FC St. Pauli - Greuther Fürth

All square at Hamburg

TEAM NEWS

St. Pauli’s Marc Hornschuh, Waldemar Sobota, Clemens Schoppenhauer, Svend Brodersen, Bernd Nehrig and Luca-Milan Zander are still absent but are working on their comebacks. Furthermore, the team have to find replacements for both Sami Allagui and Cenk Sahin over the upcoming weeks after they were sent off last weekend.

Mathis Bolly will be the only player not at Greuther Furth’s disposal due to injury.

St. Pauli

Suspended: Sami Allagui, Cenk Sahin

Doubtful: None

Injured/unavailable: Marc Hornschuh (back), Waldemar Sobota (heel), Clemens Schoppenhauer (shoulder), Bernd Nehrig (calf), Luca-Milan Zander (thigh), Svend Brodersen (knee)

Greuther Furth

Suspended: None 

Doubtful: None

Injured/unavailable: Mathis Bolly (muscle)

MATCH PREVIEW

MAIN PREDICTION: DRAW

St. Pauli’s awful run continues but a win over Greuther Furth on Saturday would lift them above the Shamrocks in the table. St. Pauli have had a poor season overall and Markus Kauczinski still has a mountain to climb as he attempts to keep the club in the second tier. Saturday’s 3-1 loss at Regensburg was no doubt their next big setback, having lost three in a row, but it is now all in their own hands with the final three matches taking place Furth, Bielefeld and Duisburg. The next two home games could prove to be pivotal in the race for survival. 

Greuther Furth are looking nervously over their shoulders after winning just one, drawing two and losing two of their last five 2. Bundesliga matches. After taking the lead against in-form Bochum early in their last league outing, Damir Buric’s men will have been gutted to concede an equaliser in the 80^thminute to drop two points against Bochum last Friday. The Shamrocsk remain only one point above the drop zone as a result.

With both sides desperate for points, this is set to be a gigantic tussle in Hamburg. However, I can see the pair cancelling each other out at Millerntor Stadium. My money is on a hard-fought draw.

SECOND PREDICTION: HILO – LOW 

Just three of St Pauli’s ten draws and none of Greuther Furth’s eight have seen more than two total goals. This looks to be a low-scoring draw.

HEAD TO HEAD

Eight of St. Pauli’s last 13 league home meetings against Greuther Furth have ended level, with the most recent one finishing 1-1 last May. St. Pauli have won two while Greuther Furth have managed three victories at Hamburg.