On Sat Dec 11th, in week 15, Bochum and Borussia Dortmund will play a match in Bochum in a meeting of these two Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cold day, and temperatures reaching a maximum of only 3 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. In their last match, 10th placed Bochum, recorded a 3-2 win against Augsburg. Sebastian Polter struck first for Bochum in the 23rd minute on a feed from Gerrit Holtmann, then Gerrit Holtmann added another in the 40th minute. Bochum is looking for direction having 5 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 2nd placed Borussia Dortmund, recorded a 5-0 blowout win against Beşiktaş. Donyell Malen struck first for Borussia Dortmund in the 29th minute on a feed from Jude Bellingham, then Marco Reus added another in the 2nd minute of the first half’s stoppage time from the penalty spot In the end, Beşiktaş couldn’t muster any offence and Borussia Dortmund ran away with the shutout win. Borussia Dortmund is looking for direction having 5 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season.
Borussia Dortmund has been fortunate! In the last 5 matches, both Erling Braut Håland and Donyell Malen are on scoring streaks. They have each scored 4 goals for Borussia Dortmund and look to continue their dominance.. Bochum’s most prolific scorer has been Sebastian Polter. He has netted 3 goals over the last 5 matches
Bochum will be without Gerrit Holtmann, Tesche, Simon Zoller, Maxim Leitsch, Decarli, Osterhage and Paul Grave, while Thorgan Hazard, Mate Morey, Roman Bürki, Raphaël Guerreiro, Nico Schulz, Marcel Schmelzer, Giovanni Reyna, Jude Bellingham, Luca Unbehaun and Moukoko are unavailable to play for Marco Rose’s team.