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Borussia Dortmund – SC Freiburg
There’s plenty of football again this weekend. For example, the Bundesliga goes into its 19th matchday. Germany’s highest division again has some exciting games in store for you. On Saturday afternoon, there is also an absolute top match. Borussia Dortmund receives SC Freiburg at Signal Iduna Park. Both teams still have ambitions for the Champions League.
Before the winter break, there was a lot of criticism for Dortmund. BVB did not play good football and found themselves far behind leaders Bayern Munich. However, after somewhat fortunate victories to start the new year and a weak phase for Bayern, Borussia is currently back in fourth place and only three points behind the record champions. Last Sunday, BVB defeated Bayer Leverkusen 2:0.
SC Freiburg is currently tied with BVB on points in fifth place in the Bundesliga. The Breisgau team is once again playing a very strong season. At the start of the second half of the season, the SCF won 3:1 against FC Augsburg last Saturday. Find out whether the Breisgau side will also be successful in the Ruhr area in our Dortmund vs Freiburg betting tips.
Dortmund – Freiburg Info:
– Date & Time: 04.02.2023, 15:30 Uhr
– Venue: Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund
– Competition: Bundesliga, Matchday 19
– TV broadcast: Sky
Dortmund Form & Balance Check
The golden days of Borussia Dortmund seem to be a distant memory for fans at the moment. In the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 seasons, the team won the league title and thrilled as champions of the Bundesliga. One year later, BVB even reached the final of the Champions League. However, fans currently have to content themselves with memories of these successful times.
Because qualification for the Champions League this season is anything but certain. Dortmund is currently only in fourth place in the table, which is mainly due to inexplicable fluctuations in performance and the accompanying inconsistent results. Nevertheless, Dortmund won their first three matches in the new year, albeit somewhat fortunately in some cases. At the weekend, BVB won 2-0 at Bayer Leverkusen.
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Sébastien Haller fortunately beat his illness and recently made his debut for Dortmund from the start. In addition, Dortmund were missing other highly talented players, especially on the offensive side, for long stretches of the Hinrunde. These include Giovanni Reyna, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens and Mahmoud Dahoud, who have only been able to show their class again in recent games. Reyna, for example, had scored the winning goal in the first two games in the new year.
The ever-increasing options on the offensive are now also creating more scoring danger for Borussia again. While BVB scored an average of 1.7 goals before the winter break, it was already 2.7 goals in the first three games in 2023. In addition, newcomer Karim Adeyemi has now also scored his first goal of the season in the league against Bayer 04.
Dortmund facts & analysis
– Currently in fourth place in the Bundesliga table.
– Still without a point loss in 2023
– In the last 16 of the Champions League
Freiburg Form & Balance Check
Christian Streich has had a remarkable career as a coach. When the Weil am Rhein-born coach took over at SC Freiburg in November 2011, no one would have expected him to still be in charge over a decade later. But under Streich’s leadership, SC Freiburg developed into a respected club in the Bundesliga.
SC Freiburg is currently fifth in the Bundesliga, level on points with BVB. Despite the good form, coach Christian Streich’s team did not have an easy day to start the new year. On matchday 16, the Sport-Club went down 0:6 in Wolfsburg. On 28 January, however, SC Freiburg celebrated an important 3:1 home win against FC Augsburg and would now like to finally get back on track against Dortmund.
Grifo returns
Freiburg’s attack is not one of the most dangerous in the league, but Vincenzo Grifo and Michael Gregoritsch in particular regularly provide a scoring threat. The new Augsburg player has already scored seven times and Grifo, with his nine goals, even occupies fourth place on the list of the Bundesliga’s top scorers.
The Italian is particularly dangerous in standard situations and has already put four penalties and a direct free kick into the net. Shortly before the start of the new year, however, Grifo fell ill and thus missed the first two games for Sport-Club in the new year. His creativity was sorely lacking for Freiburg in those games. The fans of the Breisgauer hope that the 29-year-old is now back to full strength.
Freiburg facts & analysis
– Lost the last two away games
– Currently in fifth place in the league
– Best provider of assists is Doan with four
Predicted line-up – last update on 2 February 2023
Edin Terzić has been playing in a 4-3-3 of late, but it’s also conceivable that he will send his team back out onto the field with a 4-2-3-1. Reus could celebrate his starting eleven comeback on the ten. Thomas Meunier will be absent due to injury. Wolf and Adeyemi have recommended themselves for the starting eleven with their strong performances against Leverkusen.
We expect coach Christian Streich’s team to play in a 3-4-3, which is how the SCF played against Augsburg recently. Despite his goal, Höler will probably have to make way for the recovered Grifo. Roland Sallai is expected to be absent due to injury.
Dortmund – Freiburg direct comparison & statistics
Dortmund have won 31 of their 48 meetings with the Breisgau side. Freiburg, on the other hand, have only won six matches against BVB. Especially in Dortmund, the SCF usually looked very old. In the first leg, Dortmund turned a 0:1 deficit into a 3:1 victory.
– Freiburg won only one of the 22 guest matches in Dortmund.
– Both teams are level on points in the league
– Dortmund with only one home defeat this Bundesliga season.
– When Freiburg lead 1-0 in away games, they win 78% of the games
