Match facts ahead of #TSGBMG
All the important facts and stats your need to know ahead of the Foals’ Bundesliga away game at TSG Hoffenheim on Saturday (15:30 CET kick-off).
Spectators
- Under the current coronavirus regulations in Baden-Württemberg, a maximum of 750 spectators are allowed at the PreZero in Sinheim. Due to the low capacity, no away tickets have been made available.
Head-to-head record
- Saturday’s game with be the 27th top-flight meeting between TSG and Borussia. The head-to-head record is in the Kraichgau club’s favour, winning nine games compared to the Foals’ tally of seven. Ten of the match-ups have ended in draws.
- Both clubs have maintained their top-flight status since being promoted to the Bundesliga together in 2008. Only four sides are enjoying a longer unbroken spell in Germany’s highest tier (Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg).
- Hoffenheim have only lost one of their last seven Bundesliga games against Mönchengladbach, although that defeat did come at home (3-0 on 28th September 2019).
- The Foals have had relative success in Sinsheim of late, losing just one of their last four matches there (otherwise W2, D1).
Statistics
- Borussia are on a four-match losing run for the first time this Bundesliga season – they last lost five in a row at the start of the 2015/16 campaign.
- Adi Hütter has won all six of his Bundesliga meetings with TSG (as Frankfurt coach) – more victories than the Austrian has recorded against any other top-flight club.
- Matthias Ginter has scored more goals against TSG than against any other club (4, all for Gladbach).
- TSG are the most in-form side across the last five matchdays (W4, D1), climbing from tenth to fourth in the table during that run.
- 16 different players have scored for Hoffenheim this season – a league high and already a new club record.
- Hoffenheim have won each of their last five Bundesliga home games – they last had a run like that across 2017/18 and 2018/19 under Julian Nagelsmann.
Referee
- Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the DFB will announce the officials on the day of the game.
Social media
- Fans can follow the game on social media by using the hashtag #TSGBMG, or by following Borussia’s English language accounts on Twitter and Facebook.