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FC Union Berlin vs Borussia Dortmund

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – An der alten Försterei

Date: 18th December 2020

Kick-off time – 19:30 GMT

Union Berlin will welcome Borussia Dortmund to the Stadion an der Alten Forsterei on Friday in the last round of matches for the year 2020.

The hosts are sitting in 6th position heading into this tie however they have found it difficult in recent times as they are without a win in four games (D3, L1).

They will be looking to pick up all three points from this tie and establish themselves firmly in a European spot going into the winter break.

Dortmund head into the tie off the back of a 2-1 win over Bremen that ended a run of three games without a win in the league.

The visitors are sitting in fourth position but have been underwhelming by their own standards and are already seven points behind Leverkusen who top the table. Dortmund are unbeaten in five of their last six away league games (W4, D1) scoring in all but one of them.

Edin Terzic will look to pick up his second win as Dortmund manager as he tries to put himself in the shop window going forward.

Thorgan Hazard, Thomas Meunier and Erling Haaland are all injury absentees for Terzic, while Union are without eight of their own players including veteran striker Max Kruse.

The last five meetings between both clubs have seen Dortmund win all but one of those matches.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the German Bundesliga:

May 4, 2024
Borussia Dortmund 14:30 Augsburg 1907
Wolfsburg 14:30 Darmstadt
Werder Bremen 14:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Stuttgart 14:30 Bayern Munich
FC Cologne 17:30 SC Freiburg
May 5, 2024
Union Berlin 14:30 VFL Bochum
Eintracht Frankfurt 16:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Heidenheim 18:30 Mainz
May 10, 2024
Augsburg 1907 19:30 Stuttgart
May 11, 2024
RB Leipzig 14:30 Werder Bremen
SC Freiburg 14:30 Heidenheim
Borussia Mönchengladbach 14:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
FC Cologne 14:30 Union Berlin
Mainz 17:30 Borussia Dortmund
May 12, 2024
Darmstadt 14:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Bayern Munich 16:30 Wolfsburg
VFL Bochum 18:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen

German Bundesliga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 31 25 6 0 77 22 +55 81
2 Bayern Munich 31 22 3 6 89 38 +51 69
3 Stuttgart 31 20 4 7 70 38 +32 64
4 RB Leipzig 32 19 6 7 74 36 +38 63
5 Borussia Dortmund 31 16 9 6 59 39 +20 57
6 Eintracht Frankfurt 31 11 12 8 47 42 +5 45
7 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 32 11 7 14 56 64 -8 40
8 SC Freiburg 31 11 7 13 43 55 -12 40
9 Augsburg 1907 31 10 9 12 48 52 -4 39
10 Heidenheim 31 9 10 12 44 52 -8 37
11 Werder Bremen 31 10 7 14 41 50 -9 37
12 Wolfsburg 31 9 7 15 37 51 -14 34
13 Borussia Mönchengladbach 31 7 11 13 53 60 -7 32
14 Union Berlin 31 8 6 17 26 50 -24 30
15 VFL Bochum 31 6 12 13 37 62 -25 30
16 Mainz 31 5 13 13 32 49 -17 28
17 FC Cologne 31 4 11 16 24 54 -30 23
18 Darmstadt 31 3 8 20 30 73 -43 17

German Bundesliga Results

May 3, 2024
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 1 - 1 RB Leipzig
April 28, 2024
Darmstadt 0 - 1 Heidenheim
Mainz 1 - 1 FC Cologne
Borussia Mönchengladbach 0 - 0 Union Berlin
April 27, 2024
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2 - 2 Stuttgart
Augsburg 1907 0 - 3 Werder Bremen
SC Freiburg 1 - 2 Wolfsburg
RB Leipzig 4 - 1 Borussia Dortmund
Bayern Munich 2 - 1 Eintracht Frankfurt
April 26, 2024
VFL Bochum 3 - 2 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
April 21, 2024
SC Freiburg 1 - 1 Mainz
Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Werder Bremen 2 - 1 Stuttgart
April 20, 2024
Union Berlin 1 - 5 Bayern Munich
FC Cologne 0 - 2 Darmstadt
Wolfsburg 1 - 0 VFL Bochum
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 4 - 3 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Heidenheim 1 - 2 RB Leipzig
April 19, 2024
Eintracht Frankfurt 3 - 1 Augsburg 1907

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