On the 15th of May, in this week 34 match, Darmstadt 98 hosts Paderborn at Merck-stadion Am Böllenfalltor in a meeting of these two evenly matched 2. Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 19 degrees, which is great football weather. In their last match, Darmstadt 98 recorded a 1-2 loss against Fortuna Düsseldorf. Emmanuel Iyoha scored the first goal for Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 3rd minute, then Matthias Zimmermann added another in the 10th minute on a feed from Felix Klaus. Darmstadt 98 is looking for direction having 5 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches, while paderborn sits at 6th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-0 shutout win against Sandhausen. Florent Muslija struck first for Paderborn in the 27th minute, then Philipp Klement added another in the 60th minute In the end, Sandhausen was frustrated by Paderborn’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Paderborn ended the match with the shutout victory. Paderborn should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 19 points in their last 10 matches.
Paderborn and Darmstadt 98 last played eachother at the Benteler-arena on Saturday Dec 11th. Darmstadt 98 was victorious by a score of 1 to 0 in front of a crowd of almost three thousand fans. Pfeiffer struck first for Darmstadt 98 in the 81st minute on a feed from Fabian Holland, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Paderborn couldn’t manage to score, and Darmstadt 98 took the shutout win.
Florent Muslija has been the most prolific scorer on Paderborn in the last 5 matches with three goals. Darmstadt 98’s most prolific scorer has been Luca Pfeiffer. The German attacker has netted 3 goals over the last five matches.