Match Report
Borussia Mönchengladbach, 4th with 65 points, sat 35 points above Fortuna Düsseldorf (17th, 30). Scoring rates set the scale: Fortuna Düsseldorf 1.06 scored and 1.97 conceded per game, Borussia Mönchengladbach 1.94 and 1.18, with the league averaging 1.6.
GioScore's database holds 5 meetings between the two: 1 for Fortuna Düsseldorf, 3 for Borussia Mönchengladbach and 1 drawn, at 2.6 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 80% of the meetings. Goals tend to flow: 80% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 60%.
Merkur Spiel-Arena in Dusseldorf, capacity 54,600, hosted the game. The referee was Daniel Siebert, with 71 matches in our database and 2.3 yellows per game on average. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 1-4.