Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart Betting Odds, Tips, Predictions, Preview 8th February 2025

Despite a rather curious form recently, Borussia Dortmund have a good opportunity to be victorious in round 21 of the Bundesliga season. They meet VfB Stuttgart on Saturday at the Signal Iduna Park, where they hope to frustrate the visitors.

Placed 11th in the table Borussia Dortmund have amassed 29 points after 20 matches. On 32 points, VfB Stuttgart rank fiveth with 20 matches played this season.

Borussia Dortmund are looking for a payback after suffering a disappointing defeat in their latest encounter with VfB Stuttgart and odds favour them to pull it off.

When it comes to goal-scoring Borussia Dortmund could be more prolific, scoring 18 times in their previous ten games. That is an average of 1.8 goals per game in which, they conceded 16 times. This is an average of 1.6 a game, achieving a clean sheet in one games.

VfB Stuttgart scored 18 goals, conceded 11 and managed three clean sheets in their previous ten matches.

VfB Stuttgart won 5-1 and 1-0 in the two most recent meetings with Borussia Dortmund, and go into their upcoming match with a psychological advantage.

Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart Prediction

Borussia Dortmund Form

Borussia Dortmund recorded two wins and a draw in their last three matches. They started off drawing 2-2 with Werder Bremen. Next up was a 3-1 win against Shakhtar Donetsk, before FC Heidenheim were defeated in 1-2 win. Borussia Dortmund claimed a modest two wins in their past six home matches in the Bundesliga. They also drew three and lost one, scored 12 goals and conceded eight.

VfB Stuttgart Form

VfB Stuttgart suffered a couple of disappointments in their last three matches as they were run over by Paris Saint-Germain in a 1-4 defeat. Borussia Moenchengladbach also proved too hard to handle as they won 1-2, before VfB Stuttgart were able to strike back in a 1-0 win against Augsburg. In their last six away matches in the Bundesliga, VfB Stuttgart won twice, while also recording two draws. They endured two defeats in this run, with a scoreline from these matches saying nine goals conceded and six scored.

Head-to-head encounters tend to bring out the best in both sides, when it comes to goals. We see no reason for this trend to end here, and we expect an entertaining match once again between Borussia Dortmund and VfB Stuttgart.

Borussia Dortmund fought their way to two wins and seven points from their last seven games against teams inside the top six. They were on target nine times in these matches, but also let in 15 goals. Borussia Dortmund claimed eight wins, five draws as well as seven defeats in the Bundesliga this season. VfB Stuttgart are looking at nine wins, five draws and six defeats in the Bundesliga.

Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart Squads

Borussia Dortmund Squad

Niko Kovac will choose the starting lineup for the upcoming game against VfB Stuttgart from the players listed below (the information in the brackets refers to goals scored and matches played in the Bundesliga this season):

Alexander Meyer (0/2), Gregor Kobel (0/18), Marcel Lotka (0/0), Silas Ostrzinski (0/0), Almugera Kabar (0/4), Daniel Svensson (0/0), Filippo Mane (0/0), Julian Ryerson (1/17), Nico Schlotterbeck (0/17), Niklas Suele (0/7), Ramy Bensebaini (1/18), Waldemar Anton (0/15), Yan Couto (0/13), Carney Chukwuemeka (0/0), Emre Can (2/17), Felix Nmecha (2/19), Giovanni Reyna (2/10), Jamie Gittens (7/20), Julian Brandt (2/17), Kjell Waetjen (0/2), Marcel Sabitzer (0/17), Pascal Gross (0/18), Salih Oezcan (0/12), Cole Campbell (0/4), Julian Hettwer (0/0), Julien Duranville (0/7), Karim Adeyemi (2/11), Maximilian Beier (4/19), Serhou Guirassy (9/17).

VfB Stuttgart Squad

Listed below is the full squad of VfB Stuttgart players that the manager Sebastian Hoeness will choose from for the upcoming game:

Alexander Nuebel (0/20), Fabian Bredlow (0/0), Stefan Drljaca (0/0), Ameen Al Dakhil (0/5), Dan-Axel Zagadou (0/2), Finn Jeltsch (0/0), Jeff Chabot (0/18), Josha Vagnoman (1/18), Leonidas Stergiou (0/5), Luca Jaquez (0/0), Maximilian Mittelstaedt (1/18), Pascal Stenzel (0/4), Ramon Hendriks (0/14), Angelo Stiller (0/20), Atakan Karazor (1/18), Boris Tashchy (0/0), Chris Fuehrich (1/19), Enzo Millot (4/19), Ermedin Demirovic (8/20), Fabian Rieder (1/17), Leonhard Muenst (0/0), Luca Raimund (0/0), Yannik Keitel (0/7), Deniz Undav (7/14), El Bilal Toure (2/9), Jacob Bruun Larsen (3/17), Jamie Leweling (1/14), Justin Diehl (1/5), Mohamed Sankoh (0/0), Nick Woltemade (6/15), Wahid Faghir (0/0).

Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart Team News

Borussia Dortmund have an almost full squad available against VfB Stuttgart at Signal Iduna Park with only one player possibly missing. For their upcoming match in round 21, Borussia Dortmund are unable to call upon Nico Schlotterbeck, who is suspended.

VfB Stuttgart seem to have only one player on the injured and absent list, when they travel to Signal Iduna Park to face Borussia Dortmund. Atakan Karazor is ineligible for selection in the VfB Stuttgart squad, as he is suspended.

Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart Lineups

Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart H2H

VfB Stuttgart won 5-1 and 1-0 in the two most recent meetings with Borussia Dortmund, and go into their upcoming match with a psychological advantage. A draw might be high-priced, but nevertheless seems fairly unlikely, judging by their ten recent outings against each other. Borussia Dortmund managed four wins, while VfB Stuttgart grabbed all three points five times in these ten matches. Picking the home win gets you odds at 9/10 with the bookies, whereas the best betting odds on an away win at full-time are at 14/5.

Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart Results

Entertainment seems close to guaranteed when Borussia Dortmund welcome VfB Stuttgart as over 2.5 goals came out a winning bet eight times in ten matches. Over 2.5 goals is best priced at odds of 8/15 with the bookies on Saturday.

Borussia Dortmund vs VfB Stuttgart Betting Tips

Deniz Undav shows decent form right now for VfB Stuttgart, as he scored two goals in his last six games in the Bundesliga. The visitors need more from him, though, when facing Borussia Dortmund, who are strong favourites this coming Saturday. Siding with Serhou Guirassy also look a nice prospect as he scored three goals in his last six Bundesliga matches.

Borussia Dortmund claimed a modest five wins from their previous 10 home matches across all tournaments. They split the points with the visiting team in three of the games, whilst losing two. VfB Stuttgart won five of their last 10 games away, drew two and lost three of the games in this run. Goals are usually flowing for Borussia Dortmund on home soil these days, and at both ends of pitch. Both teams found the back of the net in eight of their last 10 matches here. In contrast, both teams to score happened four times for VfB Stuttgart in their last 10 league games away from home.

Over 3.5 goals came out six times in the past ten encounters between Borussia Dortmund and VfB Stuttgart, with the former on an average of 2.1 goals a game. VfB Stuttgart scored two goals per game and both teams scored seven times in this run. Over 2.5 goals happened in eight of Borussia Dortmund’s last ten matches across all tournaments. They pulled off an average of 1.8 goals during this run. In the last ten games for VfB Stuttgart, six of them had more than 2.5 goals, and they scored an average of 1.5 times goals per game themselves.