- 1 Borussia Dortmund vs Eintracht Frankfurt: Guirassy back among the goals, Frankfurt’s defence still leaking
- 2 Borussia Dortmund: unbeaten, four goals conceded, and a long injury list
- 3 Eintracht Frankfurt: one clean sheet all season, and it came last week
- 4 Free Bundesliga Prediction: Borussia Dortmund vs Eintracht Frankfurt
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Borussia Dortmund vs Eintracht Frankfurt: Guirassy back among the goals, Frankfurt’s defence still leaking 
Serhou Guirassy went three games without a goal before Tuesday night, then scored twice at Sabah, on ten minutes and again on 53, to give Borussia Dortmund a 2-1 Champions League win. It was the reminder Niko Kovač needed, because his side had scored only twice in the three matches before it.
That mini-drought didn’t cost Dortmund much in the league. They’re second in the Bundesliga with 14 points from six games, four wins and two draws, level on points with Bayern Munich and still unbeaten. Eleven scored and four conceded gives them a tighter defence than Bayern, who have let in five.
Eintracht Frankfurt arrive in 11th with eight points, and their numbers point the other way. They’ve conceded 16 league goals in six games, a total only Borussia Mönchengladbach have exceeded, and the week before their last league win they lost 6-0 to RB Leipzig, with Christopher Nkunku scoring a hat-trick.
The last two meetings between these sides were wild. Dortmund won 3-2 at home on 8 May 2026, four months after a 3-3 in Frankfurt on 9 January, and the overall record across 33 meetings reads 20 Dortmund wins, seven draws and six for Frankfurt.
Kick-off is 18:30 in Germany, 17:30 UK time, on Saturday. Both clubs play in the DFB-Pokal three days later, Frankfurt away at Hamburg, so there’s some rotation risk, but I think Dortmund’s home defence against Frankfurt’s away defence is the gap that decides this.
Borussia Dortmund: unbeaten, four goals conceded, and a long injury list 
Dortmund’s league season began with a 2-0 win over Hamburg and a 3-2 win at Hoffenheim, then a 3-0 against Paderborn and a 1-0 at Stuttgart. The two draws came next: 2-2 at home to Werder Bremen, after Niclas Füllkrug equalised in stoppage time, and 0-0 at Union Berlin on 17 October.
Those two draws are the closest thing to a problem. Dortmund led Bremen through goals from Svensson and Schlotterbeck and conceded twice late, then couldn’t break Union down in Berlin, and in between they lost 1-0 at Bodø/Glimt in the Champions League.
The Sabah win steadied things. For Saturday, Kovač is expected to stick with a back three of Gadou, Anton and Nico Schlotterbeck, with Gregor Kobel in goal, Jobe Bellingham and Felix Nmecha in midfield, and Nwaneri and Sabitzer behind Guirassy.
The absences are significant, if not in the starting XI. Emre Can has torn a cruciate ligament and faces around seven months out, Giannis Konstantelias has a knee injury, Justin Lerma a muscle problem, and Konstantinos Karetsas hurt his ankle at Union. Julian Ryerson (ribs), Chukwuemeka and Mané are doubts.
Schlotterbeck’s status is the one to check before kick-off. He’s in the projected XI on most German team-news pages but was listed as resting by another, and he’s started all seven of the most recent meetings with Frankfurt, as has Frankfurt’s Robin Koch.
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Eintracht Frankfurt: one clean sheet all season, and it came last week 
Frankfurt beat Köln 1-0 on 16 October with a 77th-minute goal from Ebnoutalib. It was their first home league win since March and their first clean sheet of the season, after five league games in which they’d conceded 16.
Before that, Adi Hütter’s side drew 3-3 at Union Berlin, lost 4-1 at home to Augsburg, won 3-1 at Mainz, drew 2-2 with Freiburg and then lost 6-0 to Leipzig. That’s 16 goals conceded in six league games, and five of those six matches had at least four goals in them.
The attack isn’t the issue. Frankfurt have scored ten, and Can Uzun, Ritsu Doan and Jonathan Burkardt give them enough quality to score at most grounds. Ebnoutalib’s winner against Köln has also put him in contention to start ahead of Burkardt.
The squad news is moderate. Jessic Ngankam is still rehabbing a hamstring injury and Pimpong is out, while Nnamdi Collins is carrying a knock and Maluze has been ill, though he’s reported back in training. Off the pitch, sporting director Markus Krösche has left the club at his own request.
Frankfurt have no European fixture this week, which gives Hütter a full week to prepare. The Pokal tie at Hamburg on 27 October may still tempt him to rest one or two players, and Robin Koch, an ever-present in this fixture, is the man who has to organise a back four that has kept one clean sheet in six.
Probable lineup Borussia Dortmund: Kobel; Gadou, Anton, N. Schlotterbeck; Ryerson, J. Bellingham, F. Nmecha, Svensson; Nwaneri, Sabitzer; Guirassy
Probable lineup Eintracht Frankfurt: Atubolu; Collins, Koch, Brassier, Kosugi; Aséko, Onyedika, Uzun; Knauff, Doan; Burkardt
Free Bundesliga Prediction: Borussia Dortmund vs Eintracht Frankfurt
Our prediction: Borussia Dortmund to win – 1.48
Dortmund have conceded four league goals in six games and haven’t lost one. Frankfurt have conceded 16, lost 6-0 to Leipzig earlier this month, and kept their first clean sheet only last week against Köln.
The recent head-to-head is the counter-argument: 3-3 in January, 3-2 in May, and a 2-0 Frankfurt win in January 2025. Those games came against a different Dortmund defence, though, and this one has kept four clean sheets in its first six league games.
A Dortmund win at 1.48 is the pick. Frankfurt have had the longer rest, but Guirassy is back scoring and a defence that has conceded 16 in six games is a poor match for a home side that hasn’t lost all season.
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