FC Schalke 04 - Hannover 96

Statistic:

- In 50 BL matches won Schalke 25 !!!
- In all these 50 matches were always goals, none ended 0-0.
- 10 from their last 12 home matches against H96 won Schalke (10-1-1).
- The last lose was in August 2010 with 1-2 against H96.
- Schalke won both BL matches this year and they are unbeaten since 4 matches (3-1-0).
- They lost also only one of their last 9 games (6-2-1).
- Also Hannover won both matches this year and they want to continue this way with new Coach.
- Hannover won the last away match in Wolfsburg 3-1 but failed before 8 times.
- H96 is the weakest away team according to stats in BL
- New coach Korkut has brought them back on track and they play very good and fast offensive style.

Schalke has a lot not available but this was already in the past matches the case. Therefore again without Aogo, Clemens, Draxler, Fuchs, Kirchhoff, Höwedes and Höger.

Same situation in Hannover already but it is going better there now. Only Cherundolo, Felipe, Sobiech, Pander and Ya Konan are unavailable.

Important match for both teams but I think both must go for the win as a draw is to less anyway. If you look on the table Schalke can close the gap to 2 Points to 3rd placed Dortmund while Hannover hold the aim from an international spot alive if they win because then they are only 6 Point below this places and still a lot to play. But for this reason they should make an almost equal performance as in their last away match as they did not get much in Gelsenkirchen in the past years as mentioned above. Both teams are in form and I expect a very good and entertaining game with some goals.