# Elversberg's goals have not travelled since the second matchday

Elversberg have built their first Bundesliga season at home, where they have won three of four and twice scored four. Away they have not scored since the second matchday, and the next trip is to the defence that has conceded fewest in the division.

Preview · Bundesliga
Editorial board · 6 November 2026

- Borussia Dortmund v Elversberg
- Kick-off: 2026-11-07 14:30 UTC
- Ground: Signal Iduna Park
- Status: To come

Elversberg's best away game since Vincent Wagner took over ended 4-0 to Leipzig last month, by his own account. "It could be similar this time," he said, "that we play a new best away game and lose the match again."

At home the newly promoted side have been one of the stories of the season: three wins from four, among them 4-3 against Augsburg and, last week, 4-1 against Mainz, their biggest Bundesliga win. The goals have stayed there. Since winning 4-3 at Mönchengladbach on the second matchday, Elversberg have not scored away: a goalless draw at Schalke, then defeats at Union Berlin and Leipzig. They are seventh with 13 points.

Dortmund are a hard place to change that. They have conceded six goals in eight league games, the fewest in the Bundesliga, and are level with Bayern on 18 points, unbeaten and behind only on goal difference. What they lack is Serhou Guirassy, who strained a thigh against Real Betis on Wednesday. Niko Kovač named Fabio Silva, who has scored in each of the last two games, and Maximilian Beier to fill the space, and Konstantinos Karetsas, 18, came on for Guirassy against Betis and scored the winner.

A Dortmund thread runs through the visitors. Ole Book, Dortmund's sporting director since March, spent eight years at Elversberg, and Cole Campbell, who came through the Dortmund academy, joined them in the summer and scored a stoppage-time volley against Mainz. Around 8,000 supporters are expected to follow, more than half the population of Spiesen-Elversberg. They travel with their coach's own summary: "We have no chance, and as always we will try to make use of it."

## Our call

The league's tightest defence against a side that has not scored on its travels since the second matchday makes this a comfortable Dortmund win.

## Coming in

Dortmund beat Real Betis 2-1 in the Champions League on Wednesday after a 2-2 draw at Bayern, and are second on 18 points, level with Bayern and unbeaten. Elversberg beat Mainz 4-1 in their last league game, days after going out of the cup at home to Darmstadt, and are seventh with 13 points.

## Between them

The clubs have met once, in the cup in October 1981, when Dortmund won 4-1 in Saarbrücken; this is their first league meeting.

## The hinge

Elversberg have scored four goals in three of their eight Bundesliga matches, one of them away, at Mönchengladbach.

## Missing

Borussia Dortmund: Serhou Guirassy (thigh strain), Emre Can (cruciate ligament), Giannis Konstantelias (cruciate ligament), Justin Lerma (muscle). Elversberg: Jan Gyamerah (thigh), Luis Seifert (ankle ligaments), Tom Zimmerschied (ankle); doubtful: Noah Darvich (muscle).