About Match
3 points for Borussia Dortmund (5th), 1 for Paderborn (11th): a 2-point gap. Borussia Dortmund have been over-performing their table position on recent form: 1st in the league over the last five rounds against 5th overall. Per game in the league, Borussia Dortmund score 2 and conceding 0, Paderborn 0 and 0, against a competition average of 2 goals per team per game. Victory would move Borussia Dortmund to 6 points and up to 1st, with other results unchanged.
Paderborn carry a 5-game unbeaten run into this.
5 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Borussia Dortmund 3, draws 2, Paderborn 0, at 5 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 40% of the wins in this fixture. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 100% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 80%.
Signal Iduna Park stages the fixture, a ground that holds 81,365.