BVB focusing on a 3rd straight victory

Borussia Dortmund will try to say a 3rd consecutive win once they face Ruhr rivals Bochum in Sunday’s derby at Sign Iduna Park.

Borussia Dortmund

Dortmund are making ready to play their first house sport of 2024 after starting the 12 months with two comfy away victories. Edin Terzic’s facet eased to a 3-0 win over Darmstadt, earlier than they cruised to a 4-0 victory towards Köln final weekend because of a Donyell Malen brace in addition to targets from Niclas Fullkrug and Youssoufa Moukoko.

Regardless of claiming consecutive victories, Dortmund are at the moment sitting outdoors the highest 4 in fifth place. Nevertheless, they are going to transfer above fourth-placed RB Leipzig in the event that they take at the least some extent from Sunday’s contest.

Whereas they are going to seeking to declare most factors, Dortmund’s latest house type suggests which may be simpler mentioned than performed. Die Schwarzgelben have gained simply one in all their earlier 4 house league video games.

Though they’ve been held to 1-1 attracts of their final two matches towards Bochum, Dortmund have managed to keep away from defeat of their final 4 aggressive head-to-head conferences.

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Julian Ryerson, Julien Duranville, Karim Adeyemi and Felix Nmecha are all dominated out via damage. Sebastien Haller is representing the Ivory Coast on the Africa Cup of Nations, whereas Ramy Bensebaini stays unavailable regardless of Algeria’s group stage elimination.

In the meantime, Terzic has revealed that Gregor Kobel and Julian Brandt are each doubts attributable to sickness.

Bochum

Thomas Letsch’s facet have skilled a optimistic begin to the calendar 12 months, having taken 4 factors from their first two matches of 2024. They returned from the winter break with a 1-1 draw towards Werder Bremen, earlier than they edged out Stuttgart of their most up-to-date outing. Matu Bero’s striker proved sufficient to sentence die Schwaben to a 1-0 defeat and lengthen Bochum’s unbeaten house run to 6 league matches (W3, D3).

Whereas they’ve loved success on house turf, 14th-placed Bochum have struggled to copy that form of type on their travels, having gained simply one in all their 9 Bundesliga away video games. They’ve failed to attain in 5 of these 9 away matches, whereas they’ve conceded a complete of 24 league targets on the highway this season – solely Darmstadt have let in additional away targets within the prime flight.

After failing to win their final 4 head-to-head conferences with no victory, Bochum will likely be seeking to beat Dortmund for the primary time since they got here from 3-2 all the way down to win 4-3 in April 2022.

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The guests are unable to name upon the injured trio of Michael Esser, Keven Schlotterbeck and Mohammed Tolba, whereas Danilo Soares is a doubt for Sunday’s contest. Takuma Asano is at the moment on worldwide responsibility, whereas Bernardo is suspended attributable to an accumulation of yellow playing cards.

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