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RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – Red Bull Arena

Date: 9th January 2021

Kick-off time – 17:30 GMT

Title-chasers RB Leipzig will welcome fellow title hopefuls Borussia Dortmund to the Red Bull Arena this Saturday as they battle for a place behind Bayern in the Bundesliga table.

The hosts head into this tie unbeaten in nine games in all competitions and with the tightest defence in the league. They have conceded just nine times in 14 league games to make them the second meanest defence in Europe top five leagues.

Julian Nagelsmann’s side have kept four straight clean sheets in the league and have the Bundesliga’s best home record for this season having won six of their seven league games (D1). They will fancy their chances against a Dortmund team still finding their feet under new management.

Edin Terzic’s side are sitting in fourth place after 14 games but are already eight points adrift of Bayern in first place. Their target now remains to put together a consecutive run of form that could lead them higher up the table and closer to Bayern as the season progresses.

They head into this game with three wins from their last four games since new management took over. They will hope to build on an impressive showing against Wolfsburg in their last outing to pick up valuable points in this tie.

Both sides have injuries to key players but it is Leipzig who have the most with as many as eight of their players suffering varying injuries.

Leipzig failed to win over their weekend counterparts in their last five meetings with Dortmund winning three times in that period.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the German Bundesliga:

December 22, 2024
VFL Bochum 15:30 Heidenheim
Wolfsburg 17:30 Borussia Dortmund
January 10, 2025
Borussia Dortmund 20:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
January 11, 2025
Mainz 15:30 VFL Bochum
FC St. Pauli 15:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15:30 Wolfsburg
SC Freiburg 15:30 Holstein Kiel
Heidenheim 15:30 Union Berlin
Borussia Mönchengladbach 18:30 Bayern Munich
January 12, 2025
RB Leipzig 15:30 Werder Bremen
Augsburg 1907 17:30 Stuttgart
January 14, 2025
Holstein Kiel 18:30 Borussia Dortmund
Wolfsburg 20:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Eintracht Frankfurt 20:30 SC Freiburg
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 20:30 Mainz
January 15, 2025
VFL Bochum 18:30 FC St. Pauli
Stuttgart 20:30 RB Leipzig
Bayern Munich 20:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Werder Bremen 20:30 Heidenheim
Union Berlin 20:30 Augsburg 1907

German Bundesliga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Bayern Munich 15 11 3 1 47 13 +34 36
2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 15 9 5 1 37 21 +16 32
3 Eintracht Frankfurt 15 8 3 4 35 23 +12 27
4 RB Leipzig 15 8 3 4 24 20 +4 27
5 Mainz 15 7 4 4 28 20 +8 25
6 Werder Bremen 15 7 4 4 26 25 +1 25
7 Borussia Mönchengladbach 15 7 3 5 25 20 +5 24
8 SC Freiburg 15 7 3 5 21 24 -3 24
9 Stuttgart 15 6 5 4 29 25 +4 23
10 Borussia Dortmund 14 6 4 4 25 21 +4 22
11 Wolfsburg 14 6 3 5 31 25 +6 21
12 Union Berlin 15 4 5 6 14 19 -5 17
13 Augsburg 1907 15 4 4 7 17 32 -15 16
14 FC St. Pauli 15 4 2 9 12 19 -7 14
15 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15 3 5 7 20 28 -8 14
16 Heidenheim 15 3 1 11 18 33 -15 10
17 Holstein Kiel 15 2 2 11 19 38 -19 8
18 VFL Bochum 15 1 3 11 13 35 -22 6

German Bundesliga Results

December 21, 2024
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 5 - 1 SC Freiburg
Holstein Kiel 5 - 1 Augsburg 1907
Werder Bremen 4 - 1 Union Berlin
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 1 - 2 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Eintracht Frankfurt 1 - 3 Mainz
Stuttgart 0 - 1 FC St. Pauli
December 20, 2024
Bayern Munich 5 - 1 RB Leipzig
December 15, 2024
RB Leipzig 2 - 1 Eintracht Frankfurt
Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Heidenheim 1 - 3 Stuttgart
December 14, 2024
FC St. Pauli 0 - 2 Werder Bremen
Mainz 2 - 1 Bayern Munich
Augsburg 1907 0 - 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Borussia Mönchengladbach 4 - 1 Holstein Kiel
Union Berlin 1 - 1 VFL Bochum
December 13, 2024
SC Freiburg 3 - 2 Wolfsburg
December 8, 2024
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 1 - 1 SC Freiburg
Wolfsburg 4 - 3 Mainz

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