VfL Osnabrück vs 1. FC Kaiserslautern — 2. Bundesliga: prediction, stats, lineups & analysis
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VfL Osnabrück host 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 2. Bundesliga matchday 11
VfL Osnabrück welcome 1. FC Kaiserslautern to Stadion an der Bremer Brücke on matchday 11 of the 2. Bundesliga, with Patrick Schwengers officiating. The hosts sit 10th on 11 points from 10 games, while the visitors are fourth on 18 points, seven clear of Osnabrück and six places higher.
AI-assisted match preview written from official match data.
Timo Schultz's side arrive after a 2-0 defeat at VfL Wolfsburg last time out. That was the second loss in their last five, which also contain a 3-0 home win over SpVgg Greuther Fürth, two draws and a 2-1 defeat at Arminia Bielefeld. They have scored six and conceded six across those five matches.
Torsten Lieberknecht's Kaiserslautern come off a 3-0 home defeat to Hertha BSC, though that was their only loss in five, a run that includes wins over VfL Bochum, 1. FC Nürnberg and Hannover 96. They have kept four clean sheets in those five matches and conceded three goals in total.
Across their last 2 meetings, VfL Osnabrück won 0, 1. FC Kaiserslautern won 1, with 1 draw. The most recent meeting was 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3–2 VfL Osnabrück on 10 March 2024.
Osnabrück have won one of their last five, while Kaiserslautern have won three of theirs and conceded only three goals.
Kaiserslautern have won three of their last five away games and kept three clean sheets on the road, while Osnabrück have lost two of their last five at home.
VfL Osnabrück meet 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the 2. Bundesliga (Regular Season - 11). Kick-off is Saturday, 7 November 2026, 12:00 UTC at Stadion an der Bremer Brücke. Referee: Patrick Schwengers.
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Sirius · Why these numbers
VfL Osnabrück 24% · Draw 26% · 1. FC Kaiserslautern 50%
Kaiserslautern's stronger rating gives them the edge — We give 1. FC Kaiserslautern 50% mainly because they sit 166 points higher on our strength rating, 1473 to 1307, which outweighs the usual home advantage VfL Osnabrück enjoy. The draw sits at 26%, starting from the usual 25% for a gap this size and nudged up slightly because both sides' own recent games average 2.4 goals.
Why 1. FC Kaiserslautern at 50%?
1. FC Kaiserslautern sit 166 points higher on our strength rating — 1473 to 1307. Sides with a 160–240-point rating edge on the road won 50.5% of 7,223 such games. The 300 most similar past games finished 37–23–40.
Why only 50%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 50% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 26% and VfL Osnabrück at 24%.
Why the draw at 26%?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 25.3%. These teams' recent games average 2.4 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 26.4% of 30,399. The goals environment adds 1.1 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
1. FC Kaiserslautern have averaged 8 percentage points more possession than VfL Osnabrück in recent games. That doesn’t change our forecast here. Last five: VfL Osnabrück D-D-L-W-L, 1. FC Kaiserslautern D-W-W-W-L — 1. FC Kaiserslautern are clearly the hotter side on recent results. Between equals, recent form told us almost nothing: the home side won 44.0% of 2060 games when clearly hotter and 43.8% of 3981 when clearly colder. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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About this match
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- Match stats — possession, shots, expected goals (xG), corners and cards.
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- Head-to-head record and recent form for both sides.
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