Match
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Schalke.
Domenico
Tedesco’s team is taking the third place in Bundesliga after Bayern
and Borussia Dortmund, having gained 3 victories in 4 last rounds.
Thanks
to the achievements in matches against Hoffenheim (2:1) and Bayer
(2:0) Schalke
has strengthened the positions and at least now they have got into
one round of the Champions League. In Leverkusen last round a lot was
solved thanks to the advantage in the center field where Leon
Goretzka,
Max
Meyer
and Franco Matías
Di Santo were playing.
Daniel
Caligiuri
playing in a match against Bayer as the right winger became the best
football player of that meeting and finished season with 5 passes.
But the general accuracy of its passes in a concrete match was
absolutely low (68.3%) that doesn’t allow to speak about logics of
the choice of the analysts having made the top-list of football
players.
Hertha.
When
the best player of the match became a goalkeeper, this fact
definitely speaks about the character of the meeting. Such thing has
happened with Bayern (0:0) last round. Rune
Jarstein
who made 6 saves received an individual award as a part of the squad
of the guests.
By
the way, the same goalkeeper can be proud of dry outcome in the away
match of Die
Alte Dame
when Bayer was outplayed (2:0). 33 year old goalkeeper had missed a
match against Werder (0:0) because of trauma.
Remembering
a match with the leader and near-champion of Germany, it is also
necessary to pay attention to two important parameters of statistics.
Accuracy of passes of Hertha is really awful (62%), possession (24%)
and PPDA=21.55. It isn’t necessary to speak about dangerous moments
in such situation. The probability of a goal by Hertha at Allianz
Arena is two percent, xG is only 0.10 points.
The
victory in Leverkusen became illogical for many reasons. But the most
important is the fact that this match was the only one out of 4 away
matches in 2018 in which Hertha has managed to score.
Head-to-heads
Schalke
had won 9 matches in a row in the games against future opponent. Six
last meetings ended with minimum with two goals scored by Schalke.
The guests managed to score only one goal in last 10 visits at
Veltins Arena.
Bookmaker
line
Schalke
to win 1.7
Draw
– 3.80
Hertha
5.40
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Match
prediction
Tedesco’s
team doesn’t also impress by creative game. But by some miracle the
team is able to score practically in each match. We think that again
the center field will go to the hosts that will be a decisive factor.
Don’t wait for the high effectiveness— maximum 1-2 goals.
Schalke
to win – odds 1.7 5Dimes