Match facts ahead of #TSGBMG

Everything you need to know ahead of Saturday’s trip to Hoffenheim (15:30 CET)

Supporters

• Tickets: The PreZero Arena is not quite sold out for the game. Around 3,000 Gladbach fans will be making the trip to Sinsheim to cheer on Farke’s Foals.

Head-to-head record

• This will be the 30th meeting between Hoffenheim and Borussia. Both sides have nine wins to their name and there have been eleven draws.
• Gladbach are three Bundesliga games unbeaten against Saturday’s opponents (D1, W2.). VfL have the chance to make it three wins in a row against Hoffenheim for the first time. 
• In both of the last two meetings between the sides, Borussia have come from a goal down to win the game (5-1, 3-1).
• There have been 102 goals in the previous 29 meetings at an average of 3.52 goals per game. Hoffenheim have scored 46 of them and Gladbach have scored 56. 
• Hoffenheim have only scored more goals against Köln (50) than they have against Gladbach. They have, however, only conceded more goals against Bayern (69) than they have against the Foals.

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• There have been 10 goals in the last two encounters, eight of which have been scored by Gladbach.

Statistics

• Mönchengladbach currently have three more points to their name than they did at this stage last season (2021/22: 19 points after 17 games, 2022/23: 22 points after 17 games).
• Borussia have scored five goals from corners this season- the most of any side.
• Farke’s side haven’t kept a clean sheet since matchday 7, when they beat Leipzig 3-0 at BORUSSIA-PARK
• Hoffenheim collected 19 points in the first half of the season. The last time they picked up fewer was in 2015/16 (13). They are also nine points worse off than they were at this stage last season when they were sat in fifth on 28 points. They are currently in 13th just three points off the relegation play off place. 
• Hoffenheim are without a win in their last seven league matches (L5, D2).
• They also had a ten game winless run in the league from matchday 26 of the 2021/22 season to matchday 1 of this season.

Officials

• The referee for the game is Benjamin Brand. He will be assisted on the sidelines by Thomas Stein and Frederick Assmuth, with Martin Petersen as the fourth official. The VAR officials are  Benjamin Cortus and Markus Sinn.

SOCIAL MEDIA

• For updates, follow Borussia’s English-language social media channels on Twitter and Facebook and use the hashtag #FCABMG