Soccer match preview: Borussia Dortmund confident before travelling to DSC Arminia Bielefeld

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Competition: Germany Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 23.October
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: SchücoArena (27300 seats)

Playing at home feels comfortable and friendly for DSC Arminia Bielefeld, but Borussia Dortmund are fully intent and able to win. What will the score be?

Insights:
  • DSC Arminia Bielefeld have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Bundesliga
  • Borussia Dortmund have the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Bundesliga

Borussia Dortmund could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Champions League game only four sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Ajax. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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DSC Arminia Bielefeld form and stats

DSC Arminia Bielefeld, who have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Bundesliga, have played 4 Bundesliga games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-3-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Bielefeld shared the glory with Augsburg in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Defender Jacob Laursen got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.71/10. Laursen scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 7 of 12 duels.

Preceding that match was the home game against Bayer Leverkusen that was lost 0-4.

The manager F. Kramer will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Mainz 05 in only three days.

Bielefeld has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 4 games. Bielefeld's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 5 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Borussia Dortmund form and stats

Borussia Dortmund are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Bundesliga, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).

It might be tough going out on the road again for Borussia, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-4 versus Ajax. Borussia Dortmund lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Mats Hummels was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.55. The defender Hummels hit one key pass and won 6 of 11 duels.

Before that, Borussia secured a home win against Mainz 05 with the score 3-1.

After this away game Borussia return home for a DFB Pokal game against Ingolstadt. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The travelling fans enjoy Borussia's attacking play in away games, having scored 5 goals in 3 league matches away. For Borussia Dortmund, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Bielefeld victories, three draws and five Borussia Dortmund wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Borussia DortmundE. Håland
E. Håland
9 goals
Borussia DortmundR. Guerreiro
R. Guerreiro
3 goals
Borussia DortmundJ. Brandt
J. Brandt
2 goals

DSC Arminia Bielefeld missing players

Borussia Dortmund missing players

DSC Arminia Bielefeld Borussia Dortmund
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
8 4 2 Played P 0 3 8
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 6
5 3 1 Drew D 0 0 0
3 1 1 Lost L 0 2 2
4 1 0 Scored S 0 5 22
11 5 4 Conceded C 0 6 14
75% 50% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
62% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 88%
25% 25% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 67% 88%
25% 25% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 62%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 50%
50% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 88%
25% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
50% 75% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 12%
 
3.5 3.8 3 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.7 5.1
5.6 5.8 6.5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 3.8
1.6 2.2 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3.7 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
11.2 11.2 11 Shots (avg) S ( 0 14.3 15.8
2.6 2 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 5.9
19% 12% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 42% 47%
Key stats in Bundesliga this season:
  • Borussia Dortmund have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Borussia Dortmund have scored more than double the goals of DSC Arminia Bielefeld.
  • Borussia Dortmund have the most scored goals in the second half (14) in Bundesliga
  • Borussia Dortmund haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • DSC Arminia Bielefeld have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • DSC Arminia Bielefeld have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Bundesliga
  • DSC Arminia Bielefeld have yet to win a game.

  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 8 6 1 1 29 8 4 3 0 1 16 4 4 3 1 0 13 4 21 19
2 Borussia Dortmund 8 6 0 2 22 14 5 5 0 0 17 8 3 1 0 2 5 6 8 18
3 Bayer Leverkusen 8 5 1 2 21 12 4 2 0 2 9 9 4 3 1 0 12 3 9 16
4 Freiburg 8 4 4 0 12 6 4 2 2 0 7 3 4 2 2 0 5 3 6 16
5 Union Berlin 8 4 3 1 12 9 5 3 2 0 6 2 3 1 1 1 6 7 3 15
6 Wolfsburg 8 4 1 3 9 10 4 2 1 1 4 4 4 2 0 2 5 6 -1 13
7 Köln 8 3 3 2 13 14 4 3 1 0 9 4 4 0 2 2 4 10 -1 12
8 RB Leipzig 8 3 2 3 16 8 4 3 0 1 14 4 4 0 2 2 2 4 8 11
9 Hoffenheim 8 3 2 3 17 11 4 2 1 1 10 5 4 1 1 2 7 6 6 11
10 Borussia M'gladbach 8 3 2 3 10 11 4 2 2 0 6 3 4 1 0 3 4 8 -1 11
11 Mainz 05 8 3 1 4 8 8 4 2 1 1 5 2 4 1 0 3 3 6 0 10
12 Stuttgart 8 2 3 3 13 14 4 2 0 2 11 8 4 0 3 1 2 6 -1 9
13 Hertha BSC 8 3 0 5 10 21 3 1 0 2 4 5 5 2 0 3 6 16 -11 9
14 Eintracht Frankfurt 8 1 5 2 9 12 4 0 3 1 3 4 4 1 2 1 6 8 -3 8
15 Bochum 8 2 1 5 5 16 3 1 1 1 3 3 5 1 0 4 2 13 -11 7
16 Augsburg 8 1 3 4 4 14 4 1 1 2 3 9 4 0 2 2 1 5 -10 6
17 DSC Arminia Bielefeld 8 0 5 3 4 11 4 0 3 1 1 5 4 0 2 2 3 6 -7 5
18 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 8 0 1 7 5 20 4 0 1 3 2 7 4 0 0 4 3 13 -15 1

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