RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund Prediction & Tips
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RB Leipzig are looking to snap a four-game winless league run against Champions League heroes Borussia Dortmund at the Red Bull Arena on Saturday, March 15th (kick-off 17.30).
This is a crunch game between two teams well-fancied at the start of the season who have lost their way in the Bundesliga as of late. Read on for our latest betting tips and predictions.
RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund Predictions
- Full Time Result: Dortmund Win
- Correct Score: 0-1
- Both Teams To Score: No
- Over 2.5 Goals: No
- First Goalscorer: Jamie Gittens
RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund Tips
Tip 1
The game comes quickly for Borussia Dortmund three days after winning 2-1 at Lille in the Champions League, but Niko Kovac’s men will be buoyant after extending their European adventure.
Tip 2
Julian Gittens only got a few minutes off the bench in Northern France but will come back in from the start and the exciting Englishman is a nice price to get back on the scoring trail and add to his 11-goal haul with the opener on Saturday.
RB Leipzig Form, Team News & Predicted Line-Up
RB Leipzig go into the weekend in sixth place in the Bundesliga, and struggling, with three draws and a defeat in their last four matches.
In fact the whole season has been difficult for Marco Rose’s men who bombed in the Champions League group stage, although they are still in the DFB-Pokal.
Rose has erred towards five at the back or a 4-4-2 set-up with Lois Openda and Benjamin Sesko leading the line. But there is illness in the camp and Rose is still missing key men like Benjamin Henrichs and Xavier Schlager.
RB Leipzig Predicted XI: Gulácsi; Geertruida, Orbán, Bitshiabu, Raum; Baku, Haidara, Vermeeren, Simons; Šeško, Openda.
Borussia Dortmund Form, Team News & Predicted Line-Up
New boss Niko Kovac has taken charge of nine matches at Dortmund and led them successfully past Sporting Lisbon and Lille into the Champions League quarter-finals.
In the league, however, it is more of a struggle with Dortmund in 10th and they were desperate last weekend losing 1-0 at home to Augsburg, though maybe they had one eye on their trip to Lille.
They had won two in a row before the Augsburg reverse despite still being without Felix Nmecha, and Dortmund can call on 24-goal Serhou Guirassy, one of the shooting stars of this season’s Bundesliga.
Borussia Dortmund Predicted XI: Kobel; Ryerson, Can, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Sabitzer, Gross; Adeyemi, Brandt, Gittens; Guirassy.
RB Leipzig vs Borussia Dortmund Head-to-Head Record
It was Dortmund who prevailed at Signal Iduna Park in November when goals from Max Beier and Serhou Guirassy earned the hosts a 2-1 win after Benjamin Sesko had fired RB in front.
Last season it was Leipzig who did the double over their top-flight rivals, winning 3-2 away and 4-1 at home.
In fact, games between these sides are rarely dull. Each of the last nine Bundesliga showdowns between them have produced at least three goals and they haven’t drawn a game since a thrilling 3-3 draw in Dortmund in 2019.
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