18.10.2024 | 
Borussia Dortmund has to bounce back immediately after a tough loss in the last matchday. Hosting St. Pauli looks like a great opportunity for that but the visitors are statistically the team that runs the most in the Bundesliga.
Borussia Dortmund and St. Pauli meet on 18.10.2024, with both teams coming off a loss. The game takes place at Signal Iduna Park on Friday.
| Borussia Dortmund | Friday, 18.10.2024, 14:30 | St. Pauli |
| 1 | x | 2 |
| 1,30 | 6,10 | 9,80 |
Borussia Dortmund – St. Pauli: Initial situation
Both teams are ranked lower than their expectations at this point of the season and will look for a chance to improve that. The home team is a huge favorite in this game and it will be a miracle if the visitors escape undefeated.
Borussia Dortmund Stats & Form
Borussia Dortmund was very active on the transfer market, again more selling than buying. That usually cost them some point at the beginning of the season and that is the case this time around. The Prussians have won 3 of 6 games so far in the season, which puts them in seventh place in the standings, four points behind Bayern Munich. They had a couple of impressive scoring outbursts hitting the net four times in a win against Bochum, and then scoring seven against Celtic. However, things fell apart in their last Bundesliga game as they lost 3-1 against Union Berlin. That was their second loss of the season after failing 5-1 to Stuttgart. Now, they are sixth in the league with 12 goals scored and are ranked third with 89.1% pass completion.
St. Pauli Stats & Form
After 13 years, St. Pauli is back in the Bundesliga and every game in the top tier is a holiday for their huge fan base. The main goal for the team is to keep their spot in the highest level of competition and it is clear that they will be flirting with the relegation zone all year long. Currently, they are 15th in the league with only 4 points in 6 games, as many as Hoffenheim who are in the zone of danger. St. Pauli’s only win so far in the season came on the road against Freiburg by 3-0, which one of only two games in which the team from Hamburg scored. Despite that, St. Pauli is in the top half of the league when it comes to possession and on top of the league with distance covered.
Borussia Dortmund – St. Pauli: Head to Head
Borussia Dortmund has won 8 of the last 10 games against St. Pauli, but the team from Hamburg won their last meeting. It was in the round of 16 of the 2022 Cup when St. Pauli won 2-1. Seven of the last ten games between these two teams went over 2.5 goals in total.
Borussia Dortmund – St. Pauli: Odds
Borussia Dortmund is a major favorite going into this one with the odds of 1,30. The odds for St. Pauli’s win are 9,80 while the draw is set at 6,10. The total goal line is set at 2.5 with 1,47 for over and 2,80 for under.
Top 3 Betting Odds
| Borussia Dortmund – St. Pauli Betting Tip | Odds |
| Borussia Dortmund to win and total over 2.5 goals | 1,68 |
| Over 3.5 goals | 2,17 |
| First half: Over 1.5 goals | 2,05 |
Betting tip and prediction: Borussia Dortmund – St. Pauli (18.10.2024)
Borussia Dortmund has split the first six games of the season and already has a deficit compared to Bayern Munich. Being four points shy of the leader does not sound like an issue, but head coach Nuri Sahin cannot allow any more mistakes since Bayern will definitely not drop points around. That is the reason why this is a must-win game for the Prussians, who open the seventh matchday of the Bundesliga season against one of the worst teams in the league. St. Pauli is back in the top tier of German football for the first time since the 2010-11 season. The team from Hamburg has a huge fan base but not a roster that can be competitive on this level. St. Pauli has scored only four goals in six games so far in the season, which makes them the worst-offensive team in the Bundesliga. They failed to score in two of the last three games in the Bundesliga, and Dortmund is not the place where they will have many scoring opportunities. Striker Carlo Boukhalfa is out with injury, which is an additional problem for head coach Alexander Blessin, who has limited options on that spot. Borussia Dortmund also has a couple of guys on the injury list. The 22-year-old Karim Adeyemi has scored two goals and has three assists so far in the Bundesliga and recorded a hat-trick in a recent Champions League match against Celtic. Unfortunately, he suffered an injury in Dortmund’s loss to Union Berlin and will not be available for this game. His absence could have been a chance for the 18-year-old Julien Duranville, but the Belgian is also out. Anyway, Sahin has plenty of guys ready to step up and fill any gap on the pitch. Borussia Dortmund is well known for their aggressiveness, which was evident the last time they played at Signal Iduna Park when they scored seven goals against Celtic. Again, they will attack from the very first minute of the game and will probably get on the board early on. Regardless of when the first goal comes, Borussia Dortmund will keep the foot on the gas and win in a game that will go over 2.5 goals in total.