RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund Preview

RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – Red Bull Arena

Date: 10th September 2022

Kick-off time – 14:30 GMT

RB Leipzig will look to begin life under Marco Rose with a win when they welcome Borussia Dortmund to the Red Bull Arena for the sixth round of the 2022/23 Bundesliga season.

The hosts sacked their manager Domineco Tedesco during the week after a dismal start to the new season that has seen them win just one of their opening five games of the league season while they were also soundly beaten 4-1 by Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League in midweek.

That loss in the UCL as well as a 4-0 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt in the league last weekend means that they come into this game having conceded eight goals in their last two games.

Those losses must have been the main reason Tedesco was sacked. Local lad Rose will now be hoping that his side who come into this game sitting in eleventh place, seven points behind league leaders Freiburg after five rounds of games will be able to quickly buy into his philosophy as he looks to get a win against his former side.

While Leipzig have undergone a change of manager, Dortmund have grown leaps and bounds under Edin Terzic.

The German manager has enjoyed a good start to the new season with four league wins and a loss in his opening five league games.

As a result, he comes into this tie sitting joint top of the league table.

Even in the Champions League they have enjoyed an impressive start, beating Copenhagen 3-0 in midweek.

That win over the Danish side has given them the perfect start in what looks like a tricky Group G and they will travel to Leipzig confident of continuing their impressive start to the season.

They have the chance to open their campaign with three away Bundesliga wins for the first time since 2010/11; a season in which they won the league.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the German Bundesliga:

January 10, 2025
Borussia Dortmund 20:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
January 11, 2025
Heidenheim 15:30 Union Berlin
SC Freiburg 15:30 Holstein Kiel
Mainz 15:30 VFL Bochum
FC St. Pauli 15:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15:30 Wolfsburg
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
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 20:30 Mainz
Eintracht Frankfurt 20:30 SC Freiburg
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
January 17, 2025
Eintracht Frankfurt 20:30 Borussia Dortmund

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 Borussia Dortmund 15 7 4 4 28 22 +6 25
7 Werder Bremen 15 7 4 4 26 25 +1 25
8 Borussia Mönchengladbach 15 7 3 5 25 20 +5 24
9 SC Freiburg 15 7 3 5 21 24 -3 24
10 Stuttgart 15 6 5 4 29 25 +4 23
11 Wolfsburg 15 6 3 6 32 28 +4 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 22, 2024
Wolfsburg 1 - 3 Borussia Dortmund
VFL Bochum 2 - 0 Heidenheim
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
Augsburg 1907 0 - 2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Mainz 2 - 1 Bayern Munich
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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