Bochum vs Borussia Dortmund Preview: Team News & Prediction

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Borussia Dortmund will hope their brilliant result in the Champions League midweek serves as a boost to their spluttering Bundesliga campaign as they face lowly Bochum.

Kick-off date/time: Saturday February 15th 2025: – UK – 2:30pm / US ET – 9:30am / US PT – 6:30am

How to watch on TV: UK – Sky Sports / US – Some matches will be televised on ESPN channels so it is worth checking their schedules

How to watch online: UK – Sky Go / US – ESPN+

Bochum Team News: Change required in goal

Max Wittek won’t play any part in this encounter, the Bochum full-back is suspended for the visit of Borussia Dortmund. Also missing for the home team are Myron Boadu, Patrick Drewes and Felix Passlack. Drewes in particular, is a big miss being the usual first-choice goalkeeper, with Timo Horn set to fill in.

Predicted XI (3-5-2): Horn; Oermann, Ordets, Medic; Gamboa, Bero, Sissoko, Losilla, Bernardo; Hofmann, Holtmann

Unavailable: Boadu (Injured), Drewes (Illness), Passlack (Injured), Wittek (Suspended)

Questionable: Masouras (Injured)

Borussia Dortmund Team News: Bensebaini battling to feature 

Borussia Dortmund have issues to contend with on both sides of their defence. Whilst right-back Julian Ryerson misses out through suspension, left-back Ramy Bensebaini could also be absent as he fights to recover in time from a muscle injury.

Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Kobel; Can, Anton, Schlotterbeck, Svensson; Sabitzer, Gross; Adeyemi, Brandt, Gittens; Guirassy

Unavailable: Chukwuemeka (Injured), Nmecha (Injured), Ryerson (Suspended)

Questionable: Bensebaini (Injured)

Bochum vs Borussia Dortmund Prediction

This is simply must-win from a Borussia Dortmund perspective. To drop points away to rock bottom Bochum would be a disaster for new head coach Niko Kovac and ruin all the momentum generate from dispatching Sporting Lisbon 0-3 in Portugal less than a week ago in the Champions League. It’s been a nightmare of a domestic campaign so far with the German giants down in 11th-place and they simply have to start winning games consistently.

Bochum remain in deep trouble with the gap between them and 15th-place now seven points. A more realistic short-term target would be to catch 16th-placed Heidenheim, who are just three points above them. But the expectation is that the home side will come up short here and that Dortmund will pick up victory.

Bochum vs Borussia Dortmund Tip: Borussia Dortmund to win