B1 derby

VfL Bochum makes the short fifteen minute journey on the B1 to face BVB at Westfalenstadion with an expected crowd of 70,000 watching. Although it has been a nasty start of the season for Marcel Koller's squad, BVB is wary of them. In-fact while Vfl is winless in their previous six matches, Borussia Dortmund is unbeaten during the same period and won five of the last six matches at home versus VfL.

Jürgen Klopp said them:

"They did not steal that point from Munich, they deserved it win a good fight. And no other Bundesliga team was as close to keeping Hoffenheim under control as Bochum was until now."

Against FC Köln they employed a 4-2-3-1 but with the suspension of Christoph Dabrowski, BVB is aware they may flip to a 4-4-2.

Die Schwarzgelben will be missing Marc-André Kruska, Dedê and Marcel Schmelzer while Stanislav Šesták and Matias Concha are out for the visitors, along with Christoph Dabrowski on suspension.