📏 Form Guide

RW Essen

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RW Essen will be hoping to return to winning ways here after the 3-2 3rd Liga losing effort in their last game against Hansa Rostock.

For RW Essen, the goals were scored by Michael Schultz (41' Own goal), Dickson Abiama (63') and José-Enrique Ríos Alonso (82'). Andreas Voglsammer (61') and Emil Holten (86') scored for Hansa Rostock.

Matches with RW Essen have usually been engaging affairs recently with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen games alone, the sum of 26 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 4.33 goals per game) with 13 of those coming from RW Essen. We will just have to find out whether or not that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Going into this encounter, RW Essen are unbeaten in their last 5 home league matches.

Mannheim

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Mannheim will go into this match following on from a 2-1 3rd Liga win in the defeat of Alemannia Aachen in their previous match.

For Mannheim, the scorers were Niklas Hoffmann (10' Own goal) and Terrence Boyd (51', 56').

Looking at their form, and Mannheim have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, letting opponents get 11 goals overall. In defence, Mannheim have not been doing too well.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Mannheim:

• have not beaten RW Essen when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 16/04/2023, there has been little to separate the clubs with RW Essen winning 3 of those games, Mannheim 3 and 0 being drawn in normal time.

A total of 16 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Essen and 10 being from Mannheim. The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league match featuring the two was 3rd Liga match day 8 on 27/09/2025 which ended up with the score at Mannheim 6-1 RW Essen.

The match was refereed by Florian Lechner.

🔮 Prediction

Our feeling is that Mannheim could well find it tough to hit the back of the net against this RW Essen lineup who we think should win and very possibly keep a clean sheet.

We therefore see a very competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for RW Essen at the end of this game.

Let’s see how this one goes.

Andre Moura, 17:06 04/03/2026