Match Report
In the standings it was FSV Frankfurt 3rd on 57 points, Hessen Kassel 6th on 54 — separated by 3. FSV Frankfurt's recent output lagged their position: 7th on form over five rounds while 3rd in the table. Scoring rates set the scale: FSV Frankfurt 1.88 scored and 1.41 conceded per game, Hessen Kassel 1.82 and 1.5, with the league averaging 1.69.
FSV Frankfurt came in having won three on the spin, having scored in 13 consecutive games. Hessen Kassel came in having won four on the spin.
The head-to-head ledger counts 7 games: 3 FSV Frankfurt wins, 2 for Hessen Kassel, 2 draws, at 1.71 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 29% of those meetings. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 29% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match was played at Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion (capacity 12,500). The referee was M. Forster, with 27 matches in our database and 2.2 yellows per game on average. FSV Frankfurt led 3-1 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 4-2 full-time score.
Goal scorers
FSV Frankfurt: Birkan Celik (2'), Ismail Harnafi (27'), Ismail Harnafi (87'), Cas Peters (45') · Hessen Kassel: Adrian Bravo-Sanchez (69'), Lukas Rupp (10')