently.
- But Hamburg is unbeaten in all their last 6 starts on sunday (3-3-0).
- And also Schalke is unbeaten in all their last 9 !!! starts on sunday (5-4-0).

Hamburg has a lot to replace today as with keeper Adler, Beister, Arslan, Djourou injured and Rincon suspended are a lot of players who are normally in the starting lineup.

On the other side the situation is getting better but they miss a lot too. Not available for Schalke is Höger, Aogo, Jones, Kirchhoff, Draxler, Clemens and Höwedes.

According to the results form yesterday HSV stands under huge pressure as all teams behind them won their matches and it is getting more at the bottom of the table. Therefore Hamburg needs every point to stay away from relegation battle but they had the luck on their side last year and maybe this time it can be that the only team who never was relegated in BL so far, is the team now. I can not see that they have learnt something from last season and they talk about EL and so on but the table speaks a different language.

Much different for Schalke, as all their rivals lost points yesterday and they can close the gap top the top 4 almost. This is a huge advantage now but they must use this. The situation is not good as most of the players are injured, of course some returned like important striker Huntelaar but he should be on bench first and give his comeback later in the game. Schalke is to much Farfan, if this guy has a weak day it is almost gone with Schalke to get anything. If you watched the matches from Schalke you would say the same.