The hosts are stuck on the bottom of the table and are on a must-win situation, as a draw will not help them too much. They had a decent run of form at the start of October, when they hold mighty Bayern to a draw (3-3) and then they trashed Koln away from home (4-0), but they weren`t able to keep the momentum and suffered back-to-back defeats against Mainz at Borussia-Park (2-3) and against leaders Dortmund, as they couldn`t hold the advantage gave by Marco Reus goal and lost 1-4 in the end. The offense is quite strong, as Borussia MG hold the 7th scoring record of the league (only in 3 out of their 14 games they failed to score), but the defense is the Achile`s heel, with 40 goals conceded (by far the worst defense in Bundesliga)
High flying
On last season, Hannover bravely fought against relegation until the last moments of the campaign, but this term they are one of the surprise packages of the league as they comfortably sit on 4th place, above defending champions Bayern. Slomka`s lads are high in confidence after a great run of 3 winning games, so definitely they will be looking to extend the winning series against the most out-of-form opponent. Striker Abdellaoue, who scored 4 goals this season, is still unavailable, but he missed the last 3 successes anyway and there is still plenty of offensive power with Didier Ya Konan (6 goals) and in-form Mike Hanke, who scored in the last 2 rounds.
Goals festival
It should be a goal-galore between two sides which are usually involved in Over games. Gladbach tops the total goals table, as the games in which they were involved have an average of 4,79 goals/match, with Hannover having an average of 3 goals/game, so overall in the 28 games these teams played were scored 3,79 goals/game. 12 out of Gladbach`s 14 games were Over 2,5 (10 Over 3,5 in fact), as well as Hannover`s 10 games, while also the tradition in head-to-heads favours goals-galore. On last 2 seasons the home side have won the games with the respective scorelines: 5-1, 3-2, 5-3 and 6-1.
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Prediction:
Tip: Over 3,5 Goals
Odd: 2,62
Bookie: William Hill
Stake: 5 /10
Tipster: Kather
