Bochum vs St. Pauli prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2025-01-14 17:30.
[p]A fourth defeat in six Bundesliga matches (W1, D1) – 2-0 against Mainz – means that Bochum remain bottom of the table, with all four of those losses seeing them fail to score. Up next is a home game against St. Pauli, but somewhat alarmingly, Wednesday’s hosts have collected just five points on their own patch in 2024/25, joint-bottom of that particular metric in the division alongside their upcoming opponents. [/p]
[p]Bochum can point to the fact that they haven’t lost any of their last five H2Hs (W2, D3), but the last of those meetings was in the second tier four seasons ago. If you’re a neutral simply looking for entertainment, this may not be a great place to look either, as none of Bochum’s last seven matches featured more than 2.5 goals. [/p]
[p]Despite being eight points better off than Bochum, St. Pauli have relegation worries of their own, as they sit just one point above the bottom three. But heading into their midweek trip to the Vonovia Ruhrstadion, they will be buoyed by the fact that nine of their 14 points this season have come away from home, including a priceless 1-0 win at Stuttgart in their last encounter on the road. [/p]
[p]The opening goal has indicated how St. Pauli’s Bundesliga matches will go in 2024/25 so far, as the team that has made it 1-0 has gone on to win on all 14 such occasions. Unfortunately for Alexander Blessin’s men, in five of their last seven games, it has been their opponents who have claimed victory, with the Hamburg-based outfit netting just once overall during those defeats. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Lukas Daschner might be struggling for minutes, but if given the chance he will be motivated to show what he can do for Bochum against his former club, for whom he assisted a late equaliser in 2020/21’s corresponding fixture. Given the expected absence from the starting line-up of Johannes Eggestein, Danel Sinani is in line to keep his place in the XI, his only previous St. Pauli goal came in the 82nd minute, but his 11 club goals prior arrived before the hour mark. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Eleven of St. Pauli’s last 12 Bundesliga matches have featured at least two second-half yellow cards. [/p]
[p][i]Written by Alex Bowmer[/i][/p]