Borussia Mönchengladbach – Heidenheim: loser gets dragged under at Borussia-Park 
On Saturday, Borussia-Park hosts a nasty little scrap in the bottom half of the table. Borussia Mönchengladbach, 13th, welcome the basement boys Heidenheim, 18th, in a huge game in the fight to stay up. The visitors are scrabbling to claw their way out of the drop zone. The home side want clear air, and they want it now.
The Foals are fighting back at home 
Gladbach were close to a proper mood killer before the break, throwing away a wild and frustrating 3-3 draw with Cologne after leading twice. Even so, Eugen Polanski’s side are broadly heading the right way. They’ve won two of their last four and rediscovered their cutting edge, scoring for fun again with five goals in their last two matches.
At home, the Foals are back to being a pain to deal with, rattling off two wins on the spin. If they’re to avoid a nasty slip back into relegation trouble — and they still have three top-five sides to face before the season’s out — they’ll need to tighten up at the back. Too often this year, they’ve leaked goals like a broken pipe.
Heidenheim on the brink 
Across the pitch, it’s a mess. The visitors are 12 points adrift of the relegation play-off spot and look nailed on for the drop. There was a huge bit of late defiance against Bayer Leverkusen — a 3-3 draw hauled back from 2-0 and then 3-2 down — but Frank Schmidt’s side still haven’t won in 14 league games.
Their away record is grim: 11 defeats from 13 trips. They’ve got the league’s worst defence, with 61 goals shipped, and they’ll have to dig in here under a long, ugly spell of home pressure. If they’re going to keep even a flicker of hope alive, they need a miracle at Borussia-Park — a ground where they’ve never won in seven attempts.
Likely line-ups
Borussia Mönchengladbach : Nicolas ; Sander, Elvedi, Diks ; Scally, Reitz, Engelhardt, Castrop ; Honorat, Stoger ; Tabakovic
Heidenheim : Ramaj ; Busch, Mainka, Gimber, Behrens ; Kerber, Niehues, Dorsch ; Dinkci, Pieringer, Conteh
Football Prediction Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Heidenheim
Borussia Mönchengladbach to win
Heidenheim’s little burst of fight before the international break deserves credit, but their defensive flaws are still wide open and hard to ignore at this level.
Borussia Mönchengladbach have found their rhythm at home and have more than enough attacking quality to break through this back line more than once. Against a visiting side that keeps folding away from home and keeps shipping goals in bunches, Gladbach should run the show from start to finish and bank three priceless points in the survival scrap.
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