Can Dortmund keep their unbeaten begin?

By Ben Sully   @SullyBen

Borussia Dortmund will try to increase their unbeaten begin to the Bundesliga season after they face Hoffenheim on Friday.

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Hoffenheim


Hoffenheim haven’t regarded again since shedding 2-1 to Freiburg on the opening weekend of the Bundesliga season. Since that disappointing outcome, they’ve put collectively a powerful four-game profitable run, which incorporates victories over Heidenheim, Wolfsburg and Koln.


Final weekend, they continued their high quality kind with a 2-0 away victory over Union Berlin because of an Andrej Kramarić penalty and a Maximilian Beier strike. In addition to claiming all three factors, Hoffenheim ended a run of 12 league video games with no clear sheet.

After ending simply three factors off the underside three final time period, die Kraichgauer will probably be happy to be sitting in fifth place after 5 rounds of matches. With Hoffenheim kicking off matchday six, they may transfer to the highest of the desk with a win on Friday. Nonetheless, claiming all three factors might show difficult after failing to win any of their final six matches towards Dortmund (D1, L5). In the event that they have been to emerge victorious from Friday’s encounter, it could symbolize Hoffenheim’s first win over die Schwarzgelben since cruising to a 4-0 away victory in June 2020.

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Bambasé Conté, Dennis Geiger, Marco John and Stanley Nsoki are all dominated out for the hosts by way of damage.

Borussia Dortmund


After shedding their Champions League opener to Paris Saint-Germain, Dortmund bounced again with a slender 1-0 victory towards Wolfsburg final weekend. Marco Reus scored the decisive objective to information Dortmund to their third win of the Bundesliga season, extending their unbeaten run to 13 league matches.

Having taken 11 factors from their 5 league matches, Dortmund head into Friday’s contest in sixth place. Like their opponents, additionally they have the chance to quickly transfer to the highest of the desk with a victory. Die Schwarzgelben will probably be assured about their probabilities of claiming most factors after profitable their final three away conferences with Hoffenheim, together with a 1-0 win of their most up-to-date journey to the PreZero Enviornment.

Nonetheless, their away kind has been inconsistent since Julian Brandt’s objective guided them to a slender win over Hoffenheim in February. Since that outcome, Dortmund have received two, drawn three and misplaced certainly one of their final seven Bundesliga away matches.

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Marcel Sabitzer is ready to overlook a second straight recreation with a groin damage, whereas Dortmund are additionally with out the companies of Mateu Morey and Thomas Meunier.

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