Delightful dogfight as daring Borussia Mönchengladbach duel with determined Eintracht Frankfurt

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Competition: Germany Bundesliga
Competition: Wed 15.December
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion im BORUSSIA-PARK (54057 seats)

Stadium regulars at Stadion im BORUSSIA-PARK haven’t watched many home wins this season, with Borussia Mönchengladbach rotting in the 13th place. The opposing Eintracht Frankfurt will believe to protect their higher league place in this match.

Insights:
  • Borussia Mönchengladbach haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Borussia Mönchengladbach form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stadion im BORUSSIA-PARK as Borussia Mönchengladbach have scored 12 goals to get 14 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Bundesliga are 4-2-1 (wins-draws-losses). Borussia Mönchengladbach has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager Hütter and the players.

Borussia Mönchengladbach lost their last game at RB Leipzig (placed 7th) after a 1-4 scoreline. Sommer had a busy but productive day in the RB Leipzig match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented. The forward Lars Stindl won the honour of being "man of the match" for Mönchengladbach with a rating of 7.32/10. Stindl dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 31 successful passes (of 37 total).

Preceding that match was a defeat to SC Freiburg (0-6).

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Mönchengladbach have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won two times, drawn zero and lost two.

There will be little rest for Mönchengladbach after this match as they are travelling to TSG Hoffenheim for a Bundesliga game in only three days.

The Borussia Mönchengladbach fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 12 goals in 7 league matches. Borussia Mönchengladbach have conceded 10 in these home matches.

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Eintracht Frankfurt form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Bundesliga.

Impressive finishing from Sow, Lindstrøm, Jakić, Tuta and N'Dicka secured the home win 5-2 against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in their previous game. Eintracht Frankfurt can call themselves comeback kings after the match against Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Buried deep in trouble at 0-2, the troops rallied and completely turned the match around to a 5-2 victory. Sow scored the final goal. A bizarre fixture with plenty of goals last time out for Eintracht, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that game, will this fixture be as much fun? Defender Evan N'Dicka was the best team player with a rating of 8.5. N'Dicka scored one goal and won 10 of 11 duels.

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Fenerbahce.

We have checked recent matches where Eintracht have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those ten games were four victories, two draws and four defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Mainz 05 in just three days.

Eintracht are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 12 times in 8 away games so far. In the opposite end, Eintracht Frankfurt have conceded 14 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Mönchengladbach four wins, four draws and Eintracht Frankfurt two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MönchengladbachJ. Hofmann
J. Hofmann
7 goals
Borussia MönchengladbachA. Pléa
A. Pléa
3 goals
Eintracht FrankfurtF. Kostić
F. Kostić
3 goals

Borussia Mönchengladbach missing players

Eintracht Frankfurt missing players

Borussia Mönchengladbach Eintracht Frankfurt
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 1 Played P 2 8 15
5 4 1 Won W 1 3 5
3 2 0 Drew D 1 2 6
7 1 0 Lost L 0 3 4
19 12 2 Scored S 3 12 23
28 10 1 Conceded C 2 14 22
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
80% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 93%
60% 57% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 47%
47% 43% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 20%
20% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 20%
60% 57% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 80%
13% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 13%
27% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 13%
 
4.9 5.6 9 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4 5.1
4.2 3.6 1 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.5 5.3
2.1 2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.4 1.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
15.6 17.9 16 Shots (avg) S ( 13.5 12 13.4
5 5.4 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.1 4.1
25% 32% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 36% 37%
 
12.4 11.6 12 Shots against (avg) S A 17 16.2 12.9
5.2 4.4 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 1.5 5.4 4.5
Key stats in Bundesliga this season:
  • All of Eintracht Frankfurt's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Borussia Mönchengladbach haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bayern München 15 12 1 2 47 16 8 7 0 1 25 6 7 5 1 1 22 10 31 37
2 Borussia Dortmund 15 10 1 4 36 23 8 7 0 1 23 12 7 3 1 3 13 11 13 31
3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 15 8 3 4 37 24 7 4 0 3 17 12 8 4 3 1 20 12 13 27
4 TSG Hoffenheim 15 8 2 5 32 23 7 5 1 1 17 7 8 3 1 4 15 16 9 26
5 SC Freiburg 15 7 4 4 26 15 7 3 2 2 11 8 8 4 2 2 15 7 11 25
6 FC Union Berlin 15 6 5 4 22 21 8 5 2 1 12 8 7 1 3 3 10 13 1 23
7 RB Leipzig 15 6 3 6 29 19 8 6 0 2 25 10 7 0 3 4 4 9 10 21
8 Mainz 05 15 6 3 6 21 16 8 4 3 1 14 5 7 2 0 5 7 11 5 21
9 Eintracht Frankfurt 15 5 6 4 23 22 7 2 4 1 11 8 8 3 2 3 12 14 1 21
10 Bochum 15 6 2 7 16 23 7 4 2 1 10 5 8 2 0 6 6 18 -7 20
11 Wolfsburg 15 6 2 7 15 22 8 3 1 4 6 11 7 3 1 3 9 11 -7 20
12 Köln 15 4 7 4 23 25 8 4 3 1 17 11 7 0 4 3 6 14 -2 19
13 Borussia Mönchengladbach 15 5 3 7 19 28 7 4 2 1 12 10 8 1 1 6 7 18 -9 18
14 Hertha BSC 15 5 3 7 17 29 7 3 2 2 9 7 8 2 1 5 8 22 -12 18
15 Stuttgart 15 4 5 6 22 25 8 3 2 3 16 13 7 1 3 3 6 12 -3 17
16 Augsburg 15 4 4 7 16 25 7 3 1 3 11 14 8 1 3 4 5 11 -9 16
17 Arminia Bielefeld 15 1 7 7 10 22 8 0 5 3 6 13 7 1 2 4 4 9 -12 10
18 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 15 1 1 13 13 46 7 1 1 5 7 15 8 0 0 8 6 31 -33 4

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