Borussia Dortmund II are chasing the top places while Rot-Weiss Essen are more involved in steering clear of relegation. Who will get the points?
- Borussia Dortmund II have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Rot-Weiss Essen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Borussia Dortmund II form and stats
3-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the 3. Liga numbers at home for Borussia Dortmund II so far this season.
An away draw last time out for Borussia Dortmund II, facing Arminia Bielefeld in a game that ended 2-2. No victory last time out for Borussia, but the draw 2-2 felt nice for Elongo-Yombo who came on as a substitute in the 24th minute and scored two goals.
Before that, Borussia Dortmund II drew at home versus Unterhaching.This is expected to be a close game, with Borussia perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Borussia Dortmund II as a small favourite), we find 12 games. Borussia Dortmund II has won 2 of these, drawn 4 and lost 6.
The Borussia Dortmund II fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 6 in 5 matches.
Rot-Weiss Essen form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their 3. Liga travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Rot-Weiss are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
The attacking players of Rot-Weiss Essen have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 181 minutes.
This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Verl with 0-5 on the scoreboard. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Verl was particularly ugly (0-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Prior to that match, the Rot-Weiss Essen manager Dabrowski faced defeat when travelling to Unterhaching and losing 0-4.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Rot-Weiss Essen in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Rot-Weiss Essen, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
The attacking power of Rot-Weiss when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. As for defending, Rot-Weiss Essen rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 8 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Borussia victories, three draws and three Rot-Weiss Essen wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Hettwer 3 goals | R. Elongo-Yombo 2 goals |  P. Besong 2 goals |
Borussia Dortmund II missing players
Rot-Weiss Essen missing players
| Borussia Dortmund II | Rot-Weiss Essen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | 6 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 80% | 80% |
| 60% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 70% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | 50% |
| 30% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 30% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 40% | 40% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | 40% |
| 40% | 40% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 40% |
| 40% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 40% |
| 3.4 | 2.6 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
| 6 | 7.6 | 7.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 5 | 4.9 |
| 2.9 | 3.2 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10.6 | 11.6 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 10.4 | 10 |
| 3.8 | 4.6 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 29% | 26% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 21% | 22% |
| 12.9 | 13.2 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 11.2 | 11.4 |
| 4.3 | 4.2 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.5 | 5.4 | 5 |
- Borussia Dortmund II have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
- Borussia Dortmund II have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Borussia Dortmund II haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Rot-Weiss Essen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dynamo Dresden | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 22 |
| 2 | Ulm | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 20 |
| 3 | Jahn Regensburg | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| 4 | Erzgebirge Aue | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 17 |
| 5 | Viktoria Koln | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 16 |
| 6 | Borussia Dortmund II | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 16 |
| 7 | Preuen Munster | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 8 | Saarbrucken | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 14 |
| 9 | Unterhaching | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 10 | Sandhausen | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
| 11 | Ingolstadt | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 13 |
| 12 | Verl | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 13 | 1860 München | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
| 14 | Waldhof Mannheim | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 12 |
| 15 | Rot-Weiss Essen | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -6 | 12 |
| 16 | VfB Lubeck | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
| 17 | Arminia Bielefeld | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 9 |
| 18 | Freiburg II | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -8 | 8 |
| 19 | Hallescher FC | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -9 | 8 |
| 20 | MSV Duisburg | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -7 | 7 |
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