Week 21 features a match on Sun Feb 19th, where Heidenheim plays host to Nürnberg in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched 2. Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, and temperatures reaching a maximum of only 0 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. Heidenheim is fresh off their 3-3 draw against Hamburger SV. Jan-Niklas Beste struck first for Heidenheim in the 27th minute, then Jan Schöppner added another in the 30th minute on a feed from Marnon Busch. Heidenheim should be reasonably happy with their recent performance, earning 20 points in their last 10 matches, while nürnberg is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against Jahn Regensburg. Enrico Valentini struck first for Nürnberg in the 56th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, Jahn Regensburg couldn’t muster any offence and Nürnberg ran away with the shutout win. Nürnberg is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in Max-morlock-stadion, Heidenheim was victorious by a score of 3 to 0. Denis Thomalla struck first for Heidenheim in the 44th minute, then Adrian Beck added another in the 49th minute In the end, Nürnberg couldn’t muster any offence and Heidenheim ran away with the shutout win.
Taylan Duman and Enrico Valentini are the top scorers for Nürnberg in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Both Andreas Geipl and Tim Kleindienst have been the hottest scorers for Heidenheim in the last five each having scored 2 goals.