St. Pauli’s crisis appears to be slowly deepening. The “Pirates” performed decently at the end of 2024 and started 2025 on a good note. Things took a turn for the worse after this, and their results started dropping significantly. After 25 rounds, the team from Hamburg finds themselves in 15th place, just above the relegation zone. They are only 2 points clear from the 16th position, meaning a loss of points could have detrimental impacts on their ranking.
St. Pauli managed to grab a point against Wolfsburg (1-1) in the previous round, which surprised many people. Alexander Blessin’s team was able to open the score and seemed like they could come away with all the points, but unfortunately Amur converted a penalty in the 70th minute to bring the game to a draw. Doing this enabled the “Pirates” to end their streak of 4 straight losses, 3 of which were without scoring a single goal in the Bundesliga. In searching for new sources of strength to turn around their currently dismal performances, rigidly sticking to a game plan to grab any form of points has not proved effective.
Hoffenheim are also in contention of being relegated from the Bundesliga. The situation is much easier for them though. Gaining 26 points has brought them to 13th place, and they now have a buffer of 6 points over the relegation zone. Their recent results have certainly been helpful in changing the narrative that was surrounding them at the start of last month, which seemed pretty dire with them being one of the favorites to be relegated.
In Hamburg, Christian Ilzer’s squad comes in with an unbeaten record of 4 matches. Most significantly, the constant defensive mistakes that put Hoffenheim under the threat of relegation have seemingly been dealt with. In the previous round Hoffenheim drew with Heidenheim 1-1, and before that they defeated Bochum 1-0, drew with Stuttgart 1-1, and beat Werder 3-1.
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