Week 13 brings us a match on Oct 22nd where Hannover 96 will travel to Neurenberg to battle Nürnberg in a clash of these two extremely mismatched 2. Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 13 degrees, a perfect day for football. Nürnberg sits at 14th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Waldhof Mannheim. Gohlke struck first for Nürnberg on an own goal in the 62nd minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Waldhof Mannheim couldn’t manage to score, and Nürnberg took the shutout win. Nürnberg is looking for direction having 4 win and 6 losses in their last 10 matches, while hannover 96 sits at 5th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Arminia Bielefeld. Cedric Teuchert struck first for Hannover 96 in the 4th minute, then Håvard Nielsen added another in the 86th minute on a feed from Leopold In the end, Arminia Bielefeld couldn’t muster any offence and Hannover 96 ran away with the shutout win. With 19 points in their last 10 matches Hannover 96 should be reasonably happy with their performance.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Nürnberg won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Both Håvard Nielsen and Cedric Teuchert have been the hottest scorers for Hannover 96 in the last 5 each having scored 3 goals. Nürnberg hasn’t been successful in netting any goals lately. Their top scorers in the last five matches are Christoph Daferner and Lino Tempelmann, and they each have 1 goal.