Borussia Dortmund vs Heidenheim tips: BVB to hit their stride against Bundesliga new boys
- Sergiu Baltuta
- 31 August 2023
The third week of the new Bundesliga season kicks off on Friday night with the first ever top-flight meeting between last season’s runner-up, Borussia Dortmund, and newly-promoted Heidenheim.
It promises to be an intriguing encounter, and Tipstrr football expert Sergiu Baltuta takes a deeper look at where he perceives the best betting value to be.
Date, Kick-off time and TV coverage
Bundesliga, Friday September 1, kick-off 19:30, live on sky Sports Football
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Dortmund have picked up four points from their opening two games, but life among the German elite has proved tough for the team from Baden-Wurttemberg, who have yet to register their firstever Bundesliga point.
The team led by Edin Terzic are yet to spark in the new campaign, managing to grind out a narrow 1-0 home victory against Koln, thanks to a late winner from Dutch striker Donyell Malen, who also rescued a point for Dortmund by bagging a second-half equaliser in last week’s trip to Bochum.
The Black and Yellow have yet to lose any competitive home game in 2023, and indeed lost only once at Signal Iduna Park in the whole of the last Bundesliga season.
Spanning both seasons, Dortmund have now gone 16 games unbeaten in the Bundesliga, and eleven games without defeat in all competitions.
The team led by Frank Schmidt debuted in the Bundesliga with a 0-2 reversal at Wolfsburg, with two first-half goals sealing their fate early on.
What followed in their first home game last weekend was arguably worse, as they missed a penalty before opening up a two-goal lead against Hoffenheim, only for their lack of experienced game management to allow them to leak three goals in the final 13 minutes, with a last-gasp penalty condemning them to a harrowing 3-2 defeat..
Heidenheim’s first goal in the Bundesliga was scored by the 24-year-old defender Jan-Niklas Beste, who urned from villain to hero after failing to convert from the penalty spot earlier on.
Beste is a product of Borussia Dortmund’s youth academy, but he would undoubtedly carry hefty odds to repeat the feat against his boyhood club.
