Our prediction for this Bundesliga 2 match:
St Pauli
Match Time & Date:
05/02/2022
20:30
Prediction: 2-1
Paderborn
Following a 2-1 loss to Hamburger SV, St. Pauli will look to regain top position when they take on Paderborn on Matchday 21. St. Pauli failed to win the previous four league fixtures, meaning that they are desperate to give fans some cheer. Since their display in the defeat to HSV was anything but poor, home win should be considered. The likes of Affez Aremu, Jannes Wieckhoff, and Christopher Avevor are likely to miss the game with injuries.
Paderborn, on the other hand, experienced all sorts of problems at the back in a 4-3 loss to Werder Bremen. Anyhow, St. Pauli are more of a team than Paderborn, and we predict that the promotion-chasing hosts are going to prove their worth on the field. The good news for the visiting side is that Nigeria left-back Jamilu Collins is back from international duty.
Highlighted Player (Sven Michel):
Born in Freudenberg, Germany on July 15, 1990 Sven Michel is a professional footballer who plays for SC Paderborn 07 in German Bundesliga. Michel played for the likes of Tus Alchen, Fortuna Freudenberg, Borussia Dortmund and Sus Niederschelden during his youth career and he continued wearing the Sus Niederchelden shirt at senior level.
The German footballer then moved to Borussia M’gladbach II in 2013. After scoring 12 goals in 34 appearances for die Fohlen reserve team, Sven Michel signed a contract with fellow German club Energie Cottbus in 2014.
Sven Michel quickly established himself a first-team regular at die Lausitzer, scoring 16 goals and providing 13 assists for his teammates from 2014 to 2016. In 2016 the German attacker moved to SC Paderborn. Sven Michel made his Bundesliga debut and scored his first goal in the German top flight on August 17, 2019 in a 3-2 loss to Bayer Leverkusen.
Highlighted Team (Paderborn):
Welcoming their rivals at Benteler-Arena, Paderborn are a German club that will compete in the Bundesliga in the 2019/2020 season. The club played their first ever match in the German top flight on August 24, 2019, with the team sharing the spoils with Mainz (2-2) in front of home fans.
Benteler-Arena can hold up to 15,000 spectators and it was opened on July 20, 2008. Paderborn play their home matches in blue and black shirts and black shirts, but white is the dominant colour of their away kit. Until the 1980s TuS Scholls Neuhaus were considered the club’s main rivals are Arminia Bielefeld, with the two teams facing each other in Ostwestfalenderby.
This rivalry was established in the 2008/2009 season when Arminia Bielefeld dropped to the 2. Bundesliga. It has to be noted that Paderborn have yet to represent Germany in European competitions.
