Dortmund vs Union Berlin prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2023-10-06 13:30.
Borussia Dortmund could end this matchday on top of the Bundesliga should they beat Union Berlin and other results go their way but they’ll need to find the cutting edge that was lacking in Wednesday’s 0-0 draw against AC Milan in Europe. Their league form is more encouraging (W4, D2), a run largely down to fast starts, with Edin Terzić’s side scoring within the opening 20 minutes in three of the last four of those fixtures.
He said there was “room for improvement” following BVB’s 3-1 win over Hoffenheim in their last Bundesliga outing and the boss will be looking for more precision and better build-up play to extend an 18-match unbeaten home league run (W15, D3). That sequence includes last term’s 2-1 H2H win here, part of a perfect home H2H record against the side from the capital (W6).
It would take a brave person to stake much on Union breaking their duck here, as following Tuesday’s last-gasp 3-2 UEFA Champions League defeat to Braga, they’ve lost each of their last six competitive fixtures. Three times during that run they conceded after the 85th minute and they sit in the bottom half following four straight Bundesliga defeats (W2, L4).
That’s their worst six-game start since their first season in the Bundesliga in 2019/20 and they’ve never lost five top-flight games in a row, so there’s plenty riding on the Iron Ones finding a result here. But as they’ve won just one of their last five Bundesliga road games (L4) and never done so here (L4), it seems a tall order for the side that finished fourth last term.
Key battle: Defender Mats Hummels equalled Michael Zorc’s club record of 206 wins for Dortmund against Hoffenheim, and after scoring twice against Freiburg in September, he’s picked up bookings in each of his last two games. Trying to prevent him making that record his own, Robin Gosens has netted three goals before the 35th minute across Union’s last three league away fixtures.
Hot stat: Union’s league away games have featured a Bundesliga-low two second-half goals in total this term.