Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund combine a high-end attack with the strongest defensive record in this four-team comparison. Bayern Munich are the only side scoring at a clearly higher rate, but Dortmund sit ahead of Stuttgart and RB Leipzig for attacking output while conceding fewer than everyone else. The profile is not of a wild, open Bundesliga side; it is of a team whose results are built as much on control as firepower.

Dortmund’s discipline becomes more of an issue away from home, where their yellow-card rate rises and the only red-card pattern appears. It is not the profile of an especially reckless side, but the away figures suggest they are forced into more stopping actions when they cannot dictate territory.

The biggest wins, 4-0 at home and 3-0 away, show Dortmund have enough attacking range to put games beyond opponents when they establish control. Their heaviest defeats, 3-2 at home and 2-1 away, are not collapses, which reinforces the sense that their floor is relatively high even when the performance level drops.

The corner numbers underline how different Dortmund are at home. They win a heavy volume of corners in their own stadium and concede relatively few, while away from home that flips towards a much more even, sometimes passive, territorial balance. For Celtic, that is a useful warning: if Dortmund pin a side in, the pressure tends to show up quickly in set-piece volume.