Schalke 04 vs Hannover Match preview

Germany - Bundesliga: Schalke 04 vs Hannover

The last season saw Schalke come in third, but the team have much higher ambitions for the new season. Hannover will also start the new season with big appetites, aiming to fight their way to one of the European competitions, which won’t at all be easy having in mind that the competition will be much stronger this time.


Royal Blues excellent against Colchoneros in front of their fans

Schalke will start the new season stronger, for Dutch trio has arrived. New coach is Fred Rutten who has marked a fantastic season in Twente leading them to the Champions League qualifications. Together with him arrived Orlando Engellar who is excellent at neutralising opponent’s play, while striker Jefferson Farfan will be in charge for terrorising opposite nets.

Schalke ended the preparation matches in the best possible way, won seven out of nine, and the only time they drew was precisely against the rivals on the opening of the new season. They also confirmed good form in the Champions league first qualifier, when Schalke marked a minimum win over Atletico from Madrid in front of home fans. The problem for the blues will be a long injury list, where new striker Farfan joined after the match against Atletico. Besides young attacker coach won’t be able to count on experienced Mladen Krstajic, or on first-choice keeper Manuel Neuer who is recovering a broken leg. Aside from several other injured players, Rafinha also won’t be in the team because he had to travel to the Olympics with the national squad.


The Reds also have injury problems

Hannover will start the new season with a higher aim than in the last one. Coach hecking said before the start that his players will fight from the first round to earn a place in Europe next season.

Club management, as well as Hannover fans, are relying mostly on striker Schlaudraff who arrived from Bayern during the summer, so he in tandem with experienced Hanke should be Reds main weapon in the upcoming championship. As for the rest of the famous names that reinforced Hannover this summer, we should mention excellent Eggimann and experienced Forssell. Hannover were also great in the preparation games, out of which we will mention only a weak game against Werder where Reds suffered a result disaster 6:1. Tarnat, Stajner, Jensen, Yankov and Zizzo are injured and won’t play.

Betting Verdict

Last season at Veltins Arena, the match ended drawn, while Schalke marked three successive wins before that. Both sides will start this duel weaker, which primarily applies to the home squad. Anyway the best thing would be to bet on goals here.

Our tip: Bet 7 on Over 2.5 goals
Odds 1.85 at
Bookmaker: Gamebookers