Freiburg vs Holstein Kiel Prediction and Betting Tips | January 11th 2025

Freiburg will face Holstein Kiel at the Europa-Park-Stadion on Saturday in their return to the 2024-25 Bundesliga campaign after the winter break. The home side have had their struggles in head coach Julian Schuster's first season in charge but remain in contention for continental football as they sit mid-table in ninth place with 24 points from 14 matches.

They suffered a 5-1 hiding at the hands of defending champions Bayer Leverkusen in their last match and were unable to cope with Florian Wirtz and Patrick Schick as they ran riot to compound Freiburg's recent away day blues.

Holstein Kiel have had difficulty adapting to things in their debut Bundesliga campaign but have the entirety of the second half of the season to rectify that. They headed into the winter break last month on a high after carrying out a 5-1 dismantling of Augsburg in their final game of the year featuring goals from three different players including striking duo Phil Harres and Shuto Machino who netted braces.

The visitors remain 17th in the Bundesliga standings but will take inspiration from their latest result when they return to action this weekend.

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Freiburg vs Holstein Kiel Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• Saturday's game will mark just the second meeting between the two teams and their first in league action.
• The two teams faced off for the first time in a DFB Pokal clash back in October 2018 with the visitors winning 2-1 to advance to the last 16 of the tournament.
• Kiel have the picked up just one clean sheet in the Bundesliga all season, the joint-fewest in the division alongside Bochum.
• Only one of the Breisgau-Brasilianer's five league defeats this season has come at the Europa-Park-Stadion.

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Freiburg vs Holstein Kiel Prediction

Freiburg have won just one of their last four competitive matches and two of their last eight. They have however picked four wins in their last five home matches and will head into the weekend clash as big favorites.

Kiel's latest result ended a five-game losing run and they will now be looking to take confidence from that. They have however been poor on the road and in defence all season and could lose here.

Prediction: Freiburg 2-1 Holstein Kiel

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Freiburg vs Holstein Kiel Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Freiburg

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Over 2.5 goals (Six of the visitors' last seven matches have produced more than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: YES (Both sides have found the back of the net in each of the hosts' last five matches)