Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-2 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim: Bundesliga Match Report, 18 October 2026

Eighteenth against seventeenth, five games into the season, with three points between the two clubs and none of them Mönchengladbach's. Hoffenheim took all three on offer at Borussia-Park: Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-2 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. They led 1-0 at half-time and the second half was shared 1-1. Nothing in the record gives the order of those two second-half goals, so it is impossible to say whether Gladbach ever drew level or only pulled one back at 0-2.

The table at kick-off was grim for both, but not equally. Gladbach had lost all five, with eighteen goals conceded and a goal difference of -11: 0-3 at Leipzig, 3-4 at home to Elversberg, 0-5 at Freiburg, 3-4 at home to Mainz and 1-2 at Köln a week earlier. Hoffenheim had three points and a goal difference of -4, and narrower defeats. Three of their four losses were by 3-2, against Köln, Dortmund and Hamburg, and the one win was 2-1 over Stuttgart.

This was another one-goal game, which made four of Gladbach's six defeats by a single goal. The margins were small; the count was six from six.

The fixture's recent history had been wild. Gladbach won 4-0 here in May, Hoffenheim won 5-1 at home in January, and the two meetings before that finished 4-4 and 2-1 to Gladbach. That is twenty-one goals in four games, against three this time.

It was played on the final day of a month in which this site published nothing new, which is why no call of ours attaches to it.

Mönchengladbach stayed bottom and remained the only club in the division without a point: nought from six games, goal difference -12, with eight goals scored and twenty conceded. Hoffenheim doubled their total to six and improved their goal difference to -3, and the gap between the clubs grew from three points to six. It was Hoffenheim's first away win of the season, after defeats at Köln and Paderborn. They had now scored in all six of their games, and three of their four defeats had come by a single goal; this time the one-goal margin fell their way.

Nothing was decided by it. Six games is under a fifth of a 34-game season; 28 rounds and 84 points remained, and no one was relegated, or saved, on 18 October. What it did show was how far both clubs were from last season's level. Hoffenheim finished fifth on 61 points, a European place, and this was only their second win of the new season. Gladbach finished twelfth on 38, nine points above sixteenth place, and six games in they were still waiting for a first point.