Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund will get Bundesliga Matchday two underway when they face off at the Europa-Park Stadion on Friday night.
Freiburg finished last season in sixth place, securing a Europa League spot and will aiming for the same this season. To achieve the heights Freiburg need a strong start to campaign which they seem to be enthusiastic about as they thrashed Augsburg 4-0 on the opening day of the new Bundesliga season last weekend.
They will be looking to maintain the momentum going into the second league fixture and having won all their last five matches in a row, Freiburg should be confident of shaking Dortmund on Friday. They are unbeaten against their visitors in the last three encounters at Europa-Park Stadion and will hope to keep the run going on Friday night.
Meanwhile Dortmund finished second in Bundesliga last season, eight points behind the champions Bayern Munich. They will be looking to reduce the gap this season as they hope to displace the serial Bundesliga winners.
They opened the new campaign well as they claimed a 1-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen last Saturday, with Marco Reus sealing the in the 10th minute. They will be looking for similar results this weekend and having won their last five away matches in a row, Dortmund should be confident on Friday night.
Freiburg vs Dortmund head to head
Both sides have met in 46 encounters since 1993 with Freiburg claiming 28 victories while Freiburg have claimed seven victories and there have been 11 draws.
- Dortmund 5-1 Freiburg 14/01/22
- Freiburg 2-1 Dortmund 21/08/21
- Freiburg 2-1 Dortmund 06/02/21
- Dortmund 4-0 Freiburg 03/10/20
- Dortmund 1-0 Freiburg 29/02/20
Home
- Augsburg 0-4 Freiburg
- Kaiserslautern 1-2 Freiburg
- Freiburg 1-0 Stade Rennes
- Freiburg 3-0 Vallecano
- St Gallen 3-4 Freiburg
Away
- Dortmund 1-0 Leverkusen
- Dortmund 1-1 Antalyaspor
- 1860 Munich 0-3 Dortmund
- Dortmund 0-2 Villarreal
- Dortmund 1-3 Valencia
Freiburg team news
Freiburg will be without Lucas Holer due to injury, while Lukas Kubler and Kevin Schade are doubts.
Dortmund team news
Dortmund will be without iklas Sule and Felix Passlack due to injury, while Sebastien Haller was diagnosed with cancer and is unavailable.
Prediction and odds
- Dortmund win
- Both sides to score
- Goals over 2.5
