Facts: BVB's first trip to HSV in eight years | OneFootball

Scenario: Third-placed Dortmund travel to 13th-placed Hamburg. Although both teams have struggled to score goals recently (Dortmund have 15, Hamburg have eight) fans should nonetheless be able to hope for a goal fest: in BVB's 51 games away to HSV, 190 goals have been scored, an average of almost four per game. Borussia Dortmund have picked up points away to HSV (on 27 occasions) more than they have lost games (24 )and, despite an eight-year absence, still have scored more goals at the Volksparkstadion than any other away Bundesliga venue.

Home & away: BVB are the third-best away team after Hoffenheim (four wins, one draw) and Munich (four wins), with three wins (in Heidenheim, Mainz and Augsburg), one draw (St. Pauli) and one defeat (Munich). HSV picked up six of their eight points this season in their two home games against Heidenheim (2-1) and Mainz (4-0).

Head-to-head record: Before being relegated to the Bundesliga 2, HSV lost five Bundesliga matches in a row against BVB for the first time, always by a margin of at least two goals (two goals scored, at least 16 conceded). In four of these five matches, HSV failed to score a goal. Nicolai Müller scored HSV's last goal against BVB in November 2016. Despite this slump, Borussia Dortmund are still the club against whom Hamburger SV have scored the most Bundesliga goals (179).

Statistics: The reason for BVB's good haul this season (20 points, four more than at the same stage last season) is their solid defence: they have kept six clean sheets in nine games, the second-best record in the club's history. In the 2002/03 season, under coach Matthias Sammer and defensive midfielder Sebastian Kehl, they conceded just five goals in their first nine games. No Bundesliga team have scored fewer goals than Hamburger SV (eight, the same as Heidenheim and St. Pauli). The promoted team have however had the fourth-most shots on goal (125, Dortmund have 111), but have the lowest conversion rate (an average of 16 attempts per goal). In their last home game against Wolfsburg alone, they had 25 shots on goal, but none of them found the back of the net. HSV have squandered eight out of ten big chances this season.

The last away game: On 20 September 2017, a sell-out crowd of 55,000 at the Volksparkstadion were treated to a high-quality Bundesliga match. BVB delivered an impressive performance, however, were wasteful with their chances and led by just 1-0 at half-time thanks to Shinji Kagawa's goal in the 24th minute. It was only after an hour that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang set the course for victory with the second goal. This was set up by a counterattack from Christian Pulisic and Kagawa, at the end of which Aubameyang received the ball from a defender (63). The icing was then placed on the cake by Pulisic in the 79th minute: he was teed up by Mo Dahoud and drilled the ball into the far corner from the right side of the box to bring the final score to 3-0.

Biggest away win: BVB have twice triumphed by four goals at the Volkspark, in 1994 and 2012, scoring five goals on 22 January 2012. HSV were no match for the reigning and soon-to-be Bundesliga champions in terms of skill and stamina, and their defence was particularly lacking in compactness. Borussia laid the foundation for their success in the first half with goals from Kevin Grosskreutz (16) and Robert Lewandowski (3'). Jakub Blaszczykowski increased the score to 3-0 and 4-0 for BVB in the 58th and 76th minutes, before Lewandowski bagged his brace in the 83rd minute. José Paolo Guerrero scored a late consolation goal for HSV to make the final score 5-1.Compiled by Boris Rupert