Match Report
50 points separated the sides: Paloma 5th on 61, Halstenbek-Rellingen 17th on 11. On recent form Paloma sat only 9th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 5th overall. Per game in the league, Halstenbek-Rellingen were scoring 1.29 and conceding 3.15, Paloma 2.47 and 1.47, against a competition average of 2.22 goals per team per game.
Halstenbek-Rellingen had lost nine in a row. Over the last five, Halstenbek-Rellingen had taken 0 of 15 points to Paloma's 10.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 0 Halstenbek-Rellingen wins, 4 for Paloma, 1 draw, at 3 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 40% of the meetings went to the host. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 60%.
The match was played at Jacob-Thode-Platz (capacity 2,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Paloma led 1-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 0-3.