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Borussia Dortmund vs St. Pauli

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – SIGNAL IDUNA PARK

Date: 18th October 2024

Kick-off time – 19:30 GMT

After a two-week hiatus, the Bundesliga returns this Friday with Borussia Dortmund hosting St Pauli in the first game of Round 7.

It’s been a wild two months for Dortmund fans who have seen their team undulate between being title contenders and relegation material. The hosts went from beating Celtic 7-1 in the Champions League to losing 2-1 to Union Berlin in their last game.

The Black and Yellow are sitting seventh in the Bundesliga having conceded at least twice in their last four games. As such, this is their worst start (W3, D1, L2) since 2014/15.

However, they lead the division’s home table having collected all three of their league victories this season at Signal Iduna Park. This winning run and a 38-game unbeaten league streak on their own patch in Friday-held games (W29, D9) would suggest they’ll be confident to build on that run here too.

Meanwhile, St Pauli will be desperate to bounce back in this game after failing to use the momentum of their first Bundesliga win since February 2011 last month when they followed up a 3-0 win over Freiburg with a defeat by the same scoreline at home to Mainz in their last game. That victory at Freiburg looked like it might kickstart St. Pauli’s campaign but it did not, with the visitor’s failure to score in a league-high four matches suggesting they still have a long way to go.

However, they at least have a lifeline as all four of their Bundesliga goals in 2024/25 have come away from home. This could boost confidence, especially given their opponents’ defensive woes. Yet, the fact that they have never won at Dortmund (D3, L7) suggests it could be another disappointing night for the relegation-threatened visitors.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the German Bundesliga:

November 22, 2024
Bayern Munich 20:30 Augsburg 1907
November 23, 2024
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15:30 RB Leipzig
Wolfsburg 15:30 Union Berlin
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 15:30 Heidenheim
Borussia Dortmund 15:30 SC Freiburg
Stuttgart 15:30 VFL Bochum
Eintracht Frankfurt 18:30 Werder Bremen
November 24, 2024
Holstein Kiel 15:30 Mainz
Borussia Mönchengladbach 17:30 FC St. Pauli
November 29, 2024
FC St. Pauli 20:30 Holstein Kiel
November 30, 2024
RB Leipzig 15:30 Wolfsburg
Werder Bremen 15:30 Stuttgart
SC Freiburg 15:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Augsburg 1907 15:30 VFL Bochum
Union Berlin 15:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Borussia Dortmund 18:30 Bayern Munich
December 1, 2024
Mainz 15:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Heidenheim 17:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
December 6, 2024
Stuttgart 20:30 Union Berlin

German Bundesliga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Bayern Munich 10 8 2 0 33 7 +26 26
2 RB Leipzig 10 6 3 1 15 5 +10 21
3 Eintracht Frankfurt 10 6 2 2 26 16 +10 20
4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 10 4 5 1 21 16 +5 17
5 SC Freiburg 10 5 2 3 13 11 +2 17
6 Union Berlin 10 4 4 2 9 8 +1 16
7 Borussia Dortmund 10 5 1 4 18 18 +0 16
8 Werder Bremen 10 4 3 3 17 21 -4 15
9 Borussia Mönchengladbach 10 4 2 4 15 14 +1 14
10 Mainz 10 3 4 3 15 14 +1 13
11 Stuttgart 10 3 4 3 19 19 +0 13
12 Wolfsburg 10 3 3 4 19 18 +1 12
13 Augsburg 1907 10 3 3 4 13 20 -7 12
14 Heidenheim 10 3 1 6 13 15 -2 10
15 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 10 2 3 5 13 19 -6 9
16 FC St. Pauli 10 2 2 6 7 12 -5 8
17 Holstein Kiel 10 1 2 7 12 25 -13 5
18 VFL Bochum 10 0 2 8 10 30 -20 2

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