Match Preview vs SC Paderborn

Opponents Focus: 

The Ostwestfalen side have only recorded two wins in their last 14 2.Bundesliga matches with seven draws during this streak. Lukas Kwasniok’s side have failed to build on their good start to the season which sees them sitting with the middle pack in the table. 

It was revealed at yesterdays Press Conference that top scorer Felix Platte along with Jonas Carls and Marcel Mehlem will not be traveling north for the game at the Volksparkstadion. Platte has had to step up his game since the winter transfer of arguably our visitors best player for the past few seasons, Sven Michel, when he joined Bundesliga side Union Berlin.

Late chaos in their win over Kiel last month, a draw to a weakened by covid Fortuna Düsseldorf and a defeat to Jahn Regensburg is definitely a mixed bag of unwated results from Kwasniok’s side and they will look to getting back to picking up three points, with Saturday’s game their first stop.

The Match Facts : 

Jatta with interesting minutes played…
At HSV the club's founding year, 1887, is a very often used number that is even successfully taken into account in merchandising. When a statistic throws up this number, it is therefore worth mentioning. And this is the case with Bakery Jatta before the kick-off against SC Paderborn: With the minutes played so far in the 26 games of the season, the winger of the Rothosen has exactly 1887 minutes. An HSV precision landing, so to speak. And who would you wish that on more than Bakery Jatta. He is and remains an HSVer through and through. 

Paderborn better away
Even though SC Paderborn have lost two of their last three away games, the Ostwestphalians feel right at home, away from home this season. With 25 points in 13 games, the team still ranks second in the away table behind SV Werder Bremen (26 points in 14 games). This means that SCP has won more than twice as many points in away matches than at home (12). Seven of the nine wins this season have come away from home. In the north, there was a 4:1 in Bremen and a 4:3 in Kiel, as well as a 0:0 in Hannover and a 2:2 at FC St. Pauli. 

SCP: Michel's big footsteps
With Sven Michel, SC Paderborn's top scorer (14 goals, 7 assists) moved to Union Berlin in the Bundesliga during the winter break. Since his departure, the Ostwestphalians have won only one match (4:3 in Kiel). The question is: Who will fill Michel's shoes? Coach Lukas Kwasniok's team is still very well-stocked on the offensive lines. For HSV, the task is to contain the circles of Felix Platte (8 goals in the season), Kai Pröger (4 goals), Dennis Srbeny (2 goals) or even newcomer Florent Muslija (3 goals after the winter break) as best as possible.