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Borussia Dortmund are in a bit of a purple patch, losing three of their last four Bundesliga matches. That’s more than they had lost in their previous 28 league matches. Two of these losses came against Bayer Leverkusen and Hoffenheim, two sides still fighting for a place in next season's Champions League, whereas their defeat last time out to Borussia Mönchengladbach secured safety in the Bundesliga for The Foals.

Dortmund have already secured Champions League football next season but will be looking to finish their season strongly and return to the high standards they’ve set throughout the season. They boast the joint-most clean sheets in the Bundesliga this season with 14, and have shipped fewer goals than any other side in the league. A win on Friday night would also secure second place for BVB.

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Eintracht Frankfurt have struggled for form all season but have been much poorer since the start of 2026. They have only won four of their 17 league games since the turn of the year. Frankfurt have also conceded the third most goals in the league this season (60) with only relegation-fighting Wolfsburg and Heidenheim shipping more.

The Eagles are in desperate need of a win on Friday night. After Stuttgart progressed to the DFB-Pokal final, it means seventh place in the Bundesliga will earn a Europa Conference League play-off position. Frankfurt currently sit in eighth place, a point behind Freiburg in seventh. A loss for Frankfurt on Friday night, followed by an Freiburg win in Hamburg on Sunday, would see Frankfurt fail to qualify for European football for the first time since the 2019/20 season. A win and the battle for seventh would go down to the final match of the season.

Julian Brandt will play his last home match as a Borussia Dortmund player on Friday night after he announced in March he’d be leaving the club. Brandt has seven goals and four assists this season and 43 goals and 50 assists in his 216 Bundesliga appearances for Dortmund. He’ll be looking to add to this tally and give the fans a proper goodbye on Friday night.

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Despite not winning any of their last three Bundesliga matches, Can Uzun has been a bright spark for Eintracht Frankfurt with a goal and an assist in his last two matches. His goal last time out against Hamburg was his first since Frankfurt met Dortmund in a 3-3 draw in January and he’ll be looking to be back amongst the goals on Friday.

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BBC iPlayer

Matches coming up:

Friday 8 May - Borussia Dortmund v Eintracht Frankfurt

Saturday 16 May - TBC v TBC

Where to watch

Kick off: 19:30 BST

Venue: Signal Iduna Park

Watch BBC coverage on iplayer or the BBC Sport website.

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Two giants of German football, Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt, battle it out in our penultimate Bundesliga fixture of the season – a game you can watch live on BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer (Friday, 19:30 BST kick-off).

This fixture has been played out 113 times between the two sides, with Dortmund walking away with all three points on 56 occasions and Frankfurt winning 35 times. Dortmund will take confidence in the fact they have only lost one of their last 10 meetings with The Eagles. We can also expect goals on Friday night too, with this fixture only ever ending in a goalless draw twice, and the last time it did was back in April 1990.