Champions League Finals less than a year ago, Borussia Dortmund is hosted by Borussia Moenchengladbach in Bundesliga on Sunday, hoping to live their chances for European qualifications.

Dortmund Sit your eighth in league, six points from the fourth place with the remaining five games.

After withstanding their worst shower season in decade, Dortmunden’s sudden fall becomes still confusing against the background of their stellar showing Barcelona Tuesday.

Dortmund led Barcelona as Catalonia 3-1 were beaten, with Serhou Guirassy Achieving Hat-Trick. Two additional targets went for offsode.

Dortmund’s destiny, however, sealed after a bad view in the first leg, when they lost 4-0.

Just like last year, when they came across the heel in the league while they beat Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Newcastle and PSV Eindhoven on the way to Wembley, Dortmundene ambitions are frustrated by their inconsistencies.

I miss the champions league would have huge consequences for Dortmund, a club that rely heavily on European income.

Only one of the victories in the callback calls under Jurgen Klopp 2010. and 2011. year, Dortmund failed in the Champions League.

The symbol of the inconsistency of the club is the central return Niklas Sule. Champions League winner 2020 with 2020 BayernSuele was signed in anchoring Dortmund Defense, but only periodically reproduced his top shape.

Speaking after the match Barcelona, ​​Suele was in a loss to explain Dortmunde’s unpredictability.

“The question we are facing was, why not played that way in the Bundesliga game? It’s something we need to ask again before we play Gladbach, so we can see in a similar show.

“We have an incredible amount of quality, it is not for discussion. The pure determination we have shown today, the way we put a team as Barcelona – one of the best teams in Europe – under so much pressure.

“We definitely have to accept criticism about our inconsistency. But we look for solutions, we talk about it every day.”

Sitting two points in front of Dortmund, Gladbach is also in a mix of a European place. The victory on Saturday could send Dortmund as a sixth and inside the striking distance from the top four, in the final phases of the season.

At the top of the table Bayern Munich can alleviate disappointment after leaving on Wednesday I step by stepping approaching titles with a victory in Heidenheim.

Bayern sitting six points clean from another set Bayer Leverkusenwith the remaining five games.

For Leverkusen, nothing a little of the fairy collapse will not keep their dreams live to defend their title.

Although such a collapse is unlikely, it is not unprecedented, although it does not make happy reading for lovers of Leverkusen. In 2001/02, Leverkusen was five points in front of the remaining three matches, but lost two last three to finish a second.

Coach Steffen Baumgart and his unions of Berlin accusations can be taken for the last step to ensure top football next season with a victory on Saturday against Stuttgart at home.

As a former Union player, Baumgart’s signing criticized as “Boy’s appointment jobs, but the 53-year-old turned things in Koepenik.

Union picked up 11 points in five games in an untouched leg against Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Eintracht Frankfurt, Wolfsburg and Freiburg.

“We want to play our own game successfully as if we were the last time we did”, ” Baumgart said on Thursday, adding, “We may take that final, trying step.”

Key stats

11 in 12 – Bayern Munich won 11 in the last 12 Bundesliga titles.

Four in a row – Wolfsburg lost the last four, leaving his European hopes to hang over a series.

23 – Harry Kane It has 23 goals leagues, six clean other placed Patrick Schick.

Fixes (15:30 CET unless specified):

Saturday

Heidenheim vs Bayern Munich, Mainz vs Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen vs Bochum, Freiburg vs Hoffenheim, RB Leipzig vs Holstein Kiel, Union Berlin and Stuttgart (18:30)

Sunday

Augsburg vs Eintracht Frankfurt, Borussia Dortmund vs Borussia Monchengladbach (17:30), St Pauli vs Bayer Leverkusen (19:30)