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BVB with excellent recent record against Wolfsburg
Match facts
- BVB have kept clean sheets in their previous six Bundesliga meetings with Wolfsburg – a feat they have not managed against any other Bundesliga team.
- Borussia have won seven of their past 10 away games in Wolfsburg, including the last four in a row.
- The Black & Yellows took the lead in nine of those 10 away matches and scored 25 goals in total.
- Dortmund have the significantly superior overall head-to-head record, with 26 wins and nine defeats. The spoils have been shared on 10 occasions too.
- The Wolves have never lost five consecutive home games against a single opponent in their top-flight history.
VfL Wolfsburg facts
- The men from Lower Saxony are unbeaten in seven matches (W4 D3).
- However, VfL have won only one of their last five Bundesliga home games – a 4-0 victory over Mainz on 23 February.
- Wolfsburg have scored as many goals in their nine matches since the winter break as they did in the entire first half of the season (18).
- Renato Steffen's five goals this term have all come in this calendar year – no other Wolfsburg player has scored as many goals as him since Christmas.
- Not one player from the current VfL squad has a positive Bundesliga record in matches against BVB.
Borussia Dortmund facts
- BVB have taken 24 out of a possible 27 points in the second half of the season. Only Bayern have more (25).
- Only in the 2011/12 title-winning season did BVB have a better record after nine matches in the second half-season (25 points that season).
- New club records have been set: 72 goals in the opening 26 Bundesliga rounds and 31 goals in nine games in the second half of the season.
- Borussia have emerged victorious from three of their last four Bundesliga away games.
- Roman Bürki has won seven of his eight Bundesliga appearances against Wolfsburg in a BVB shirt (one draw) and conceded only three goals in those eight games. (br)