In this week 14 match, on Tuesday Nov 8th, Bochum will host Borussia M’gladbach at Vonovia Ruhrstadion in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Bundesliga teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 12 degrees, a perfect day for football. 17th placed Bochum is fresh off their 0-4 loss against Wolfsburg. Felix Nmecha struck first for Wolfsburg in the 27th minute on a feed from Maximilian Arnold, then Ridle Baku added another in the 35th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Bochum couldn’t manage to score, and Wolfsburg took the shutout win. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10, while 7th placed Borussia M’gladbach is fresh off their 3-1 win against Stuttgart. Jonas Hofmann scored the first goal for Borussia M’gladbach in the 4th minute, then Marcus Thuram added another in the 25th minute. Borussia M’gladbach is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season. Last season Borussia M’gladbach won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Borussia M’gladbach is glad to have Marcus Thuram in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 4 goals. Bochum’s most prolific scorer has been Philipp Hofmann. He has netted 2 goals over the last 5 matches
Dominique Heintz and Paul Grave are unavailable to play for Bochum, while Hannes Wolf, Florian Neuhaus, Jonas Hofmann, Torben Müsel, Ko Itakura, Stefan Lainer and Yann Sommer are unavailable to play for Daniel Farke’s team.