Borussia Dortmund
- Borussia Dortmund have won three and lost just one of their last five competitive matches in all tournaments.
- Borussia Dortmund are unbeaten at home in the Bundesliga 2026-2027, winning three and drawing one of their four fixtures.
- Kovač took charge on 2 February 2025 and has set Dortmund to play a fast-paced, vertical style of soccer with a counter-press of real bite and width to make space in the center of the pitch.
- Borussia Dortmund have earned 17 points from their first seven games in the Bundesliga 2026-2027, which is not like the BVB of old, but enough to put them in second place in the table ahead of Saturday's visit of SV Elversberg.
SV Elversberg
- SV Elversberg have won two and lost three of their last five games in all competitions.
- The visitors have a solid record of their own with 13 points from eight games, leaving them in fifth spot, and will not arrive in the Signal Iduna Park with any fear.
Key Players
- Maurice Krattenmacher, who has bagged three in his last four, could be Elversberg's danger man, but it looks like Fabio Silva is going to be Dortmund's top finisher if the Portuguese goal man hits the net.
- Dortmund's last three results have been a 2-1 win at Sabah FK in the UEFA Champions League, a 1-0 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga and a 3-2 win over SV Werder Bremen in the DFB Pokal.
- Elversberg, who play a compact 4-2-3-1 system and live off the counter-attack, have a very similar recent record of two wins and three losses with their defeat coming in a 4-0 away loss to RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga and a 0-2 home defeat to SV Darmstadt 98 in the DFB Pokal.
Betting Insights
- They have been in good form of late, winning three, drawing one and losing one of their last five in all current competitions, but they are on a three-game winning streak at the moment.
- Dortmund will control the game, but we believe Elversberg are good enough to get something, so we're backing the home team to win and for there to be over 2.5 goals in the match at 1.3.
Prediction
- Dortmund will control the game, but we believe Elversberg are good enough to get something, so we're backing the home team to win and for there to be over 2.5 goals in the match at 1.3.
- Their good punch at home included a 4-1 win over 1. FSV Mainz 05, but there have been signs that they are not as good as they seem to be on paper.
