Holstein Kiel vs SC Freiburg

SC Freiburg and Holstein Kiel have only previously met twice in professional football. The Storks won 2-1 at home in the second round of the 2018/19 DFB-Pokal, while Freiburg secured a 3-2 home victory earlier this season.

SC Freiburg have only won one of their last seven Bundesliga games away at league debutants (D2, L4): 2-1 at Greuther Fürth in May 2013. They have lost each of their last three such fixtures, scoring two goals and conceding nine. Their most recent trip to a top-flight debutant saw them lose 3-2 in Heidenheim last season.

SC Freiburg are unbeaten in four Bundesliga games, claiming 10 points (W3, D1) – no team has picked up more since the start of matchday 29. SCF are even on a six-game undefeated run away from home (W4, D2), their longest streak since the turn of the year in 2012/13 (also 6) – they can now equal their club record if they avoid defeat in Kiel (7 games from 1997 to 1998 – including a season in BL2 in between).

Holstein Kiel have won back-to-back Bundesliga games for the first time (3-1 in Augsburg, previously 4-3 against Gladbach), exactly as many victories as they managed from their previous 15 league matches combined. Dortmund are the only other team to have taken maximum points from the last two matchdays. The Storks are also on a three-game unbeaten run for the first time in the top flight (W2, D1).

Fourth-place SC Freiburg currently have a goal difference of -3 – no side to have been in the top four after 32 matchdays has ever had a worse goal difference. SCF are just the third club to be in the top four at this stage of the season with a negative goal difference (previously only KFC Uerdingen in 1985/86 with -1 and Hertha BSC in 1999/2000 also with -3).