soccer | Schalke 04 vs TSG Hoffenheim - Oct 14 | 18:30 UTC

**Mat** · October 13, 2022

Game info Schalke 04 vs TSG Hoffenheim

Schalke 04 and TSG Hoffenheim will play this Friday, October 14, the first of two games that will take place in a four-day break. The initial battle will be responsible for opening the dispute of the tenth round of the 2022/2023 edition of the German Championship. It will have the Veltins Arena, in Gelsenkirchen, as its headquarters. Kick-off is scheduled for 18:30 UTC

How does the German Championship 2022/2023 work?

The Bundesliga has 18 participants. They face each other in turn and return throughout the season. At the end of the 34 rounds, whoever has the most points wins the title. Six spots are allocated to international tournaments through the German Championship. The top four teams go to the Champions League, straight to the group stage. The fifth place wins the right to participate in the Europa League, also directly in the group stage. The sixth goes to the European Conference League, but has to participate in the qualifiers. The relegation zone is made up of the last three classified. The two worst are sent directly to the Second Division. The third-to-last still has a chance to escape sticking. To do so, they play a repechage against the third-placed team in Bundesliga 2 at the end of the season.

Schalke 04

After spending a year in the Second Division, Schalke has made its fans, who make up one of the most fanatical and numerous fans in Germany, live again with the threat of relegation in the German Championship. It took six rounds to achieve his first win on his return to the elite division. He did that at Veltins Arena against Bochum by scoring 3-1.

The expectation that the result would become a turning point in an uneven campaign was not borne out. On the contrary. After the victory, the team did not score again. Lost the next three games. The first of them is precisely the clash considered by most of their fans to be the most important duel of the season. It took Borussia Dortmund 1-0 at Signal Iduna Park in the Rurh Valley Derby.

In the duel, he exposed his technical limitations by not hitting a single submission throughout the match. Little tried. He developed just three shots in the derby. Then, he was beaten 3-2 at home by Augsburg, who scored the winning goal when he had a player down, and on Saturday, October 8, he was beaten 4-0 by Bayer Leverkusen in the Bay Arena.

With six points (one win, three draws and five defeats), it occupies the sixteenth – third-to-last – position in the league table of the German Championship. It is the first place in the relegation zone. They have two points less than Bayer Leverkusen, who with the victory of the previous round rose to fifteenth position, first outside the Z3. As home team, Schalke appears in the fourteenth position of the Bundesliga home owners' ranking. Of the 12 points he played at Veltins Arena, he won four (one win, one draw and two defeats). He scored eight goals and conceded 12.

TSG Hoffenheim

Hoffenheim has seen better days in the 2022/2023 Bundesliga season. In the first six rounds, he won four. However, it dropped in income. In the three most recent matches, he hasn't achieved a single success. They had two draws and in the duel on Friday, October 7, against Werder Bremen, which opened the agenda of the number nine matchday, they were beaten 2-1. Even playing at home.

It even performed better throughout the match. He had control of the ball for 48% of the time, created twice as many opportunities for submission (16 to and replicated the same advantage in the rate of shots on target (6 to 3). Werder Bremen, however, opened the scoring in the 18th minute through Ducksch. Hoffenheim managed to strike back in the 32nd minute. Dabbur's attempt from Geiger's assistance.

However, he failed in his attempt to achieve the comeback and ended up having his defense leaked again in the 42nd minute in a penalty kick executed by Fullkrug. It was, therefore, parked at 14 points (four victories, two draws and three defeats) falling to seventh position in the league table of the German Championship. First post outside the region that distributes places for international competitions. One point below Borussia Monchengladbach, sixth place and last team in the elite squad. As a visitor, performance is lower. It is 10th in the Bundesliga ranking in this regard. Of the 12 points he played as column two, he won four (one win, one draw and two defeats). He scored five goals and conceded the same number of goals.

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