Longest ongoing home run against any opponent | OneFootball

The scenario: Both teams are competing for a place in European competition. BVB go into the matchday in eighth place in the table, two points behind seventh-placed Gladbach, whom they would overtake with a home win.

Home/away: Dortmund have already scored 34 goals at home – that is seven more than at the same stage of last season (27). Gladbach are unbeaten in five away matches and have taken an impressive 13 points during that run.

Head-to-head record: BVB have taken points against Mönchengladbach 23 times after going 1-0 down (10 wins and 13 draws) – a record that is not surpassed in any other pairing in Bundesliga history. The Black & Yellows have won 17 of their last 18 home games against the Lower Rhine outfit. Since August 1988, the Black & Yellows have not failed to score in any of their subsequent 32 home games against Gladbach. VfL have only conceded a triple-digit number of goals in Munich, Stuttgart and Dortmund (118).

Statistics: Borussia Dortmund might have lost only one of their last four Bundesliga matches but they have only picked up 42 points in total – that’s 14 fewer than at the same stage of last season (56). BVB have not lost any of the last 14 matches in which they took a 1-0 lead; however, the last time they took points from a losing position was at the beginning of November 2024, when they ran out 2-1 winners against Leipzig. In the following eight games in which the Black & Yellows have gone 1-0 down, they have tasted defeat. Mönchengladbach have already amassed more points now (44) than they did in the entirety of the 2023/24 season (then 34 points after 34 rounds of matches).

Last season: From 2-0 down to 4-2 winners: the 81,365 spectators at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK saw a visiting team that had been dominant up until that point take a 2-0 lead in under 30 minutes thanks to goals from Reitz (13) and Koné (28). But BVB hit back strongly and turned the match around before the break, with Marcel Sabitzer (30), Niclas Füllkrug (32) and Jamie Gittens (45) scoring to make it 3-2. Even before the interval and in particular during a very dominant spell at the start of the second period, the Black & Yellows missed out on the fourth goal and were hanging on for the win at the end. It was only in the seventh minute of stoppage time that Donyell Malen sealed the victory.

Reverse fixture: Watched on by a sell-out crowd (54,042 spectators), an enthusiastic Gladbach side turned what was initially a highly promising game for Dortmund into a generally error-strewn encounter where possession frequently changed hands and there was little structure on both sides. Gittens put Dortmund in the lead with some outstanding individual play in the 64th minute, but it only lasted for seven minutes: Stöger converted a penalty awarded for a foul to make it 1-1. Guirassy’s headed effort in stoppage time was only centimetres away from being a last-gasp winner.

Biggest home win: The game on 20 February 2022 ended in a 6-0 win. In front of the permitted crowd of 10,000 people during the corona pandemic, BVB found themselves 2-0 up at half-time in a spectacular match that was hotly contested by both sides thanks to goals from Marco Reus (26) and Donyell Malen (32), as well as some stunning saves by goalkeeper Gregor Kobel. A two-goal salvo from substitutes Marius Wolf (70) and Youssoufa Moukoko (74) wrapped up the victory. Marco Reus – the standout performer with two goals and three assists – upped the lead to 5-0 in the 82nd minute, with Emre Can rounding off the scoring in stoppage time.