FC St. Pauli

vs

SC Freiburg

Preview

St. Pauli (home)

• FC St. Pauli are an intense, high-pressing side with a 3-4-3 formation that has a high-octane style at its core.
• Alexander Blessin’s men like to push up the field and apply pressure, they look to play quickly in vertical passes and often create chances out of nothing when the game gets stretched.
• St. Pauli are unbeaten in their last two at Millerntor (W1, D1).

Freiburg (away)

• The Bundesliga is entering its final two weeks of the 2025-2026 season with Freiburg currently sitting in eighth position on 34 points from 26 matches, whilst St. Pauli are 16th with 24 points from the same number of games.
• Freiburg, on the other hand, are a disciplined and compact 4-2-3-1 unit that are often at their most dangerous on the break.
• Freiburg are on a two-game losing streak, having lost 1-0 away to Genk in the Europa League and 1-0 at home to Union Berlin.

Head-to-Head

• Freiburg have won two of the last three Bundesliga head-to-heads with St. Pauli (1L).
• St. Pauli have the better home record in this matchup (W2, D3, L8 vs W4, D4, L4).

Key Players

• Andreas Hountondji, who has scored four Bundesliga goals in 13 appearances for Die Braun-Weißen this season, is their main attacking outlet.
• Vincenzo Grifo has scored seven Bundesliga goals in 26 games to top the club’s scoring charts, but it’s been the solid defensive screen that has allowed them to pick up positive results.

Prediction

• Freiburg should have the quality and tactical nous to hold off St. Pauli and win in Hamburg on Sunday afternoon.
• With St. Pauli having found the net just 13 times in 12 home league games, we’re going for a low-scoring game with Freiburg’s organisation and discipline outplaying St. Pauli’s high-risk approach.