Will Gladbach struggle against the FCA’s monster defense?

With Tim Kleindienst, a German national player currently leads the scorer list for the second half of the season. The summer signing from Heidenheim was not only involved in six goals in the last five Bundesliga games, but was also able to score once in each of the matches. If Kleindienst scores in the match between Gladbach and Augsburg on Saturday afternoon, he would be the first professional player for the foals since Oliver Neuville in 2006/07 to score in six Bundesliga matches.

However, the task for Kleindienst and his colleagues will be far from easy, because with the FCA, a strong opponent is traveling to the Lower Rhine, who, firstly, has recently had a really good record against Borussia and, secondly, is currently one of the best defensively in the German top flight. There is no question that the Gladbach v Augsburg prediction of the Seoane team’s home success involves a great deal of risk. For some sports bettors, this encounter could therefore hold some surprise potential.

The bookmakers that enable sports betting with Paysafecard, meanwhile, see the host as a relatively clear favorite, which is partly due to the good form of the men from Mönchengladbach. The home advantage further supports the assessment of the betting providers, so that only odds of a maximum of 1.90 are offered on the home win before the kick-off of the match Gladbach against Augsburg. However, those who prefer to bet on a draw after 90 minutes will find odds of 3.80 at NEO.bet.

Gladbach vs. Augsburg prediction AI

A 50% victory probability roughly corresponds to the classification of the betting providers and thus also to the corresponding betting odds. With an xG value of over 1.5, the “BETSiE” also assumes that the Foals will score at least two goals. So you can decide for yourself whether you follow the Gladbach vs. Augsburg AI forecast for a home win or for two or more goals from the home team.

Gladbach – Statistics & current form

If someone had told the people in charge at Borussia Mönchengladbach in the summer that their team would have two more wins than Borussia Dortmund and two more wins than RB Leipzig after 22 matchdays in the Bundesliga, they would probably have been smiled at. Although the two aforementioned CL participants are of course lagging behind in terms of their ambitions, the satisfactory performance of the Foals to date should not be minimized. Quite the opposite: in the Lower Rhine region, fans, the board and the team are dreaming of a return to the international football stage.

Gladbach wants to make the next big impression in the race for Europe

This hope lies buried in the strong second half of the season so far. Borussia has recorded ten points from five games from match day 18. In the separate second-half table, only record champions FC Bayern are ahead of the foals, who have now been unbeaten in four league games (3-1-0) and, with 34 points in total, are playing the best Bundesliga season of the past five years. The team of coach Gerardo Seoane has already scored as many points as they did in the entire last season!

The team from the Lower Rhine region has done particularly well at home in recent weeks and months. The narrow 1-0 defeat was their only Bundesliga home defeat in the past nine matches. Two weeks ago, they fought hard for a 1-1 draw against Eintracht Frankfurt, with the point split hanging by a thread after a strong second half from the Hessians.

In general, no glamorous football festival is to be expected on Saturday afternoon either, because in six of the nine Bundesliga home games since the end of September, a bet on under 3.5 would have been accepted. Because the defense has noticeably stabilized after conceding eight goals in the first two games of 2025, but the offense is suffering from the absences of instigator Reitz and standard-setter Honorat, my Gladbach vs. Augsburg prediction for the weekend is also for a tough 90 minutes with few goals. For example, you can also bet on a maximum of one goal in the first half for an appealing 1.53 in the Interwetten app.

Probable Gladbach line-up:

Augsburg – statistics & current form

A total of five clubs are in the Bundesliga relegation battle. However, FC Augsburg is not one of them. After a very inconsistent first third of the season, the Fuggerstadt team have increasingly stabilized and now have a cushion of 14 (!) Points between them and the relegation spot. The view of coach Jess Thorup and his protégés can thus look upwards. Incidentally, the Dane will be facing his 50th Bundesliga match as FCA coach at the weekend. The 1.27 points average is better than for all his predecessors.

Augsburg will have the best defense in Europe in 2025

Thorup also has every reason to be happy at the moment, because since the avoidable 1-0 home defeat to VfB Stuttgart in mid-January, the Bavarian Swabians have not lost in the Bundesliga. Augsburg have not left the field in the top German division as losers six times in a row. The last time the FCA had seven consecutive Bundesliga matches without defeat was in 2015/16.

If this streak continues at the weekend, it would result in odds of 2.00 for the double chance X2 bet for the clash between Gladbach and Augsburg. If you combine the supposed underdog’s point win with a maximum of three goals after 90 minutes, Betano even offers a 2.70, which can be played risk-free with the €20 free bet from Betano.

As the centerpiece of the FCA team, the defense has recently emerged. The three goals conceded in seven competitive games in 2025 even correspond to the best value of all clubs from the European top five leagues. Four clean sheets and one goal conceded in the last four BL games also demonstrate the defensive strength. In six of the seven league matches involving the Thorup side since the winter break, the Under 2.5 would have come true. The last two encounters even ended goalless. All of these are indications that suggest value in the Gladbach v Augsburg betting odds on a maximum of two goals after 90 minutes.

Provisional Augsburg line-up:

Gladbach – Augsburg head to head / H2H record

In its own Bundesliga history, FC Augsburg has only celebrated more wins against Werder Bremen and Mainz 05 than against Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Fuggerstadt team has kept the upper hand in five of the last eight Bundesliga matches against the team from the Lower Rhine region, winning twice in a row. The first leg ended 2-1 to the FCA, who could now only manage the season double (win in the first and second legs) against the foals for the second time overall and for the first time since 2014/15.

Augsburg vs. Gladbach tip

With Borussia Mönchengladbach and FC Augsburg, two of the Bundesliga’s strongest teams are facing each other. The foals are in second place in the second half of the season behind Bayern. The FCA has not been beaten in six league games, has even scored four times in a row away from home and kept a clean sheet on four of seven matchdays after the winter break. I therefore expect an evenly matched encounter in which nuances and probably only a few goals will decide the three points.

On the one hand, I think the Fuggerstadters, who have won five of their last eight meetings with the team from the Lower Rhine region, will at least earn a point at Borussia Park. On the other hand, my preferred approach is to place a bet on Under 2.5 between Gladbach and Augsburg. In particular, the remarkable defensive stability of the guests, who have only conceded three goals in 2025, suggests to me that it will be a tough game with few goals. The attractive top odds are 2.18 and we will start with five units.