Robert Lewandowski is walking on untouched paths, Vincenzo Grifo is in the shape of his life and goals are always falling between Leverkusen and Frankfurt – the top facts for matchday 14.
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TSG Hoffenheim – SC Freiburg
The team of the hour: SC Freiburg is the best team in the last five Bundesliga game days (three wins, two draws) and is the only Bundesliga club to have won all of the last three games. An important factor in this was ex-Hoffenheim Vincenzo Grifo, who set his personal season record with six Bundesliga goals after just 13 match days.
1. FC Cologne – FC Augsburg
Prince Poldi’s legacy wanted: FC Augsburg have been unbeaten against Cologne in eleven Bundesliga games (five wins, six draws). The only defeat came in the first duel (0: 3 on October 30, 2011 in Cologne; Lukas Podolski tied a brace). Most recently, however, there were three 1: 1 in a row against FC.
Eintracht Frankfurt – Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Built-in gate guarantee: Frankfurt and Leverkusen met 70 times in the Bundesliga, and they never parted 0-0. In the history of the Bundesliga, there has not been another pairing as often without one ending goalless.
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SV Werder Bremen – 1. FC Union Berlin
Away advantage on the Weser? Last season, the visiting teams dominated this duel. First Werder An der Alten Försterei won 2-1, then Union in the Weserstadion 2-0. It will be a special game for Theodor Gebre Selassie as the Czech is about to play his 251st Bundesliga game – with that he would overtake Claudio Pizarro as the foreigner with the most appearances for Werder.
DSC Arminia Bielefeld – Borussia Mönchengladbach
Contrasting standards: No other team scored as many goals from set pieces as Mönchengladbach (eleven, including six penalties) in this Bundesliga season. At the other end of the scale is Bielefeld: Arminia was the only team not to have been successful after a dead ball.
Hertha BSC – FC Schalke 04
Glimmer of hope for the miners: Schalke may be bottom of the table, but there could hardly be a better opponent in Christian Groß’s debut: In this millennium, the Knappen celebrated as many Bundesliga wins against any other club as against Hertha BSC (21). Of the last 23 meetings with the old lady, Schalke only lost three.
VfB Stuttgart – RB Leipzig
Leipzig’s flawless record: RB Leipzig has never lost to a newcomer in the Bundesliga; there were 14 wins and three draws (this season a 2-1 win against Bielefeld).
Borussia Dortmund – VfL Wolfsburg
Start of the year against your favorite opponent: Borussia Dortmund has been unbeaten in ten Bundesliga games against Wolfsburg and won nine of them. The last VfL competitive game win against BVB came in the 2015 cup final (3: 1).
FC Bayern Munich – 1. FSV Mainz 05
Lewandowski turns everything over: Bayern have always been behind in the last seven Bundesliga games – eight times in a row this has never happened to the record champions. Remarkable: none of these games were lost (four wins, three draws). Of course it helps to have Robert Lewandowski on the team. The Pole scored the last five Bundesliga goals for Bayern and has 17 goals under his belt after 13 match days – the goal scorer was Gerd Müller’s all-time high at that time.
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