Match Report
Osnabrück (18th, 28 pts) visited Kaiserslautern (13th, 39 pts) with 11 points between them. Kaiserslautern had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 5th in the league over the last five rounds against 13th overall. Per game in the league, Kaiserslautern were scoring 1.74 and conceding 1.88, Osnabrück 0.91 and 2.03, against a competition average of 1.55 goals per team per game.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 2 Kaiserslautern wins, 2 for Osnabrück, 1 draw, at 2.6 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 40% of those meetings.
The match was played at Fritz-Walter-Stadion in Kaiserslautern (capacity 49,780). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 5 more goals closed it at 3-2.