Goals are guaranteed when Borussia Dortmund square off against Hamburg. The Black and Yellows have previously found the net on 176 occasions against the Northeners, who themselves have scored 179 goals against BVB. With 355 goals in total, Borussia Dortmund versus Hamburg is therefore the highest-scoring pairing in Bundesliga history. On Tuesday they will meet for the 100th time.

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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored four times as BVB beat HSV 5-2 earlier in the campaign.

Kick-off: The match will kick off at 20:00 CET on Tuesday evening at a sold-out Signal Iduna Park.

The scenario: Ten places and 17 points currently separate fourth-placed Borussia Dortmund and 14th-placed Hamburg, although both teams have picked up the same amount of points (17) since the winter break – a tally bettered only by Bayern (23). A win for BVB in the 100th Bundesliga meeting between the sides would equal the head-to-head record (35 wins for Dortmund and 36 for Hamburg) and maybe even the goal difference (176-179).

Home/away: Four victories in their last four home games has taken Borussia Dortmund's unbeaten run at Signal Iduna Park to 33 matches. The last defeat at home came exactly two years ago, with Bayern Munich winning 1-0 on 4 April 2015. Hamburg have won only one of their last six matches on the road (a 3-0 victory in Leipzig on 11 February).

Personnel matters: BVB will be without Sokratis (suspended), Schürrle (ankle), Durm (muscular problems), Reus (training following fibre tear), Götze (metabolic disorder), Rode (match fitness following groin operation) and Burnic (ankle) for this one, while doubts surround the involvement of Weigl (thigh) and Schmelzer (back). HSV are without Jung (muscular problems) and Müller (torn medial collateral ligament).

Head-to-head record: This is the highest-scoring pairing in Bundesliga history, with the previous 99 games producing 355 goals. The last 11 meetings alone have yielded 46 goals – over four per game on average. Dortmund are the only club Hamburg have lost to six times away from home in the last eight years, but BVB have been beaten more times by HSV (ten) than any other team since 2006. There have also been 38 penalties awarded in games between the sides – another league record.

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Statistics: BVB have lost only one of their last six matches (a 2-1 defeat in Berlin on 11 March) and, with 55 goals this term, have only been outscored by Bayern Munich (67). HSV are unbeaten in their last four (three wins and a draw) and have lost just one of their last eight, but have only scored more than two goals in a game once all season. Only Darmstadt (51) have conceded more times than Hamburg (47).

Highest home win: Braces from Lothar Emmerich and Wosab and goals from Paul, Peehs and Cyliax handed BVB a 7-0 victory on Matchday 32 of the 1966/67 season. That defeat on 20 May 1967 remains HSV's second-biggest in the Bundesliga.

Attendance: SIGNAL IDUNA PARK is set for a sell-out crowd of 81,360, with 4,500 travelling Hamburg fans expected.

Referee: Markus Schmidt will be officiating a BVB game for the first time in two years. It will be the tenth time the 43-year-old referee from Stuttgart has overseen a Bundesliga match involving Borussia Dortmund. Six of those have ended in victory, two in stalemate and one in defeat.
Compiled by Boris Rupert