Borussia Mönchengladbach 0-0 SC Paderborn 07: Bundesliga Match Report, 31 October 2026

Mönchengladbach's first three home games this season had produced seventeen goals. The fourth produced none: Borussia Mönchengladbach 0-0 SC Paderborn 07, goalless at half-time and goalless at the end. With no goal to place there is nothing to add to the bare score about how the afternoon unfolded, and the record carries nothing about chances.

Gladbach started the day bottom on three points from seven games, goal difference -11. They lost their first six, including two 4-3 defeats at Borussia-Park by Elversberg and Mainz, before a 3-2 win at Stuttgart the previous Friday brought their first points. Twenty-two goals had gone in against them and they had not kept a clean sheet. Paderborn, newly promoted, arrived thirteenth on eight points with a goal difference of -3 and the opposite profile: six goals scored in seven games, none at all in four of them, and nine conceded.

This was much more Paderborn's kind of game than Gladbach's. It is their second 0-0 of the season after the opening-day draw at Mainz, and their away record now reads three draws and one defeat from four trips, the defeat 3-0 at Dortmund. For Gladbach it is a first clean sheet at the eighth attempt and a first home point, from a side that had let in four at home twice in September.

Paderborn were not in the Bundesliga last season, so there was no recent meeting between the clubs to go on.

The point takes Gladbach to four from eight games and Paderborn to nine. The five-point gap between them is unchanged, and so are both goal differences, -11 and -3. A draw between the clubs who began the day eighteenth and thirteenth moves very little on its own, and with more than three-quarters of the season still to play it would be wrong to read anything decisive into it at the bottom.

Measured against last season, Gladbach's position is the stark one. They finished twelfth on 38 points; four from eight is half a point a game, a rate that would not get them halfway to that total. The last two results, a win and a clean-sheet draw after six straight defeats, make up the best eight days of their season, but two games are not a recovery, and twenty of the twenty-two goals they have conceded came in the opening six.

Paderborn's nine points from eight is a reasonable return for a promoted club, and they are unbeaten in three. Most of their games have been tight, five of eight decided by a goal or not at all, and this was one more of them.

The site was not publishing that weekend, so the whole eighth round went by without a pick from us, this match included.