Schalke 04, the second in the table, travels to Hannover 96 on Sunday afternoon. If Hannover would win this fixture, they would become equal on points with Schalke. Both sides have just played in the Europa League on Thursday evening.
|
BET HERE:
|
A very important 2:1 victory for
Hannover 96 in Copenhagen on Thursday, especially as they had just gone through a little crisis in Bundesliga. Hannover has already played 19 matches this season and seemed to weaken recently. At least they are still unbeaten on the own grown in Bundesliga. There they have defeated top teams like Bayern (2:1), Dortmund (2:1), Bremen (3:2) or Sevilla (2:1), but had problems against weaker sides. Important midfielder Schmiedebach will miss out due to his 5th yellow card.
In strong form is
Schalke 04. Including the Cup and Europa League they won four of the last five matches. Their defence has made progress under new coach Huub Stevens, conceded only a single goal in the last five games. Also up front Schalke has quality with players like Raul, Farfan or Huntelaar. The latter has scored 21 goals in his 19 season matches already. However, Schalke is not the most reliable side, recently lost 1:2 at home against Kaiserslautern and couldn't beat AEK Larnaka at home on Thursday (0:0). Quite surpising considered that Schalke had won 5:0 at Larnaka two weeks before. The reason might be that coach Stevens had given several players a rest against the Cypriots.
Hannover 96 v FC Schalke 04 Bundesliga: Round 12
Date: 6 November 2011 - 15:30 CET
Stadium: AWD-Arena, Hannover
Referee: Wolfgang Stark
Hannover: Keeper: Zieler
Defenders: Chahed, Haggui, Pogatetz, Schulz
Midfielders: Rausch, Pinto - Stindl, Pander
Forwards: Schlaudraff, Abdellaoue
Coach: Slomka
Injured: Andreasen, Carlitos, Miller
Booked: Schmiedebach
Schalke: Keeper: Unnerstall
Defenders: Höwedes, Papadopoulos, Matip, Fuchs
Midfielders: Jones, Holtby - Draxler, Raul, Farfan
Forwards: Huntelaar
Coach: Stevens
Injured: Fährmann, Hoogland, Kenia, Kluge
Booked: -
The AWD-Arena in Hannover has a capacity of 49,000. So far an average of almost 45,000 visitors came to the six Bundesliga home matches of Hannover. Schalke gets traditionally well supported and as Gelsenkirchen is only 200 km away from Hannover, many Schalke fans will travel to Hannover.
Clouds at 14 °C are forecasted for Hannover on Sunday afternoon.
Last meeting: 22 January 2011, Hannover - Schalke 0:1
Wins Hannover: 15
Wins Schalke: 33
Draws: 12
Recent performance (W - Win, D - Draw, L - Lose)
|
Hannover - D/W/L/L/W
Schalke - W/W/W/W/D
At home Hannover has won all matches against top teams, so another home win wouldn't surprise. However, Schalke strong and confident enough to make at least a point here.
The best odds on a
draw you can find at
Victor Chandler.
Place your bets!
