Hamburg take on the visitors Paderborn in the round 28 match of German 2. Bundesliga. The match will be played on Saturday, April 2nd at Volksparkstadion (Hamburg).
Despite the fact that Hamburg is higher in the standings and have the task of getting back to the Bundesliga, the hosting side doesn’t show solid football, to put it mildly. Hamburg are currently 6th in the standings and fall 6 points behind top-3 but they also have played 1 match sell than other teams. "Dinosaurs" cannot record a win for the past 4 matches in a row, taking only 2 draws with teams from the bottom of the standings. The head coach of Hamburg will not be able to count on Tim Leybold and Stefan Ambrusis in the match with Paderborn. Losses are far from critical and all the key players are ready to break the series without victories.
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Paderborn - a solid mid-table side in the 2. Bundesliga. The visitors are eighth at the moment two positions below Hamburg. Unlike the “Dinosaurs”, Paderborn has no real chance of promotion, and such objectives were not set. Curious moment - Paderborn is one of the best teams in the 2. Bundesliga in terms of results on the road. The away side are second behind Werder Bremen with a game in hand and have only lost two away matches out of 13. The away goal difference is 27-16. In the reverse fixture match, Hamburg won 2-1 away, scoring the winning goal at 90+4 minute.
Paderborn has no line-up with problems at all, all the players are healthy. So, what do we have, Hamburg has a goal to get into the top three, but the desire is not yet visible on the field, the Dinosaurs cannot win 4 matches in a row and the quality of football is very weak now. The Paderborn are not bad and often spoils the nerves of the leaders and rarely loses by big number of goals. Of the 8 defeats this season, Paderborn lost 7 times by 1 goal and once by 2 goals. I expect that there will be a tough match, in which Hamburg, if they win, then by a maximum of 1 goal.
Prediction for the match: Paderborn to win with +1.5 handicap
