Pre-Match Report
BVB versus Hoffenheim: the facts on Sunday's match
The scenario: Sixth against fourteenth. Hoffenheim have only won one of their last six Bundesliga games. BVB have drawn their last two matches (at home to Bayern and away to Gladbach).
Home & away: Borussia Dortmund have won eight of their most recent home games in the Bundesliga this season, last losing on home soil in the league at the beginning of April (a 1-0 defeat to Stuttgart), and currently have the best home record. All three of TSG's wins this season have come at home. The team is still winless away from home. Never before have Hoffenheim had to wait so long for their first away win in a Bundesliga season. In 2023/24, TSG picked up 16 out of a possible 18 points from their first six away matches.
Head-to-head record: Borussia Dortmund have won five of their previous six Bundesliga matches against Hoffenheim (home and away), but the record against TSG in the last six matches at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK is even (two wins, two draws, two defeats). Only one of the 32 Bundesliga encounters between the two clubs to date has ended 0-0 (on 28 February 2009 in Dortmund).
Statistics: The Black & Yellows have only failed to score in one match so far: the 0-0 draw in Bremen on Matchday 2. Only Bayern Munich have managed to score in every game this season. No team have conceded more big chances than Hoffenheim. 25 goals conceded after 13 matchdays is the third-highest figure in TSG's Bundesliga history and the highest for 11 years. And this despite the fact that goalkeeper Oliver Baumann has saved by far the most shots of all goalkeepers (14).
Last season: 19 to seven shots on goal, 2.7 to 1.2 xgoals, 10 to three corners and 65% possession for Dortmund; yet the clinical visitors still won. Ihlas Bebou scored after 99 seconds to make it 1-0, but then BVB launched a comeback in front of the 81,365 spectators in a sold-out SIGNAL IDUNA PARK. The score was 2-1 after 25 minutes thanks to goals from Donyell Malen and Nico Schlotterbeck from set-pieces. But Hoffenheim struck back: Maximilian Beier scored in the 61st and 64th minutes to make it 2-2 and then 3-2 to TSG.
Biggest home win: Only two of the Black & Yellows' home wins have come by a two-goal margin. BVB have never won by more than 3-1 at home against Hoffenheim, the last time being on 28 February 2016. Sebastian Rudy put the visitors ahead, before Henrikh Mkhitaryan (80), Adrian Ramos (85) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (90) scored late goals to secure a 3-1 home win.
Compiled by Boris Rupert