The weekend’s Bundesliga action comes to a close at the home of Borussia Mönchengladbach, who are looking to kick off a calendar year with back-to-back league wins for the first time since 2021. Gerardo Seoane’s men began with a 3-1 win over Stuttgart against the odds, but enter this clash against Augsburg as warm favourites, a tag with which they remain unbeaten with during this league season (W3, D3).
Borussia-Park should provide the perfect backdrop for Gladbach to continue that fine record as they have not posted a competitive defeat here since September 2023, winning six and drawing twice since. Backing up their imperious home form is a run of five wins across the last six home H2H encounters (W5, D1), with the Foals scoring at least twice in each of the victories throughout that sequence.
Augsburg boss Jess Thorup will be hoping for more from his players after they kicked off their 2024 schedule with a disappointing albeit unsurprising 1-0 defeat to title-chasing Bayer Leverkusen. That result consigned them to four straight winless league games for the first time under Thorup’s stewardship (D1, L3), which is particularly concerning as the Bavarians failed to score in all three of those defeats.
That record becomes even bleaker when considering only away form, with Augsburg coming up trumps in just one of their last 21 Bundesliga road trips (D5, L15). One must look back even further than that to find their last travelling league clean sheet, with their ongoing 22 game sequence without one their longest ever such streak in the top flight.
Players to watch: Robin Hack has announced himself on the scene in recent weeks, hitting all four of his Bundesliga goal contributions for Gladbach across his last three appearances (G2, A2). For the visitors, Augsburg club captain Ermedin Demirović assisted both of his side’s goals in their last Bundesliga victory and also assisted before half-time in the most recent H2H.
Hot stat: Augsburg have conceded a club record 32 goals after 17 Bundesliga rounds and are the only side yet to keep a clean sheet at any venue.
