Hertha Berlin v Borussia Dortmund Betting Tips [19 December 2021]

Hertha Berlin will host Borussia Dortmund on Match Day 16 in Bundesliga, hoping to get some stability to their campaign after a poor run. The home team goes to this game ranked 14th with 18 points while second placed Dortmund have 34 points. Getting to this game, Hertha will hope for a big improvement after their 4-0 away loss to Mainz. It will be tough against this Dortmund side, and especially seeing that they’ve failed to score twice in the last five matches. In three of those matches, Hertha have conceded two or more goals and they only have one clean sheet in the five games.

Borussia Dortmund have three wins in their last five matches; their only loss in that run was against the league leaders, Bayern Munich. The highlight of their recent games has been the return from injury of Erling Haaland, and his scoring form. The Norwegian returned from injury way ahead of time, and has been on fire, scoring six in the last five matches. He is not the only in form forward at the team; Donyell Malen, Julian Brandt and Marco Reus have all made for a lethal attack. In three of Dortmund’s last five matches, they’ve scored three goals or more. They’ve scored in all the five, a total of 14 goals, averaging 2.8 goals a game, across all competitions.

Borussia Dortmund have a far better run compared to Hertha Berlin and it is based on their strength in attack in three of their last five matches, they have scored three or more goals. In the last five matches, they have averaged 2.8 goals per game. They rarely lose when they hit three goals and contrasting this with Hertha Berlin’s recent form, go for Dortmund to score over 2.5 goals and win.