German Bundesliga: Hamburger SV vs St. Pauli Odds and Betting Preview

HAMBURG, GERMANY - The delayed Hamburg dery will take place this evening as Hamburger SV and St.Pauli lock horns at the Imtech arena. Hamburger are odds-on favourites for the match, priced at 3/4 (bet £4 to make £3 profit) on Betfair. A draw is best priced at 3/1 with Victor Chandlera dn St.Pauli can be backed at best odds of 9/2 with Betfred.

In the total goals market, over 2.5 goals is priced at 5/6 on Betfair and under 2.5 goals is priced at 11/10 with Boyle Sports.

Hamburg beat Wolfsburg last wekend to continue their impressive run of form since the Bundesliga restarted after the Winter break and they have now moved into contention for the European places havingwon three of their last four games and they will hope to make it four from five against thei fierce rivals.

St.Pauli though have also been in good form and have recorded back-to-back wins over Koln and then Borussia Monchengladbach, which were supposed to sandwich this match, which was postponed because of very heavy rain.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy are the bookies favourite to open the scoring, priced at 9/2 with Paddy Power. In the same market, Petric is priced at 11/2 with Bet365, Guerrero is quoted at best odds of 6/1 with William Hill and Elia is a 7/1 chance with Boyle Sports to open the scoring.

In the correct score market, a 1-1 draw is priced at 7/1 with Blue Square, a 2-0 win for Hamburger is priced at 17/2 with Coral and a 1-0 win for Hamburger is priced at 9/1 on Betfair. A goalless draw is priced at 11/1 with Paddy Power.