Fortuna Duesseldorf vs Karlsruher SC

Intro

Fortuna Duesseldorf will be looking to give their 2. Bundesliga season a boost as they welcome Karlsruher SC to the Merkur Spiel-Arena. The home side are in the bottom half of the table, and face a Karlsruher SC side who are looking to push their way further up the league rankings. This game is set to kick off at 11:30 on Saturday 23/10/2021.

Matchweek 11 sees Christian Preusser’s Fortuna Duesseldorf host Christian Eichner and their Karlsruher SC side. The home team have taken 12 points from their 10 games and sit in 12th place. Their opponents sit in 7th place in the 2. Bundesliga table on 16 points.

We’re a few games into this 2. Bundesliga season now, but already Fortuna Duesseldorf and Karlsruher SC are separated by 5 places in the table. There’s only a few points between them, though, with 4 the difference.

Form

Fortuna Duesseldorf now has 8 points from a possible 15 thanks to that draw against Hamburger SV in the previous round.

Their opponents’ form is exactly the same. Karlsruher SC

now has 8 points from a possible 15 thanks to that win Erzgebirge Aue in the previous round.

There have been just 2 points won in four games for Fortuna Duesseldorft home this season.

Karlsruher SC has managed to win 8 points from the five games on the road so far this season.

H2H

This will be the 17th meeting between Fortuna Duesseldorf and Karlsruher SC.
Karlsruher SC will be hoping that they can win here to claw back Fortuna Duesseldorf’s lead in the H2H record. Saturday’s guests have won 4, versus 7 matches won by the hosts. 6 have been drawn.

Disregarding the complete history of this fixture, Fortuna Duesseldorf looks the brighter in recent times. It has won 2 more of the last six games against Karlsruher SC.