Borussia Dortmund will look to go top of the Bundesliga table when they travel to PreZero Arena to take on a struggling Hoffenheim team.
The hosts come into this tie without a win in 12 league games (D2, L10) despite sacking their manager and replacing him with Pellegrino Matarazzo. The new boss has overseen two losses in his first two games in charge of the Sinsheim club.
He will hope that the third time’s the charm against title-chasing Borussia Dortmund even though they have recorded eight defeats in their last nine Bundesliga games as pre-match outsiders (W1, L8).
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Yet, they have a good record against Borussia Dortmund, having drawn five of the last nine home H2Hs (W2, D5, L2), albeit without a clean sheet. But the visitors will fancy their chances here, given that they have won their last eight games in all competitions since the restart.
Their 4-1 demolition of Hertha Berlin last weekend left them tied on points with Union Berlin and bitter rivals Bayern Munich in the top three of the Bundesliga standings. And with the other title-chasers playing each other on Sunday, Dortmund will provisionally go top of the league with a victory.
Given that they are the only side across Europe’s top-ten-ranked leagues to have won every one of their competitive matches this calendar year, they will fancy their chances of extending Hoffenheim’s run of six straight home games with at least two goals conceded. Meanwhile, a league-high eight (73%) of Hoffeinheim’s eleven home league games this season saw both teams score, so we can expect a high-scoring affair of over 2.5 goals and both teams to score.
