On Saturday Mar 19th, Schalke 04 will play host to Hannover 96 in a meeting of these two 2. Bundesliga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 10 degrees, which will be a great treat for players. Schalke 04 sits at 5th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 3-0 shutout win against Ingolstadt. Rodrigo Zalazar Martínez scored the first goal for Schalke 04 in the 55th minute, then Malick Thiaw added another in the 71st minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Ingolstadt couldn’t manage to score, and Schalke 04 took the shutout win. With 18 points in their last 10 matches Schalke 04 should be reasonably happy with their performance, while 14th placed Hannover 96 is fresh off their 0-3 loss against Nürnberg. Lukas Schleimer struck first for Nürnberg in the 26th minute on a feed from Nurnberger, then Tom Krauss added another in the 83rd minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Hannover 96 couldn’t manage to score, and Nürnberg took the shutout win. Hannover 96 is looking for direction having 4 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
Hannover 96 and Schalke 04 last played eachother at the Hdi-arena on Oct 15th. Schalke 04 was victorious by a score of 1 to 0. Marcin Kamiński scored the first goal for Schalke 04 in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Hannover 96 was frustrated by Schalke 04’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Schalke 04 ended the match with the shutout victory.
For Hannover 96, their top scorers are Sebastian Kerk and Sebastian Stolze, each having 2 goals in their last 5 matches. Simon Terodde has been on a hot streak lately. In the last 5 games, the attacker has scored 4 goals for Schalke 04.