HAMBURG. St. Pauli overcomes Eintracht Braunschweig 1-0 after O. Afolayan scored just 1 goal (32′). St. Pauli was decisively superior in terms of ball possession (61%) and that was among the factors of its victory.​

The match was played at the Millerntor-Stadion stadium in Hamburg on Sunday and it started at 1:30 pm local time. In front of 29,546 spectators.​ The referee was Florian Heft with the collaboration of Lukas Benen and Fynn Kohn. The 4th official was René Rohde.

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

St. Pauli had a strong ball possession 61% while Eintracht Braunschweig was struggling with a 39% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

St. Pauli had a more offensive attitude with 48 dangerous attacks and 11 shots of which 4 were on target. This is one of the reasons why St. Pauli won the match​.

St. Pauli shot 11 times, 4 on target, 5 off target. On the opposite side, Eintracht Braunschweig shot 10 times, 2 on target, 6 off target.

Cards

St. Pauli received 2 yellow cards (Jackson Irvine and Elias Saad). Regarding the opposition, Eintracht Braunschweig received 2 yellow cards (Niklas Tauer and Anthony Ujah).

Standings

After playing this contest, St. Pauli has 45 points to hold in the 1st place. Talking about the opposition, Eintracht Braunschweig will stays with 23 points to hold in the 15th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the 2. Bundesliga, St. Pauli will play away against Holstein Kiel on the 24th of February with a 7-6 head to head record in favor of Holstein Kiel (2 draws).

Eintracht Braunschweig will host Hertha BSC on the 24th of February with a 7-1 head to head stats in favor of Hertha BSC (2 draws).

St. Pauli – Formation

St. Pauli started with an extremely aggressive line-up (3-4-3).

The manager Fabian Hürzeler decided to play with the following team: Nikola Vasilj (7.7), Manolis Saliakas (7.5), Hauke Wahl (7.3), Karol Mets (8.1), Philipp Treu (7.5), Eric Smith (7.5), Oladapo Afolayan (8.1), Jackson Irvine (7.1), Marcel Hartel (7.0), Elias Saad (6.1) and Johannes Eggestein (7.3).

The home team had on the bench: David Nemeth, Danel Sinani, Carlo Boukhalfa, Andreas Albers, Lars Ritzka (6.4), Connor Metcalfe (6.8), Adam Dźwigała, Sascha Burchert and Aljoscha Kemlein (6.3).

Substitutions

St. Pauli made 4 changes: Johannes Eggestein for Connor Metcalfe (69′), Oladapo Afolayan for Aljoscha Kemlein (83′), Manolis Saliakas for Lars Ritzka (83′) and Marcel Hartel for Carlo Boukhalfa (90′).

Player of the match: Karol Mets​

The most impressive player for St. Pauli was Karol Mets even if he didn’t score the decisive goal.

His rating is 8.1 with 92 passes (96% accurate) and 1 key pass. He won 3 duels out of 4.

Eintracht Braunschweig – Formation

Eintracht Braunschweig started with a 3-3-2-2 line-up (3-3-2-2).

Daniel Scherning played with: Tino Casali (7.3), Robert Ivanov (6.8), Ermin Bičakčić (7.0), Hassan Kurucay (7.0), Marvin Rittmüller (7.0), Fabio Kaufmann (7.1), Niklas Tauer (6.4), Thórir Jóhann Helgason (7.3), Anton Donkor (6.4), Johan Arath Gomez (6.8) and Rayan Philippe (7.3).

They had on the bench: Saulo Decarli, Jannis Nikolaou, Florian Krüger (6.8), H. Finndell (6.7), Anthony Ujah (6.4), Anderson Lucoqui (6.8), Sidi Guessor Sané (6.7), Sebastian Griesbeck and Justin Duda.

Substitutions

Eintracht Braunschweig made 5 changes: Johan Arath Gomez for Florian Krüger (69′), Rayan Philippe for Sidi Guessor Sané (69′), Niklas Tauer for H. Finndell (73′), Anton Donkor for Anderson Lucoqui (79′) and Robert Ivanov for Anthony Ujah (79′).

Player of the match: Rayan Philippe​

The most impressive player for Eintracht Braunschweig was Rayan Philippe.

His rating is 7.3 with 11 passes (91% accurate) and 3 key passes. He won 1 duel out of 4. He performed 5 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the 2. Bundesliga.​

• Elversberg – Osnabrück – 3-1
• Nürnberg – Kaiserslautern – 1-1
• St. Pauli – Eintracht Braunschweig – 1-0