Hertha Berlin v SC Freiburg
Football ; Germany : Bundesliga
Olympic Stadium - Berlin
Sunday, 28th August 2016 - kickoff 14:30
South German side Freiburg head to the capital to face Hertha Berlin in their opening 2016/2017 Bundesliga match at the Olympiastadion on Sunday. Our free betting tips suggest that the visitors will leave with at least a point here. Read our match preview below to find out why.
Reason For Betting Tips
After spending about twenty weeks within the Bundesliga’s top four in the 2015/16 season before finishing in seventh, the question most want answered moving forward is whether Hertha Berlin are capable of repeating this effort all the way through to the business end of the season this time around. Hertha took just two points from their last seven Bundesliga matches (D2 L5) and their eventual 7th placed finish, their highest since the 2008/2009 season, and subsequent qualification to the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round came as a bittersweet end to their campaign. Hertha scraped through to the DFB Pokal (German League Cup) second round last weekend via a penalty shoot-out win against 3. Liga side Jahn Regensburg, but have already suffered the disappointment of early elimination from the Europa League with a 3-2 defeat on aggregate to Danish side Brondby.
Freiburg return to the Bundesliga after just one season in the second division. The South German side finished top by five points and coach Christian Streich – the man who guided them into the UEFA Europa League in extraordinary fashion in 2013 – is still at the helm of an exciting, youthful team which will be boosted by the return of striker Nils Petersen after his time representing Germany in Rio for the Olympic Games. The main question for Freiburg ahead of this season is whether they can stay up. Coach Christian Streich is certainly still the right man to mastermind a survival bid, but whether the same core of players that went down two campaigns ago can avoid a prolonged relegation battle remains to be seen.
The good news for Hertha is that their stars from last year’s campaign – Salomon Kalou, Vladimir Darida, and John Anthony Brooks – are all staying on at the Olympiastadion. The bad news for Hertha is that the side are in poor form, with just one win in their last eleven competitive matches (W1 D2 L8). Contastingly, Freiburg are in top form, losing just one of their last fourteen competitive matches (W12 D1 L1), and they remain, at their core, largely unchanged since last season. Freiburg scored the most goals in the 2. Bundesliga last season and striker Nils Petersen, who was crucial to his side’s title-winning campaign, scoring twenty-one goals, has experienced top flight football with the side before, finding the net nine times in his nineteen appearances for Freiburg two years ago.
As such, we feel that the visitors have a decent chance to take away at least one point here and are definitely the better value bet. Freiburg or draw at 3/4 and Freiburg to win 2-1 at 12/1 are our top choice bets for this match.
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Football ; Germany : Bundesliga
Olympic Stadium - Berlin
Sunday, 28th August 2016 - kickoff 14:30
South German side Freiburg head to the capital to face Hertha Berlin in their opening 2016/2017 Bundesliga match at the Olympiastadion on Sunday. Our free betting tips suggest that the visitors will leave with at least a point here. Read our match preview below to find out why.
Reason For Betting Tips
After spending about twenty weeks within the Bundesliga’s top four in the 2015/16 season before finishing in seventh, the question most want answered moving forward is whether Hertha Berlin are capable of repeating this effort all the way through to the business end of the season this time around. Hertha took just two points from their last seven Bundesliga matches (D2 L5) and their eventual 7th placed finish, their highest since the 2008/2009 season, and subsequent qualification to the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round came as a bittersweet end to their campaign. Hertha scraped through to the DFB Pokal (German League Cup) second round last weekend via a penalty shoot-out win against 3. Liga side Jahn Regensburg, but have already suffered the disappointment of early elimination from the Europa League with a 3-2 defeat on aggregate to Danish side Brondby.
Freiburg return to the Bundesliga after just one season in the second division. The South German side finished top by five points and coach Christian Streich – the man who guided them into the UEFA Europa League in extraordinary fashion in 2013 – is still at the helm of an exciting, youthful team which will be boosted by the return of striker Nils Petersen after his time representing Germany in Rio for the Olympic Games. The main question for Freiburg ahead of this season is whether they can stay up. Coach Christian Streich is certainly still the right man to mastermind a survival bid, but whether the same core of players that went down two campaigns ago can avoid a prolonged relegation battle remains to be seen.
The good news for Hertha is that their stars from last year’s campaign – Salomon Kalou, Vladimir Darida, and John Anthony Brooks – are all staying on at the Olympiastadion. The bad news for Hertha is that the side are in poor form, with just one win in their last eleven competitive matches (W1 D2 L8). Contastingly, Freiburg are in top form, losing just one of their last fourteen competitive matches (W12 D1 L1), and they remain, at their core, largely unchanged since last season. Freiburg scored the most goals in the 2. Bundesliga last season and striker Nils Petersen, who was crucial to his side’s title-winning campaign, scoring twenty-one goals, has experienced top flight football with the side before, finding the net nine times in his nineteen appearances for Freiburg two years ago.
As such, we feel that the visitors have a decent chance to take away at least one point here and are definitely the better value bet. Freiburg or draw at 3/4 and Freiburg to win 2-1 at 12/1 are our top choice bets for this match.
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Head To Head
Freiburg won 2-0 away to Hertha Berlin when the two sides last met in the 2014/2015 Bundesliga season. Freiburg are unbeaten against Hertha in six consecutive fixtures (W2 D4).
Stats
Freiburg have won or drawn in all six of their last six meetings against Hertha Berlin. Freiburg have scored an average of two goals per game over their last three matches. Hertha Berlin lost or drew their last seven Bundesliga matches last season (D2 L5).
Hertha Berlin
Hertha Berlin were one of the pleasant surprises last season. They were constantly among the top four teams on the table in 20 of total of 34 rounds, but their form dropped in the last couple of months of the season. They finished as seventh in the Bundesliga and will look to repeat that success once again.
Great team news for Hertha Berlin is that they kept all of their top players from last season, so their goal for catching Europa League place looks realistic. One notable signing this summer is the 21-year-old Polish midfielder Ondrej Duda who came from the Polish champions Legia Warszawa.
Hertha Berlin opened their season with a penalty victory in the DFB Cup last weekend. The defeated Jahn Regensburg with 3-5 after the match finished with 1-1 in regular time.
Salomon Kalou was Hertha Berlin`s top scorer last season with 14 goals scored, so he will be once again the main striker in team`s formation.
SC Freiburg
After spending just one season in the 2.Bundesliga, SC Freiburg returns back in German top flight football as second division champions. They were the most attractive side to watch last season and scored whopping 75 goals in 34 matches in the 2.Bundesliga.
SC Freiburg mainly relies on players from their academy and they did not brought in any notable signings this summer. Their main goal is to stay clear of relegation, and if they play similar like they did last season they will most likely achieve that.
SC Freiburg`s form is also good at the moment. They boosted their confidence last weekend by beating the lower side of Babelsberg with 0-4 in the DFB Cup competition.
