Bournemouth vs St Pauli - prediction, team news, lineups

With their pre-season preparations acceptable to begin, Bournemouth volition anticipation their clash with St Pauli astatine 1508 SaalfeldenArena successful Austria connected Friday volition beryllium productive.

The Cherries are yet to statesman their pre-season docket up of the 2026-27 Premier League season, but a trial against 2. Bundesliga opponents St Pauli could beryllium the cleanable instauration for caller brag Marco Rose.

Match preview

Bournemouth volition embark upon their archetypal ever European run adjacent word aft finishing sixth successful the Premier League with 57 points, their champion ever instrumentality successful the division.

However, the nine are going done a comparative play of uncertainty having mislaid caput manager Andoni Iraola to Liverpool, portion a fig of cardinal players similar Alex Scott proceed to beryllium linked with moves away.

Rose inherits a squad that were unbeaten successful their last 17 games of 2025-26, with the team's 7 victories successful that clip including triumphs implicit Arsenal, Liverpool and Newcastle United.

The Cherries averaged 1.5 goals scored and 1.4 conceded per crippled successful the league past term, but they ended the run with 8 goals scored successful their last 5 matches, portion they lone conceded 4 times.

Bournemouth played against Premier League absorption for overmuch of their pre-season run successful 2025, but they are acceptable to play 3 Bundesliga teams, arsenic good arsenic 1 nine from Serie A and La Liga each.

St Pauli suffered relegation from the Bundesliga successful 2025-26, finishing past successful 18th spot with conscionable 26 points, though they should not beryllium overly disappointed fixed their 2 seasons successful the apical formation came aft 13 years successful the 2nd tier.

The German broadside person been precise progressive this summertime having already played 4 friendlies, each of which they emerged arsenic winners in.

While it is hard to gauge however performances successful friendlies mightiness construe to competitory football, fans volition beryllium heartened by the information the squad person scored 15 times successful pre-season truthful far, though they did concede 5 goals.

Boss Marcel Rapp was appointed astatine the extremity of 2025-26 aft the dismissal of Alexander Blessin, who had been successful complaint of the nine since 2024. 

St Pauli person ne'er faced Bournemouth, but they did play English nine Coventry City successful an August 2025 friendly, settling for a 2-2 stalemate.

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Team News

Bournemouth attacker Justin Kluivert should beryllium capable to play a relation during the lucifer aft helium returned from the World Cup earlier this week.

Goalkeeper Will Dennis whitethorn diagnostic down a backmost 4 marshalled by cardinal defenders Veljko Milosavljevic and Bafode Diakite.

While Scott has been linked with a determination to the likes of Chelsea, helium is portion of Rose's squad, and helium whitethorn beryllium fixed minutes adjacent Lewis Cook successful a treble pivot.

St Pauli person often utilized a three-man defence this summer, truthful possibly they volition tract the likes of Marcus Mathisen, Tomoya Ando and David Nemeth connected Friday.

Mathias Rasmussen is an enactment to play successful the mediate of the transportation adjacent to Branimir Hrgota, and the brace could look down a beforehand 3 of Martijn Kaars, Scott Banks and Abdoulie Ceesay.

Bournemouth imaginable starting lineup:

Dennis; Araujo, Milosavljevic, Diakite, Truffert; Scott, Cook; Doak, Kroupi, Kluivert; Rodriguez

St Pauli imaginable starting lineup:

Voll; Mathisen, Nemeth, Ando; Pyrka, Rasmussen, Hrgota, Oppie; Ceesay, Banks; Kaars

We say: Bournemouth 1-3 St Pauli

Bournemouth are acold down St Pauli successful their mentation for 2026-27, truthful it would not beryllium astonishing if they made galore changes astatine fractional time.

While the Cherries undoubtedly person immense quality, their opponents are apt to beryllium considerably sharper, and that could yet beryllium decisive.

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