Dortmund vs Hoffenheim prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2024-02-24 16:30.
After their midweek trip to Eindhoven (D 1-1), Borussia Dortmund return to Bundesliga action looking to extend their unbeaten domestic run to nine games (W4, D4). Keeping their grip on a top-four berth is the aim for the Black and Yellows, who find themselves in a scrap with RB Leipzig and Stuttgart for the final two UEFA Champions League spots, assuming that Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen’s form doesn’t fall off a cliff.
Scoring six goals across back-to-back home league victories ahead of this encounter will serve to boost Dortmund hopes, although boss Edin Terzić has had to settle for 1-0 wins in three of his five personal H2Hs against upcoming opponents Hoffenheim (W4, D1). If those triumphs are not enough to raise home spirits, perhaps the fact that they’re unbeaten in all nine league outings at Signal Iduna Park this term against sides beginning this round outside the top six will be (W7, D2).
Hoffenheim fell to an eighth straight winless Bundesliga match with a 1-0 loss at Union Berlin last weekend (D4, L4). That sequence has scuppered their earlier dreams of European qualification, unless they can turn their form around quickly in order to make up what is a yawning six-point gap to sixth-placed Eintracht Frankfurt ahead of this weekend.
A failure to keep clean sheets has held Hoffenheim back, with the club failing to shut out any of their last 18 opponents – a streak that began with a 3-1 defeat to Dortmund which forms part of a rather bleak six-game losing run of competitive H2Hs. An even heavier scoreline here would surprise few, not least because Hoffenheim have conceded at least twice in all league matches this season against current top-six teams (W1, L5).
Players to watch: Dortmund veteran Marco Reus has scored in both competitive meetings against Hoffenheim this campaign, and each of his last three H2H goals have been decisive in victory. Trying to outdo him will be Andrej Kramarić, whose consolation in the reverse fixture was his ninth Bundesliga H2H goal against Dortmund – his second-highest total against a single opponent after Hertha Berlin (G12).
Hot stat: Only Augsburg (none) have kept fewer than Hoffenheim’s single clean sheet in league action this term.