Arminia Bielefeld - Karlsruher SC

Newcomer Bielefeld started well and had an excellent advantage to the teams at the bottom but due to the long winless run at home they are getting more and more in danger. Of course they are still a bit above the red zone but the teams behind are collecting all Points and coming closer. Therefore they should try to find a way to win their first home game since April. It looks like that they have a real curse on home games. They are playing not such bad but they are not able to get their good offensive actions finished. With only 2 goals in 7 games, they are far away from good and with this number they can not win matches. For this reason they have to improve their offensive play a lot. The defensive work is very well, they are hardly to beat and conceded only 5 goals at home so far. They conceded 3 of them in both defeats to Braunschweig 0-2 and RB Leipzig 0-1. Nevertheless the team is in good shape and all believe that they are able to win against KSC and celebrate with their fans after long time at home. Coach Meier was ill under the week but should be on the sideline and he changes maybe two times because with Hemlein and Börner are two players back compared to the game in Berlin. In this case Hornig is on bench after his first start from beginning on this Season last weekend. Not available is Behrendt who is suspended for this game and in offense is Nöthe a big doubt, he suffers muscle problems. But with Müller and Ulm they should have good replacements there too. 

The team from Karlsruhe was not very pleased with the performance and defeat in derby against Sandhausen two weeks ago. They showed a much better performance to Leipzig at home but lost due to a reflected shot 0-1. They should have deserved much more because they dominate this game and were the much better side. Also they had the chance to take the lead but greek attacker Diamantakos missed a penalty. This should have them put in an excellent situation and Leipzig never has won on this evening then. But it was much different and they must try to get the Points back that they have lost. They are only a few Points ahead of the red zone too, because with 19 Points they have only 2 more as their opponent today. Therefore this can be a very close and hard fight for the win maybe. As the performance was good from the starting lineup it is not sure if Coach Kauczinski changes anything then. Of course he has some in back but it is not a must according to last good performance. But it is a big difference if KSC plays at home or away from home. Away from home they are doing not so well and they collected only 8 Points so far, scored only 5 goals in 8 matches and conceded already 14. 

This is the next chance for Arminia to get the job done at home after a long time. Maybe this can be the right opponent to the right time because KSC has a lot of problems on the road. If they can not take the lead and play from a compact defensive it is very hard for them to get something. The team from Bielefeld had a fan meeting under the week and all are very hot for the first win. They talked a lot and key striker Klos said that they made an agreement with the fans ..... they invest all what they have available to win this one. 

PICK: Arminia Bielefeld AHC 0 @ 1,84 + OVER 2 @ 1,84 (both 3 Units / Flat Stake)