Hansa Rostock vs Karlsruher Predictions

• Hansa Rostock drew their last four home league matches last season.
• Karlsruher drew seven of their last 11 matches in 2020-21.
• There has been fewer than three goals in the last six Hansa Rostock home league games.

Low-scoring draw looks on the cards in Rostock 

Promoted Hansa Rostock open up their 2.Bundesliga campaign at home to a Karlsruher side that finished sixth – ten points off the promotion play-off spot.

Hansa-Kogge added quality, shed some players deemed not good enough for their new level and enjoyed some good results in pre-season so the mood will be positive for the visit of Karlsruher.

KSC make the long trip north from Baden-Württemberg after tasting defeat only once in seven pre-season games and that was to Russian giants Zenit St Petersburg.

No-one at the club is talking openly of a promotion challenge, but there is quiet confidence in the squad that finished well last season – with only two defeats in their last 12 league games.

Too many draws cost them a chance to go up last season and until they can turn more of those 0-0 and 1-1 scorelines into wins, we are not going to be backing them.

A draw seems a distinct possibility here, but we prefer the odds of this match finishing with fewer than three goals because that has been the case in Hansa’s last six home contests.

We’re backing a 1-1 draw in the correct score market too because three of those four draws were by that exact scoreline.

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