Heidenheim vs Holstein Kiel prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2025-03-15 16:30.
[p]As Bundesliga bottom side Heidenheim meet 17th-placed Holstein Kiel, this game also pits the division’s longest-serving head coaches, Frank Schmidt and Marcel Rapp, against one another, with both men well aware of this fixture’s magnitude. A loss could be a hammer blow for the hosts’ survival chances, given that their last league win came immediately after the winter break (D3, L6 since). [/p]
[p]Those prospects are already slim, as only Mainz last season have survived after collecting as few as Heidenheim’s 16 points after 25 matches in the Bundesliga, but Schmidt’s men can take heart from drawing two of their last three league games. Their home form has deserted them, as FCH have lost a club-record four successive top-flight fixtures at the Voith-Arena while scoring just once, and another defeat would be particularly damaging as they have won the last four H2Hs as hosts.[/p]
[p]Holstein Kiel will be desperate to end their long wait for a first victory at Heidenheim since October 2017 (D1, L4), and close the gap to safety, which stands at five points after last weekend’s 2-2 draw with Stuttgart. They will also need to overturn another historical sequence, as the Bundesliga side in 17th has oddly not beaten the bottom club in any of the last five such meetings (D2, L3)![/p]
[p]At least the Storks have finally won a top-flight away fixture after beating Union Berlin 1-0 earlier this month. That win over Union also saw them keep a clean sheet on the road for the first time this season, yet they have still conceded an average of 2.5 goals on their Bundesliga travels this term![/p]
[p]Players to watch: Budu Zivzivadze finally got off the mark for Heidenheim when netting against Hoffenheim last weekend (1-1), and another goal could be a good omen as he has not been on the losing side in any of his last six scoring outings. Finn Porath has netted in his last two away appearances for Kiel, with both of those strikes coming after the hour mark.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Heidenheim and Kiel have both conceded a league-high ten times between half-time and the 60th minute in the Bundesliga this term.[/p]
[p][i]Written by John Pennington[/i][/p]