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A 1-0 win away at VfB Stuttgart on 19 September is the Borussia Dortmund result that matters most heading into Friday's Bundesliga meeting with SV Werder Bremen, because it was the first time in this run that Niko Kovac's side had to win without scoring freely. They managed it anyway. That is the problem Daniel Thioune has to solve at Signal Iduna Park.
Full details and the call are on the Borussia Dortmund vs Werder Bremen match page.
Dortmund have won their last six matches across all competitions, scoring 17 and conceding 4. Before Stuttgart there was a 3-0 home win over SC Paderborn 07, a 3-2 Champions League win over Villarreal, a 3-2 win away at TSG Hoffenheim, a 5-0 DFB Pokal win at Hamburg-Eimsbütteler Ballspiel Club 1911 and a 2-0 home win against Hamburger SV.
Two of those were 3-2. This is not a side that shuts games down early, and Hoffenheim showed they will concede twice and still expect to win. The Stuttgart result suggests they have added the other way of doing it.
Three wins, one draw and two defeats from their last six, with 11 scored and 9 conceded. The headline is the 3-1 home win over RB Leipzig on 5 September, which is as good a result as any Bundesliga side outside the top few has managed this autumn.
The two defeats came earliest: 0-1 at home to Auxerre in a friendly on 15 August, then 1-4 away at SC Freiburg on 30 August. Since Freiburg they have not lost - the Leipzig win, a 1-1 draw away at 1. FC Köln and a 3-2 home win over FC Augsburg on 19 September. A side that beats Leipzig and loses by three at Freiburg is hard to read, but the trend since the end of August is upward.
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