After a resounding 2nd minute goal by Bale I can move onto bet no 3 and have chosen a Bundesliga 2 game tonight between St Pauli and Hamburger SV.
St Pauli are currently sitting at 12th place out of 18 in the league and have an impressive 8 game form record of 19 points as opposed to Hamburger being 4th in the league and a less impressive form of just 13 points from 8 games
St Pauli’s last 4 home games have been 3 wins and 1 defeat and this against league leaders Bochum where there were a total of 4 goals in the 1st half with St Pauli scoring first in the 4th minute and a game of “Ping Pong” ensued. leaving a half time score line of 2-2. Bochum then administered the Coup de Gras in the 63rd minute.
To probe further back, the first home game of the season began well for 1st half goals with 2 being scored in this game followed by 2 more in the match v Nurnberg. Karlsruher made it 3 on the trot with a single scored in the 4th minute. A disappointing end to November saw Osnabruck score the only goal to win in the 85th minute. Christmas Month started well with a 10 minute score by Erzgebirge and the first goal scored by Dusseldorf in the same minute in the next game. This year there has been only 2 home games where there were no first half goals once v Holstein Kiel and the other against Sandhausen.
On to 4th Placed Hamburger and the 1st half goals statistic is at least 1 first half goal has been scored in 86% of Hamburg’s 2. Bundesliga games this season. That home and away. If I look at just the away games the 1st game of the season against Paderborn saw 5 (FIVE) first half goals. We then have to go to the 12th Dec to see no goals in the 1st half, this was against Darmstadt. Since then only the Dusseldorf game has seen no 1st half goals!
5 out of 6 games this year have seen Hamburger score or concede at least 1 goal in the first 20 minutes when playing away.
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