Match facts ahead of #BOCBMG

Everything you need to know ahead of the upcoming Bundesliga away game against VfL Bochum on Friday, 18th March at 20:30 CET.

Spectators

• Thanks to new Coronavirus regulations, 25,000 fans will be allowed to tomorrow’s mach at the Vonovia Ruhrstadion.
• 2,500 tickets are now available for away fans.

Head-to-head-record

• This will be the 66th meeting between VfL Bochum and Borussia in the Bundesliga. Gladbach have the better record, having won 25 times to date, whilst this Friday’s hosts have recorded 19 victories (plus 21 draws).
• In the previous 65 matches between these two sides, there have been an average of 3.08 goals scored per game.
• Borussia’s 2-1 home win in the reverse fixture was their first victory over Bochum in 15 Bundesliga games (previously D7, L8).
• Bochum are currently unbeaten in their last nine Bundesliga home games against the Foals.
• Borussia’s last win at Bochum in the top flight came 27 years ago, a 2-0 victory on 25th March 1995.
• The two sides faced off in the 2010/11 relegation play-off. Borussia won 1-0 at home thanks to an Igor De Camargo goal in injury time. Bochum, the second-division team back then, went 1-0 up in the second leg via an own goal by Havard Nordtveit (24’), before Marco Reus equalised to preserve Gladbach’s top-flight status (72’).

Statistics – presented by UNIBET

• Borussia can leapfrog Bochum in the table with a win. This would mark the first time since the end of November that Gladbach are above VfL.
• Gladbach’s top goalscorer Alassane Plea is back to his best in 2022. The French attacker has had a hand in seven goals across the last six Bundesliga games (3 goals, 4 assists) – only Leipzig’s Christopher Nkunku has been directly involved in more goals during this period (8).
• Plea was the match-winner in the reverse fixture, opening the scoring and then assisting Jonas Hofmann’s goal.
• Bochum have conceded three own goals over their last four Bundesliga games. The last own goal by a Borussia player was over four years ago, Jannik Vestergaard scoring at the wrong end on 9th December 2017 against Schalke.
• Christopher Kramer was on loan at VfL Bochum from Leverkusen from 2011 to 2013 (scored four goals in 61 second-division games).
• VfL Bochum have collected 75% of their points at home this season (24 of 32).
• In 13 home games, Bochum have scored twice as many goals and conceded half as many as they have in their 13 away matches.
• 11 of Bochum’s 28 goals this season have been from set pieces – only Freiburg are more reliant on dead balls.
• All of Bochum’s last four goals have come from set pieces (every VfL goal since matchday 23).

Officials

• Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the DFL will announce the officials on the day of the game.

Social Media

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