Ahem, as we peer into this tussle of football titans, St. Pauli and Augsburg, we must address a few factors. Let's start with the guys who have the enviable task of standing between the sticks. For Augsburg, it’s Finn Dahmen, doing an admirable job with an impressive 13 saves and a 7.15 rating. A mirror image performance as St. Pauli's Nikola Vasilj who also sits on a 7.15 rating with 12 saves. Quite the contest there, now isn’t it?
Shifting gears to the athletics on the field. For Augsburg, Chrislain Matsima and Cedric Zesiger will be leading the line, and hopefully, the scoreboard (if they figure out how to convert, that is). On the contrary side, St. Pauli will be banking heavily on Morgan Guilavogui and the steel-clad Hauke Wahl to level the balance or possibly tip the scale in their favor.
Turning back the pages, it would be remiss of us to forget that the last encounter between these two ended with Augsburg as the comfortable winners, merrily marking up 3 goals to St. Pauli's lone one.
In an interesting turn of recent events, both Augsburg and St. Pauli seem to be hitting quite the stride with Augsburg winning their last three encounters while St. Pauli has registered two commendable victories. However, if we backtrack a bit, Augsburg's season record could make their fans crave a bit more of that winning feeling coming in with 7 wins, 4 draws, and 8 losses. St. Pauli presents a similar picture of struggling form with 6 wins, 2 draws, and 11 losses.
When we piece these bits of information together, like a jigsaw we suddenly realize nobody remembers how to complete, we can only surmise one possible outcome. Prepare your bets, it's anyone's game, but for the sake of argument, let’s swing towards the team with the upper hand historically.
Albert’s Prediction: Augsburg by 1