Betting tips & odds comparison 15.07.2022 1. FC Kaiserslautern – Hannover 96 SV
Kaiserslautern will be looking to kick off the new Bundesliga 2 season with a bang when they welcome Hannover 96 to Fritz Walter Stadion on Friday evening for their league opener.
Both of these teams have been engaging in pre-season friendlies in the lead-up to this match. This will be their first real test of competitive action since they finished the season
We expect a competitive encounter here and we will focus on Melbet and Odibets for our football betting tips for this match.
KAISERSLAUTERN
Kaiserslautern took a massive gamble at the end of the 2021/22 season when they gave their coaching staff marching orders. This gamble paid off as the newly appointed head coach Dirk Schuster took charge and won the promotion playoff against Dynamo Dresden.
Schuster will be looking to implement his style for the new campaign and he has previously shown he has what it takes to move underrated and obscure clubs up to the next level.
Kaiserslautern have done some brisk business to address some of their defensive shortfalls by signing in a few good defenders from the top division. The test of the pudding will however be in the eating and this first match gives them a good chance to wet their feet.
HANNOVER 96
Hannover struggled on their travels last season winning just 29% of their road games and they will be out to try and turn that horrible number around this time around. They finished just outside the top 10 but a turnaround in their away performances should see them finish further up and that’s their stated objective for this season.
They have looked pretty solid on their pre-season friendlies where they have not lost any of the seven friendlies they have played (5W, 2D). Whilst this may not necessarily be a good gauge of their strength, it certainly injected some confidence in the squad coming into this league opener.
Coach Stefan Leitl will be hoping that confidence will translate into a positive outcome here.
POSSIBLE LINEUPS
KAISERSLAUTERN
- Luthe
- Boyd
- Hanslik
- Kraus
- Niehues
- Redondo
- Ritter
- Tomiak
- Wunderlich
- Zimmer
- Zuck
- COACH: Dirk Schuster
- MISSING PLAYERS: None
HANNOVER 96
- Zieler
- Beier
- Besuschkow
- Borner
- Dehm
- Kerk
- Kohn
- Neumann
- Nielsen
- Ondoua
- Schaub
- COACH: Stefan Leitl
- MISSING PLAYERS: None
KAISERSLAUTERN VS HANNOVER 96 PREDICTIONS
We expect a close game here as both of these teams look to get a solid start to the season. There’s bound to be some rust from both teams despite the friendlies they have been playing. Momentum should however pick up as the match progresses and as the players start to get their rhythm back. For our opening tip for this game, we are backing the 2nd half of this game to have more goals than the 1st half @ 2.05 with Odibet app.
Having said that we fancy Kaiserslautern to pick up from where they left at the end of last season. They will do all the early running here, backed by their local supporters. Melbet have them opening the scoring priced at 1.99 and we feel betting on this option would be an excellent betting strategy given their solid home record.
Performance
1. FC Kaiserslautern performance of the last 5 home matches
Hannover 96 performance of the last 5 away matches
Current Standing
| POS | TEAM | PTS | MP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2
1
|
1. FC Heidenheim 1846
|
67 | 34 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 67 | 36 | 31 |
|
1
2
|
SV Darmstadt 98
|
67 | 34 | 20 | 7 | 7 | 50 | 33 | 17 |
|
3
3
|
Hamburger SV
|
66 | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 70 | 45 | 25 |
|
6
4
|
Fortuna Dusseldorf
|
58 | 34 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 60 | 43 | 17 |
|
4
5
|
FC St. Pauli
|
58 | 34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 55 | 39 | 16 |
|
5
6
|
SC Paderborn 07
|
55 | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 68 | 44 | 24 |
|
7
7
|
Karlsruher SC
|
46 | 34 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 56 | 53 | 3 |
|
10
8
|
Holstein Kiel
|
46 | 34 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 58 | 61 | -3 |
|
8
9
|
1. FC Kaiserslautern
|
45 | 34 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 47 | 48 | -1 |
|
9
10
|
Hannover 96 SV
|
44 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 50 | 55 | -5 |
|
11
11
|
1. FC Magdeburg
|
43 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 48 | 55 | -7 |
|
12
12
|
SpVgg Greuther Fürth
|
41 | 34 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 47 | 50 | -3 |
|
13
13
|
Hansa Rostock
|
41 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 32 | 48 | -16 |
|
15
14
|
1. FC Nuremberg
|
39 | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 32 | 49 | -17 |
|
14
15
|
Eintracht Braunschweig
|
36 | 34 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 42 | 59 | -17 |
|
16
16
|
DSC Arminia Bielefeld
|
34 | 34 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 50 | 62 | -12 |
|
17
17
|
SSV Jahn Regensburg
|
31 | 34 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 34 | 58 | -24 |
|
18
18
|
SV Sandhausen
|
28 | 34 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 35 | 63 | -28 |
- Promotion
- Relegation play-off
- Relegation play-off
- Relegation