Borussia Dortmund

Dortmund profile as one of the stronger all-round teams in this group, but not the most explosive. They rank behind Bayern Munich for scoring power overall and at home, yet they are the best defensive side in the sample and the only one conceding at a genuinely elite rate. That balance is the key point: Bayern are more destructive going forward, but Dortmund give up less than Bayern, Stuttgart and RB Leipzig, which makes them a more controlled opponent even if their attacking ceiling is a touch lower.

Dortmund are not an especially ill-disciplined side overall, but they are clearly more combative away from home. Their yellow-card rate rises noticeably on the road, and the only real red-card risk in the data also comes away from Dortmund. That points less to a reckless team than to one that has to defend more transitions and manage more awkward spells when they leave home.

Dortmund's biggest results suggest a team with a high floor and a solid, if not freakish, ceiling. A 4-0 home win and a 3-0 away win show they can dominate opponents when momentum is with them, but the defeats are more revealing: their worst home loss was only 3-2 and their biggest away defeat only 2-1. That tells you collapses are rare. Even when Dortmund lose, they generally stay in the game.

The corner numbers draw a sharp line between Dortmund at home and away. At home they generate heavy territorial pressure, winning 7.2 corners per match and conceding very few, which is exactly what you would expect from a side pinning opponents back. Away from home that edge softens considerably, so set-piece volume looks less like a constant strength and more like a function of home control.