1.Bundesliga on Sunday

Borussia Dortmund - FC Schalke 04

Statistic:
- After 146 derby matches S04 has won 58 to 50 and played 38 times remis.
- Since the 0-1 defeat at home in April, BvB is very hot with 8 wins and 1 draw to Darmstadt 2-2.
- In all their latest 18 league games, Dortmund was able to score at least 1 goal.
- Dortmund's striker Aubameyang scored with 13 goals almost the same as all S04 players (14).
- He scored in every home game this Season (8 goals in 5 matches).
- Schalke lost 5 of their last 8 BL road games, the other 3 were won to nil.

A very hot derby is expected but the supporters form Schalke are stay away and they demonstrate here. Therefore it is open if the tickets which get back from Schalke are sold or this part of the stadium will remain free and in if it would be not sold out. But this is not the things we want to discuss anyway. Both teams are EL starters and both teams have the same conditions for today. Dortmund is running very hot at the moment and they are firing form all guns. The offensive is working excellent and they can look forward to bring a lot of pressure on the defensive line form Schalke. The only problem is the miss from Reus again after he got injured in EL games on Thursday.
The team from Coach Breitenreiter is getting more and more problems right now. They have not the success they had to begin of the Season recently. It is all a bit slow and they can not convince. The offensive player Choupo Mouting and Huntelaar running behind their form, only Sane is doing great but the youngster can not decide all the games. The offensive is very weak at the moment what the last games showed. In central midfield they have to replace creative player Geis what should be a miss here anyway. Overall they should have problems in this derby but you never know what happen above all in these important games for both.


FC Augsburg - Werder Bremen

Statistic:
- Augsburg lost only 2 of their 8 matches with Werder Bremen.
- Only against Stuttgart and Hamburg they collected more wins (5) as against Bremen (4).
- In their own Stadium they never lost a BL game to Bremen (3-1-0).
- Augsburg has a huge negative run with 6 winless matches in a row and only 2 Points collected.
- In this period they conceded almost an average from 3 goals.
- Bremen's defensive is working much better on the road with only 6 conceded beside 12 at home.
- Also they are much successfully on the road in scoring, with 8 of their 11 goals scored on the road.
- No other teams got so less Points out from the last 7 games like Augsburg and Bremen.

This match is a tricky one. Both teams are under huge pressure according to the actual table situation of both. Both are sitting at the bottom of the table and need every Point right now above all home side Augsburg need the win urgently to close the gap to the teams above and get some confidence back. Of course they showed an uptrend lately but they played a lot of matches recently. This is exactly what they have to handle now, with heavy legs into the next important game. The energy they invested on Thursday was big and maybe this is not available for the BL game. It is all up to them if they can bring an even performance on the pitch or not.
On the other side Bremen is doing much better on the road, they are much more dangerous there. What speak a lot for Bremen here. Both teams having problems if they must be the active part in a game, both like more to sit back and come over their counter attacks. For this reason Bremen is well rested, could prepare the whole week for this encounter and should have an advantage here.