Fortuna Dusseldorf hosts Sandhausen in round 18 of German Bundesliga 2. The match will be played on Friday, December 17th at Merkur Spiel-Arena (Düsseldorf)
Not so long ago, Fortuna Dusseldorf was able not only to rise to the Bundesliga but also to stay there for the second year. But in 2020, the team again dropped to the familiar environment of the weaker division. In the last draw, there were some hopes for an early new rise. As a result, the representative of Dusseldorf finished in 5th place, scoring only six points less than Holstein Kiel, who went to the playoffs. Now Fortuna is nothing more than a middle peasant of the league. The Red-Whites gained one victory and five points in the last six rounds, and now they are taking a place below the middle of the standings.
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Sandhausen was promoted to the Second Bundesliga almost a decade ago, in 2012. And without showing any special results (the maximum success was 10th place in 2017), the Black-and-Whites managed to score enough points for survival. In the last championship, they earned 34 points in 34 matches played, but even such indicators allowed them to take the saving 15th position. Sandhausen outranked Osnabrück by only one point. If the bosses of the club heard this alarm bell, they could not take it into account. Now Aleksandr Zhirov, who was called up by Cherchesov to the Russian national team, and his partners show very depressing results: 14 points in 17 games and the penultimate place. Sandhausen showed a good streak in the 2nd half of October (two victories and two draws), but then the team lost three times and shared points with Paderborn and Holstein Kiel.
Fortuna gained four victories in the last five head-to-head matches. One more game ended in a goalless draw, but the guests from Dusseldorf simply could not breach the opponents’ defense then. The layouts in this pair have not changed much: Fortuna is noticeably stronger than Sandhausen. We bet on the victory of the hosts.
Prediction for the match: Fortuna Dusseldorf to win
