Borussia eye three in a row in Stuttgart

Borussia Dortmund will be looking to string together three consecutive victories when they lock horns with Bundesliga basement side Stuttgart at the Mercedes-Benz Arena on Friday evening.

Wins over Freiburg and Mainz have hauled Jurgen Klopp’s men off the bottom of the division and three more points in southwest Germany would lift them into a position of mid-table comfort ahead of their Champions League last 16 first leg with Juventus next week.

Eighteenth-placed Stuttgart approach the match off the back of a heartbreaking last-gasp derby defeat to Hoffenheim, in which Gotoku Sakai’s momentary equaliser ensured they ended a run of 446 minutes without a goal.