Seven of Dortmund’s eight away victories in Berlin have come this millennium. Can BVB add to this successful run? The Black and Yellows play at Hertha this Saturday. Here are the facts about the fixture.

Head to Head Record

  • BVB have only lost one of their last five away games 'an der Spree'. Hertha won the fixture 1-0 last season. The winning goal that day is the only goal Hertha have scored in their last 5 home games against Borussia.
  • Hertha have conceded 103 goals against Borussia Dortmund in their history. Only two other teams have also managed to score more than 100 goals in total against Hertha: Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen.
  • Nobody has been sent off in the last 25 games between these two teams. The last player to suffer this fate was Hertha's current trainer Pal Dardai on 14 April 2001.

Facts about Hertha

  • Hertha have only lost one of their last eight games (match-day 14, 0-2 against Bayern Munich) and have already collected 34 points. That's almost double the amount they had collected by this point last season (18).
  • The Berliners are unbeaten in their last four home games (three victories, one draw). The last and only home defeat this season came on 31 october 2015, 1-4 against Gladbach (match-day 11).
  • Hertha have lost none of their last 22 games in which they took a 1-0 lead. The last time they lost after taking such a lead was on 30 August 2014, 2-4 at Leverkusen.

Facts about Borussia

  • BVB have won 5 of their last 6 games and have already won more times this season (14 times) than they did in the entire 2014/15 season (13 times).
  • Only Bayern Munich have won more away games this season than Borussia Dortmund (7 victories to 6 respectively).
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First goal against Hertha: Erik Durm (l.). Last goal against Hertha: Neven Subotic (r.)

Facts about Players

  • Erik Durm scored his only Bundesliga goal against the Berliners (9 May 2015, in a 2-0 victory).
  • Henrikh Mkhitaryan assisted 3 of BVB's 5 goals against Hertha in the 2015 calendar year.
  • Moritz Leitner and Neven Subotic both scored their last goal at Hertha. Leitner scored on 3 October 2014 for VfB Stuttgart, while Subotic scored on 9 May 2015.

Compiled by Boris Rupert