TSV Havelse come into this one with very little defensive security at home, and that keeps Both Teams To Score in play. They have failed to keep a clean sheet in ten straight league matches, while their home record reads 23 scored and 32 conceded from 15 games. With Energie Cottbus away from home averaging 22 goals scored and 23 conceded, both attacks have enough to work with.
Havelse’s recent run has also been lively enough for goals at both ends. Their last six league games produced four defeats, one draw and one win, with five of those six going over 2.5 goals. The 5-2 loss at SSV Jahn Regensburg on 21 March was especially open, and Havelse have now conceded at least twice in several of their recent fixtures.
Cottbus have been less chaotic, but their away numbers still fit the BTTS case. They are sixth in the away table with seven wins, two draws and five losses, and their last six league matches include two draws and two wins. The 1-1 with SSV Ulm 1846 on 21 March followed a 4-1 defeat at Alemannia Aachen and a 2-1 away win at VfB Stuttgart II U21, so they are not arriving as a side that regularly shuts opponents out.
There is one small wrinkle: Cottbus have had a couple of recent low-scoring home matches, including two 0-0s, so they are not a pure goals-overs team every week. Even so, Havelse’s lack of clean sheets is the stronger angle here, and the only head-to-head meeting listed finished 4-3 to Cottbus, which fits the same pattern of both sides finding the net.
My prediction is Both Teams To Score at 53/100. Havelse have gone ten league matches without a clean sheet, their home record has 32 conceded in 15, and they have landed BTTS in six straight market checks. Cottbus have scored 22 away goals in 14 trips and conceded 23, while the only listed head-to-head ended 4-3.
