Fourth placed Borussia Dortmund welcome 13th placed Koln to the Westfalenstadion on Friday night to get this weekend’s Bundesliga’s action off to a start. Dortmund are unbeaten at home this season, while Koln have only two wins to their name on their travels in the league this campaign. Can Dortmund inflict more pain here?

Borussia Dortmund vs Koln Betting Tips and Predictions: Dortmund

Dortmund restart their Bundesliga campaign with a pulsating 3-5 win away to Augsburg. New signing Erling Haland grabbed the headlines with a second half, twenty minute hattrick to give the Black and Yellows a fantastic victory. Dortmund are still outsiders to win the title, currently priced around 12.0, Bayern are as low as 1.50 despite being four points behind leaders RB Leipzig.

Back to this match though, in 43 previous meetings at home against Koln, Dortmund have lost just six times, however over the five most recent meetings here, Dortmund have won two and three have ended all square. At home they’ve won 3/5 previous matches and 6/10, losing just one. Dortmund are currently priced around 1.30 to win, no value in that but understandable.

Borussia Dortmund vs Koln Betting Tips and Predictions: Koln

Koln’s away from is pretty bad, just two wins all season, losing six and drawing one. It’s hard to see them getting anything here other than a hiding that is. And yes their recent record at Dortmund isn’t bad with those 3/5 draws, but they’ve not won there since 1991.

Koln have bigger fish to fry though this season they’re in danger of getting dragged into the relegation zone and the plan is going to be to get as many home wins as they can to ensure survival. Their home form is good though, where they’ve won 4/6 previous matches so they’re hoping to build on that. Koln goalscoring form isn’t great, they’ve drawn a blank in 3/6 previous away matches. Dortmund to keep a Clean Sheet at 2.4 is a decent price, especially since they’ve kept 3/5 Clean Sheets over their five most recent home league matches.

Borussia Dortmund vs Koln Betting Tips and Predictions: Stats

Over Dortmund’s five most recent home matches, they’ve won three and drawn two. Over 2.5 goals has occurred in 4/5, while BTTS has landed in 2/5.

Over Koln’s five most previous away matches, they’ve won one and lost four. Over 2.5 goals have occurred in 3/5, while BTTS has landed in 3/5.

Over 2.5 has some value at 1.36 as you can see above from the Bet Dynamo Insights Page. Over 3.5 at 1.97 is tempting too, having occurred in 3/5 previous Dortmund home matches and also in 3/5 previous away Koln matches.

Borussia Dortmund vs Koln Betting Tips and Predictions: Goalscorers

Erling Haland at 1.44 is the favourite to Score at Anytime here. Look, what more can be said about this young man, he’s simply amazing. But there’s no value there, it might be something to throw in an Acca though.