The top game between Dortmund and Bayern outshines the 10th matchday – on which strange records can also be set elsewhere and horror series that are over 20 years old can be broken.
Who screams on matchday 10? Bayern and Dortmund meet in the top game, Mönchengladbach with Alassane Plea (right) wants to break a horror series. imago images (2)
When this game is on the calendar, it often overshadows the rest of the weekend: Dortmund against Bayern, of course on Saturday night – but with one small flaw: Neither team is at the top of the table when the game kicks off at Signal-Iduna-Park. While almost all the statistics of the last few years speak against BVB (lost eleven of the last 13 duels with Bayern, conceded 44 goals since 2017), Bayern coach Thomas Tuchel has to break a series against his former club in order to keep his club’s streak going keep: He didn’t win an away game in Dortmund with either Mainz or PSG.
After more than 40 years: See you again in Darmstadt
As was the case last week, the match day opens in a distant region of the table with a duel between two relegation candidates. Score in the Darmstadt vs. Bochum game on Friday night two teams that many observers had tipped to be at the bottom of the table before the season – where they are not currently. In recent years, the two teams have mostly met in the 2nd Bundesliga; the last Bundesliga duel dates back to the 1981/82 season – no current Bundesliga player had been born then.
Crisis clubs at home – Leverkusen at the source of success?
As well on Saturday afternoon The focus is on the bottom of the table, the crisis occurs in three different stages: both the bottom team from Mainz (against Leipzig) as well as the second-to-last from Cologne (against Augsburg) and the fourth-to-last Union (against Frankfurt) are hoping for relief efforts in front of their own audience. The Berliners in particular are deep in a mess after their eleventh competitive defeat in a row, but at least they have the statistical trend on their side: the home team always won the last six games between Union and Frankfurt.
At the other end of the table, Bayer 04 Leverkusen not only wants to defend their top position, but also their clean slate (no competitive defeat yet in the current season). Opponent Hoffenheim is at least partly the origin of the success. Finally, the experience of Granit Both Xhaka with Gladbach and Hofmann with Dortmund made their debut in the German upper house in the first half of the 2012/13 Bundesliga – each with a win over TSG.
Between the many relegation candidates and the league leaders there is still a game in the middle of the table – and that brings Borussia Mönchengladbach to a place of horror a few days after Halloween: Freiburg. The Foals have only won one of a whopping 21 away games in Breisgau in their Bundesliga history – and that was so long ago that Gladbach’s winning goalscorer was named Arie van Lent and the right-back was named Max Eberl.
Does Bittencourt outperform Valdez and Smolarek?
Before on Sunday evening When the Swabian duel against VfB Stuttgart takes place in Heidenheim, almost 90 kilometers away, for the first time in the Bundesliga, Bremen’s Leonardo Bittencourt still has the chance of setting a somewhat strange record: the midfielder has always scored in the last three away games against VfL Wolfsburg. He also manages to do this when they meet on Sunday afternoon, he becomes the first player in Bundesliga history to score four times in a row in Wolfsburg. By the way, he currently shares the “record” not with Lewandowski, Aubameyang or Robben, but with Kießling, Valdez, Smolarek and Koller.
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