Huge Match for Koln and Dortmund
This week’s Friday night match in the Bundesliga is an intriguing encounter between Koln and Borussia Dortmund.
The hosts come into this match sitting bottom of the table, as they have done for much of the season. They are 7 points adrift of safety but are clinging on to the hope they can move off the bottom and give themselves a chance of survival.
Borussia Dortmund make the short trip to the Rhein Energie Stadion knowing they need to win this match to keep the pressure on the teams inside the top four. They start the game in 6th place but a win could see them move up to second in the table.
Trends show Koln are undefeated in their last four Bundesliga matches, winning three and drawing one. Despite having a dreadful first half of the campaign, this run of positive results will give them some belief they can perform a miracle and escape relegation.
The main improvements for Koln have come in attack and while they have only scored 6 goals in their last four league games, that amounts for 40% of their total Bundesliga goals this season. Koln have also conceded just 2 goals in their last four league games and will be aiming to continue these improvements against Borussia Dortmund.
At home this season, Koln have won just two games but both have come in recent weeks.
Borussia Dortmund are still struggling to find any consistency this season and while they have remained undefeated in their last five Bundesliga games, they have failed to win the last three. There have been draws at home with Wolfsburg and Freiburg and away to Hertha Berlin.
Despite remaining undefeated in their last five league games, Borussia Dortmund have won two of their last thirteen Bundesliga games.
However, trends show they have been performing better away from home and Borussia Dortmund have lost only two of their last twelve away matches in the Bundesliga.
Scoring goals has not been a problem for Borussia Dortmund on the road this season and they have scored in each of their last eight away league games, failing to score only once away from home in Germany this season.
The issue has been in defence and Borussia Dortmund have conceded in six of their last seven away Bundesliga games, including 2 goals at Eintracht Frankfurt, 2 at Stuttgart and 4 at Hannover.
Team news and Koln will be without the injured quarter of Leonardo Bittencourt, Marcel Risse, Jhon Cordoba and Marco Hoger.
Borussia Dortmund continue to have injury problems with Marco Reus, Sebastian Rode, Max Philipp, Raphael Guerreiro, Marcel Schmeltzer, Eric Durm and Andriy Yarmolenko on the treatment table.
This match is huge for both teams as they continue their quests at the bottom and top of the table respectively. Neither team has tasted defeat recently in the Bundesliga and could come out of this game with that record intact, with both finding the back of the net.
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