Our prediction for this Bundesliga 2 match:
Paderborn and Karlsruher square off against each other at Home Deluxe Arena in the opening match of the season. Paderborn impressed in pre-season, with the team winning each of their last three warm-up games, and as a result, the bookies see them as favourites to beat Karlsruher at home. John Iredale is back to the team, but a top scorer Sven Michel is no longer part of the team.
Karlsruher, on the other hand, were struggling at the back in pre-season, which is probably the main reason why we are going to bet on the hosts this time out. To make things even worse for the visiting side, key attacker Philipp Hofmann joined Bochum in the summer transfer window. In their last meeting in the German second tier the two teams played out a 2-2 draw.