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What a way to start the New Year- second place Borussia Dortmund travel to Eintracht Frankfurt as the Bundesliga resumes after its winter break - a game you can watch live on BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer (Friday - 19:30 GMT kick-off).

Dortmund have bragging rights when it comes to this fixture, winning half of every match they’ve played against Frankfurt (W56, D21, L35), and haven’t lost back-to-back encounters since 2016. We can also expect some goals, with their last five meetings in the Bundesliga producing 18 goals and you have to go as far back as 1990 for the last time the match ended in a goalless draw.

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Eintracht Frankfurt fans will be keeping an eye out for their new signing Younes Ebnoutalib. The German striker has joined from Elversberg where he was the top goalscorer in the Bundesliga 2. The 22-year-old has been compared to German legend Miroslav Klose - he is surely one to look out for!

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Julian Brandt has already found the net against Frankfurt this season, drawing Dortmund level in their DFB-Pokal win in October. The attacking midfielder is his side’s second top goalscorer this season with eight goals in all competitions and has scored two of Dortmund’s last five.

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Eintracht Frankfurt are struggling to find form this season. Although they only had two more points at this stage last season, they had won four games in a row twice and were sat 3rd in the league. This season, they only have seven Bundesliga wins to their name.

They are also conceding a lot of goals. They have the second most goals against them in the Bundesliga this season, shipping 30 goals in their first 15 matches. They have only managed to keep out their opponents three times, all of which have come at home.

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Borussia Dortmund, however, are one of the most consistent teams in the league. They are on an eight-match unbeaten streak, with five wins and three draws in that time, and have only lost once all season- to league leaders Bayern Munich.

They are also hard to score against. They have kept eight clean sheets in the league this season, the joint most with Bayern Munich. Having only conceded 12 goals in the league all season, Frankfurt will have to work hard to break down Dortmund’s steely back line.

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Matches coming up:

Tuesday 13 January – Hamburger SV v Bayer Leverkusen

Friday 16 January - Werder Bremen v Eintracht Frankfurt

Friday 23 January - St. Pauli v Hamburger SV

Friday 30 January - Köln v Wolfsburg

Friday 6 February - Union Berlin v Eintracht Frankfurt

Friday 13 February - Borussia Dortmund v Mainz 05

Friday 20 February - Mainz 05 v Hamburger SV

Friday 27 February - Augsburg v Köln

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