Heidenheim vs St. Gallen Prediction & Betting Tips (19 December)

Qualified for the first time in its history for a European competition, FC Heidenheim started this Conference League very well by winning its first 3 matches against Ljubljana 2-1, Pafos FC 0-1 and Hearts 0-2. Unfortunately for them, the Germans saw their good momentum completely reversed subsequently by losing in quick succession to Chelsea 0-2 and Istanbul Basaksehir 3-1. This bad patch really coincides with the big difficulties encountered by the FCH in the championship. This has in fact only taken one point over the last 9 days in the Bundesliga. Defeated on Sunday on its home field by Stuttgart 1-3, the 16th and virtual play-off in the Bundesliga also remains on 7 defeats in all competitions. For its part, FC Saint-Gall is struggling to really exist in this Conference League that it started by setbacks suffered against Cercles Bruges 6-2 and Fiorentina 2-4.

Better afterwards with a victory against Larne 1-2 and a draw against Backa Topola 2-2, the Swiss fell back last week by losing heavily at home against Vitoria Guimaraes 1-4. In the rankings, the Helvetians are only in 30th place, only a short distance behind the top 24 qualifying for the play-offs. In its own championship, FC St. Gallen remained in 3 matches without a victory until Sunday when it dominated Zurich 0-2.

Absent for a while, the usual residents of the infirmary, Keller and Niehues, will not play this game. The top scorer of this team Pieringer (4 goals, 2 assists) will a priori be very present but is not used much by his coach in this phase of the league. Midfielder Schöppner (2 goals, 1 goal in C4) is a candidate for a place in the 11 in the same way as the Austrian Honsak (2 goals in the Bundesliga) who scored the only goal for his team last week. With a goal and 2 offerings, Conteh is the most decisive Heidenheim player in this phase of the league.

 Opposite, the Swiss should make the trip without Ghanaian substitute midfielder Nuhu, midfielder Karlen and young striker Milosevic (19 years old, 1 goal in the league). Still too close last week, the former Monegasque Geubbels, who is the club's top scorer in the league with 5 goals and 2 assists, is not sure to be present either. The very interesting Akolo and Gortler, authors respectively of 4 and 5 goals in the league (and 2 additional goals for Gortler in C4), are expected to appear in the starting 11 like the playmaker Witzig (6 assists) .