Current form Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund has given us lies. We did not expect a victory for BVB last weekend in Cologne, but Peter Stöger’s team had something against it. Andre Schürrle fixed with his goal in the 84th minute of the game full success, thus ensuring that in the camp of the CL aspirant returns a little more peace. The victory against the bottom of the table was quite a sign. Above all, a sign of morality, of will and of full commitment. Even though they gave away a lead twice, Dortmund did not get stuck and continued to play forwards. The main reason for the “threesome” against the bottom was not Andre Schürrle, but new signing Michy Batshuayi, who in his first game equaled a double and made Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang so forgotten. The victory in Cologne also meant the continuation of a now very appealing series: Since six games Dortmund is unbeaten, has therefore lost under the new coach still no match: In addition to the victory against Cologne defeated Mainz (2: 0) and Hoffenheim ( 2: 1) and got one point each against Wolfsburg (0: 0), Hertha BSC (1: 1) and SC Freiburg (2: 2). That the latter was particularly valuable, also showed the fact that Freiburg even Bayer Leverkusen drew a draw. The Stoeger team has generally been on the offensive in recent weeks. After scoring just one goal in two matches, they were equal to five in the last two games. Overall, they have scored two or more goals in four of their six appearances under Peter Stöger. Hope makes before the duel with the HSV in Torausbeute also the fact that on Saturday is a home game on the program, after all, were scored in 10 home games by 5 more hits than in 11 away appearances. Thus Dortmund holds in a cut of exactly 2.5 hits per match in Signal Iduna Park. In Cologne, we especially saw the fast switching game of BVB, and three goals in a total of 7 finals are a very good ratio. That Dortmund, however, also convincingly convinced, proves a duel rate of 52 percent, an important insight before the next game against a relegation candidate. Overall, Dortmund have lost just one of the last 5 home games, another indicator that it continues on Saturday up. Also, if with Schmelzer, Durm, Rode, Philipp, Yarmolenko and finally also Sancho, especially on the offensive, some alternatives will be missing.
Current form Hamburger SV
Not only Borussia Dortmund is unbeaten under his “new” coach, also on the HSV this is true. Of course, Bernd Hollerbach is still significantly “newer” than his counterpart. Two games were completed under his aegis so far, in both hands it was enough for a 1-1 draw against RB Leipzig and Hannover 96th Results that certainly make hope for improvement, but not allow too large jumps. Nevertheless, only for the third time this season succeeded the Dino of the German Bundesliga, in two games in a row to score at least one goal. By contrast, two goals in the last 4 games still do not suggest an enormously powerful offensive. Accordingly difficult it should be away against BVB. However, as we all know, he conceded 2 goals in the last duel in front of his own team against Freiburg. The overall balance of the Hamburger reads nevertheless extremely bad: The relegation candidate has been without success for eight games, moreover, the last two victories against Hoffenheim (3: 0) and VFB Stuttgart (3: 1) were celebrated in front of their own audience. In total, there are already 7 defeats away from home, the first and only victory in foreign countries dates from 25th of August 2017. Unsurprisingly, Hamburg is one of the weakest away teams in the entire German Bundesliga. In addition, you have collected in 10 away games by 6 more hits than at home, overall it was their 18. Also, it was enough in 4 of the last 8 games not for their own goal, more than one goal could never be achieved in these cases. Before the two draws mentioned lost against Cologne (0: 2), Augsburg (0: 1) and Gladbach (1: 3) and thus against those opponents, against which Dortmund could win last. Against Hannover one was after all very dangerous with standards, could book no less than 8 degrees after just such. From the game we see only a few possibilities, as the HSV one of the top 4 teams in the Bundesliga should pose problems. The fact is: In the previous 5 duels with the current top 4 of the Bundesliga, it was enough for Hamburg only a single point, the goal difference was with 1:10 thereby inferior. With Papadopoulos also an absolute weapon is missing with standards locked, also Jung, Thoelke, Müller and Schipplock are not available. In addition, Hamburg has won none of the last 4 clashes with Dortmund, also achieved a total of only 2 goals.
PREDICTION: Dortmund win @ 1.42