Hamburg vs Hansa Rostock Predictions

• Twelve of Hamburg’s last 17 league victories produced at least a two-goal margin.
• Over half of Hansa Rostock’s league defeats since 2020/21 produced a 2+ goal margin.
• Hamburg are unbeaten in 12 of 14 all-time home H2H encounters.

Promotion-chasing Hamburg can dominate

after opening their league campaign with a rather straightforward 2-0 win over Braunschweig, Hamburg return home in search of continuing to set the early pace.

Having only missed out on promotion via the slimmest of margins last term, the hosts know that these are the games they must win if they are to achieve just that this time around.

Historically, Hamburg have absolutely dominated Hansa Rostock across the 14 all-time encounters on their own turf (W10, D2, L2), a run which includes victories in each of the last five encounters, four of which eclipsed a -1 handicap!

Hansa Rostock can’t stop the rot

A 1-0 opening day defeat to Heidenheim continued the awful form that Hansa Rostock ended last season with, thus extending their current winless run of competitive games to seven games (D4, L3).

The visitors were unbeaten in 12 of their 17 away league games last season, although one of the only five defeats came at this very ground and by a comprehensive 3-0 scoreline, suggesting that  there may be something of a gulf in class.

We are sticking with Hamburg to do the business by a handicap-busting 2-0 scoreline in this clash.

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