Borussia Mönchengladbach – St Pauli: a fear-soaked night at Borussia Park 
This Friday night Borussia Park will be a pressure cooker. Relegation hangs heavy over both clubs, so this clash between Borussia Mönchengladbach (12th, 25 points) and St Pauli (16th, 24 points) is already huge. With nine games to go, a slip-up is almost unforgivable.
Borussia Monchengladbach in freefall 
Nothing’s going right at the moment for Gladbach. Last week they got slapped 4-1 by Bayern — a result made worse when Rocco Reitz saw red on the 55th minute. Eugen Polanski’s side are running on empty: eight matches without a win in their last nine, and five defeats in there.
The big worry is the defence — it’s leaking everywhere. Nine goals conceded in the last four games, double what they shipped before. To top it off, the home form has gone cold. Just two wins in their last seven visits to Borussia Park, and in six of those matches they managed at most a single goal. Simple tip for Friday: they need to score first. Statistically, the team that scores first has won 18 of Gladbach’s 25 matches this season.
St Pauli bring out the barbed wire 
For the visitors it’s a bit upside down. Sitting in the drop-playoff place with a dreadful goal difference (-17), the Kiezkicker have suddenly found form. Alexander Blessin’s men picked up 10 points from the last 15 available. Only Leipzig and Bayern have been better over that stretch.
They’ve struggled for goals — just three in their last four — but they’ve tightened up at the back and are chasing a third straight clean sheet in the league. They even ended their away hoodoo by nicking a 1-0 win at 3rd-placed Hoffenheim after five straight defeats on the road. Between these two this season it’s been mixed: Gladbach thumped them 4-0 in the league in November, but St Pauli got revenge with a 2-1 in the Cup a month later.
Likely lineups
Borussia Mönchengladbach : Nicolas ; Sander, Elvedi, Diks ; Scally, Engelhardt, Stoger, Ullrich ; Honorat, Mohya ; Tabakovic
St Pauli : Vasilj ; Wahl, Smith, Ando ; Pyrka, Metcalfe, Irvine, Ritzka ; Fujita, Lage ; Sinani
Football Prediction Borussia Monchengladbach vs St Pauli
Monchengladbach Win
With the relegation alarm blaring, neither side will want to take reckless risks on Friday.
The fear of losing will likely beat the urge to go for glory. Given the attacking issues both teams have shown recently and the hot stakes in this relegation scrap, expect a tight, stop-start, tactical tussle. A point apiece after a bruising battle looks the most likely outcome.
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