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Will Borussia Dortmund secure qualification for the Champions League this weekend? With a win at TSG Hoffenheim (18 April, 3:30 p.m.), participation in Europe’s top club competition would be all but guaranteed. With five matches still to play, BVB are twelve points ahead of Bayer Leverkusen.

Dortmund’s Bundesliga record against the club from Kraichgau is a positive one. The Black and Yellows have beaten TSG 16 times in Germany’s top flight. In contrast, Hoffenheim have managed only eight wins. The two clubs have also drawn eleven times. The goal difference stands at 57:50 in Borussia’s favor.

Dortmund and Hoffenheim have faced each other three times in the DFB-Pokal. On every occasion, BVB advanced to the next round – most recently in 2023/24. Marco Reus scored the decisive goal.

In the Bundesliga, the Westphalians have won eight of the last eleven meetings. Only once (in 2023/24) did TSG leave the pitch as winners. One of the main reasons for the 3:2 win at Signal Iduna Park was Maximilian Beier, who turned a 1:2 deficit into a Hoffenheim victory with a brace. A few months later, the striker switched sides.

Hoffenheim in crisis

The Kraichgau side, who looked so strong for a long time, have stumbled badly in recent weeks. After a 3:0 win over SC Freiburg on Matchday 22, they were third in the table – six points behind BVB. Since then, however, Hoffenheim have added just one more win to their tally (“three-pointer”) (4:2 in Heidenheim), alongside three draws and three defeats. Now down in sixth place, they trail the Black and Yellows by 13 points. In their last seven Bundesliga matches, only VfL Wolfsburg (1) have picked up fewer points than TSG.

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TSG’s dry spell has run almost parallel to the goal drought of their still most prolific player. Andrej Kramaric has scored ten times this season already. But the Croatian has failed to find the net in his last six matches. Whether his dip in form is connected to the unclear contract situation of the 34-year-old remains uncertain. Kramaric’s contract in Kraichgau expires next summer. After more than ten years, the 114-time international could therefore be heading for a farewell.

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