In the epilogue of the 3rd round of the 2nd Bundesliga, on Monday, August 27th, the Hamburg-Bielefeld game will be played. The match will take place on the “Volksparkstadion”, starting at 19:30. The two bands rejoin an official match after a break of almost 10 years.
After the defeat in the first round, 0-3 with Kiel, the host team immediately reacted, scoring eight goals in the next two games. The championship victory, 3-0 away from Sandhausen, was followed by a success in the cup. Hamburg made a real show in confrontation with Erndtebruck, finishing with the score of 5-3. Entering the field in the 61st minute, Pierre-Michel Lasogga scored two goals in the next four minutes of play. Returning this summer after the Leeds loan, which has scored 10 goals, the 26-year-old striker, is doing all he can to get into Fritz’s band.
On the other hand, the guests come after the categorical success achieved in the 32-tenths of the cup, 5-0 with Stendal. Thus, they confirmed the good start of the season, after they won four points in the matches with Heidenheim and Dresden in the championship. Undoubtedly, Bielefeld will have a hard word to say in this edition, after he finished fourth in the previous season. The inconsistency in home developments has deprived her of a dispute over the promotion of the Bundesliga.
In the last official confrontation, disputed in February 2009, Hamburg beat the score of 2-0. Since then, the two bands have flourished in two friendly matches in 2012 and 2015, each winning one victory. Bielefeld has not won any victory in the last nine official matches.
PREDICTION: Over 2.5 goals @ 1.82
