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Red hot Wolfsburg will take on the sinking Paderbord in an attempt to cement a Top 4 spot in the Bundesliga.
Wolfsburg (2nd place) has played some excellent attacking football this season, scoring a lot of goals but also winning games in the process. The home side put 5 points between themselves and the 3rd place before this round and have an excellent chance of adding to that difference with Augsburg losing on Saturday and Leverkusen having a tough game against Gladbach today. Coach Hecking said that his team is aware of the opportunity and will give it all for the win against Paderbord. Wolfsburg is currently on a three match winning streak, last time out a 3-0 win at Lille in the Europa League. The hosts are also the second best home team in the Bundesliga after Bayern, posting a 6-1-0 win-loss-draw statistics over 7 matches.
Paderbord started the season in amazing fashion, a real surprise, but they were expected to lose steam at some point and it finally started to happen. The visitors are nowhere near the level of football showed in the start of the season, they did not win any of their last 4 games and actually lost their last three away matches without scoring a single goal: 1-0 at Hoffenheim, 3-0 at Augsburg and 4-0 at Werder Bremen – obviously going from bad to worse.
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Team news & lineups:
Ochs and Lopes are out for Wolfsburg, while Paderborn will have to do without Bertels, with Koc having to undergo a late fitness test. No big injury handicap for either side.
Wolfsburg: Benaglio – Jung, Naldo, Knoche, Rodriguez – Guilavogui, Gustavo – de Bruyne, Vieirinha, Perisic – Olic
Paderborn: Kruse – Wemmer, Strohdiek, Hunemeier, Burkner – Ziegler, Rupp – Stoppelkamp, Bakalorz, Meha – Saglik
Wolfsburg is simply too good right now, scoring seemingly at will, playing top class football and pumping on all cylinders – I`m struggling to find a scenario in which Paderborn might take something from this. The visitors simply don`t have the quality to perform at this level and after the impressive start, teams have now figured them out. I expect Paderbord to have a really tough time in the remainder of the season and Wolfsburg is surely not a place where they can realistically hope to get back on track.
My tip is Wolfsburg to win with a 1,5 handicap – they have the quality, the home court advantage, the form, the morale and also the matchup (offense vs. defense) to win this by more than one. Statistics aside, Seeing Wolfsburg play recently, you can really envision this becoming a blowout. Prediction: Wolfsburg – Paderborn 4-0.
Pick: Wolfsburg -1,5
Odds: 2.10 @ Bet365
Stake: 8
Possible profit: 8.8
Event date: 14 December
