About Match
5 points and 5 places separate them: Borussia Dortmund 2nd with 9, Bayer 04 Leverkusen 7th with 4. Against a league average of 1.93 goals per team per game, Borussia Dortmund run at 2.67 scored and 0.67 conceded, Bayer 04 Leverkusen at 2.67 and 1.67. If Borussia Dortmund win, their total rises to 12 and up to 1st, assuming the rest of the results stand.
Momentum sits with Borussia Dortmund, winners of their last five, having scored in 9 consecutive games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 35 games: 18 Borussia Dortmund wins, 10 for Bayer 04 Leverkusen, 7 draws, at 3.23 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 37% of the meetings went to the host.
The match takes place at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund (capacity 81,365).