Dortmund vs Darmstadt | Bundesliga | Pre Match
Dortmund vs Darmstadt
INSIGHTS
Pre Match
1
Against no side do Borussia Dortmund have a better goals-per-game average against in the Bundesliga than versus SV Darmstadt, amongst opponents they have faced at least nine times (2.6 – level with Augsburg). Dortmund are still unbeaten at home against Darmstadt in the top-flight (W2 D2, most recently 6-0 in Sept. 2016).
2
SV Darmstadt have lost their last three Bundesliga games without scoring – the Lilies are yet to suffer four defeats in a row in the Bundesliga this season (4 most recently in March/April 2017) and only lost four in a row without scoring in the top-flight in December 2016 (4).
3
Borussia Dortmund have lost two of their last three Bundesliga matches (W1), which is as many defeats as the Black & Yellows had suffered in their previous 16 matches in the top-flight. With 60 points after 33 games, Dortmund is playing their weakest Bundesliga season in seven years (55 in 2017-18).
4
For the first time since the departure of Jürgen Klopp (2015), Borussia Dortmund will not finish a Bundesliga season in the top four of the table – in 2014-15, the club only finished seventh. Nevertheless, Dortmund have qualified for the Champions League for the ninth season in a row, which is an ongoing club record.
5
A defeat would leave SV Darmstadt 98 with just 17 points at the end of this Bundesliga season – the second worst tally by a Bundesliga club in the three-points-for-a-win era (since 1995-96) after FC Schalke 04, who won just 16 points in the 2020-21 season.
