Match facts ahead of #BMGBVB

Everything you need to know as Borussia Gladbach welcome Borussia Dortmund to BORUSSIA-PARK on Saturday evening (kick off 18:30 CEST).

Spectators

• Under current regulations brought about due to Coronavirus, Borussia are currently allowed to permit 25,000 spectators to their home games. The BORUSSIA-PARK is almost sold out, ahead of Saturday’s game.
• Fans attending the stadium must be able to provide proof of vaccination, recovery or a negative test result in order to enter the ground.

Head-to-head record

• The two teams will meet for the 99th time in the Bundesliga. To date, Dortmund have won 40 times, with Gladbach coming out on top on 30 occasions. The other 28 clashes ended in a draw.
• The Foals ended a run of 11 losses against Dortmund at the start of the calendar year, when Nico Elvedi (2), Ramy Bensebaini and Marcus Thuram fired Gladbach to a 4-2 win at BORUSSIA-PARK.
• There has not been a goalless draw in this fixture since April 1994 – a run of 51 games. The fixture has an average of 3.34 goals per game.

Statistics – presented by UNIBET

• Gladbach’s start to the campaign is the club’s second worst in the past ten seasons. The only worse start came under Lucian Favre in 2015/16, when the Foals kicked off the season with five straight defeats.
• At Frankfurt in 2018/19, Adi Hütter had almost the exact same record after five games as now: four points, 6-9 goal difference, 15th place. Now: four points, 5-9 goal difference, 15th place. The turn in fortunes began on Matchday 6 with a 4-1 win over Hannover.
• Nico Elvedi has won 79 percent of his duels this season, followed directly by Matthias Ginter (72 percent). The Bundesliga’s most impressive centre-back pairing when it comes to duels comes up against Erling Haaland, who has scored 48 goals in 47 Bundesliga games.
• BVB are the team with the most possession (60 percent), with the Foals in fourth place with 56 percent. The two sides also have the best pass completion in the league (both on 87 percent). Dortmund have transformed this into 15 goals so far this season, while Gladbach have only found the back of the net four times.
• Dortmund have won four of their opening five games for the twelfth time. On the other eleven seasons, they went on to finish in the top four.
• Only FC Bayern (29) have scored more goals than Dortmund (17) this season. Only two teams have had more shots on goal than BVB (82) and created more big chances that Sunday’s visitors (10).

Social Media

• Fans can follow the match on social media using the hashtag #BMGBVB or by following Borussia’s English-language accounts on Twitter and Facebook.