Champions League preview: Borussia Dortmund vs. Club Brugge
Los geht es mit der Champions League
Endlich wieder erfolgreicher Fußball aus Deutschland nach dem WM Desaster? Schon wir mal - heute steigen Schalke und Erzfeind Borussia Dortmund in die CL ein. Für Schalke wird es schwer, Borussia sollte Brügge denke ich schlagen können auswärts. Was meint Ihr? Hopp Borussia!
Dortmund and Schalke entering group phase tonight
So today we all are prepared for the Champions League group phase to get started. Two German clubs are playing tonight - Schalke 04 faces FC Porto while local competitor Borussia Dortmund starts in Belgium against Club Brugge.
Borussia will be watched by all Germany since they failed to win a single game in the competition last season so they will be hopefully highly motivated enough to start this season’s campaign with a victory. Last year they crashed in CL and then also experienced a disaster especially hard for a German club - in the last-16 Europa League they did exit to Red Bull Salzburg where our Steemian @modernpastor is playing - sad they missed Championsleague this year (again).
Club Brugge should normally be doable but the German team can not afford to take any team lightly in Europe’s premier club competition especially when they do not play at home.
Line-Up and Match facts
The potential team line-up of my Bundesliga love and Brugge below - it will be a tough one for Borussia given Guerreiro, Toprak, Alcacer, Delaney are unable to play. Mario Götze seems to be out of the system again and young Alexander Isak was told by the UEFA that he is not allowed to play Champions League (different story).
Brugge
Letica - Poulain, Mitrovic, Denswil - Bonaventure, Vormer (c), Vanaken, Rits, Groeneveld - Wesley, Rezaei
Coach: Ivan Leko
Dortmund
Bürki - Piszczek, Diallo, Akanji, Schmelzer - Dahoud, Witsel - Pulisic, Reus (c), Sancho - Philipp
Coach: Lucien Favre
Preview
It seems that Dortmund relies on some key midfielders such as the US guy Pulisic. He celebrates his 20th birthday today and became a key player in Dortmund having produced 12 goals and 20 assists in 99 competitive Dortmund games.
With Witsel Dortmund has an experienced mentally strong player who could make the difference against a club from his home country. Witsel made six appearances as Belgium finished third at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Borussia Dortmund had difficult times in European competitions recently so they won only one of the last 12 competitive European fixtures. Brugge on the other hand only won one of their last nine fixtures against German clubs. This last win was interestingly against Dortmund where they did beat them 2-1 in Brugge during the 2003/04 Champions League third qualifying round.
Prediction or betting?
Not a betting guy usually and also am bad in prediction results but giving it a try! Let us analyse the facts again: Brugge has not won any of their last 10 CL matches, even being reigning champion in Belgium and heading the current league Dortmund should have enough quality to win that. Dortmund has to win especially in view of the upcoming matches against the top teams in the group Atletico Madrid and Monaco. A first win would be good for their self confidence. My predicted score is: Club Brugge 0-3 Borussia Dortmund
Naja am Ende sind eh wieder nur die Bayern das einzige deutsche Team welches weit kommt oder Chancen aufs Finale bzw. den Titel hat....
Moment, wer :-)? Ich hoffe mal nicht - aber ich fürchte Du könntest Recht haben, aber noch hab ich Hoffnung.
Rezaei will not play. He is injured according to my information.
Don't underestimate Brugge at home. I do know that their last CL campaign was a disaster with no games won and a goal difference of -12. But the teams has undergo a metamorphosis. With Vormer they have a box-2-box midfielder, the warrior of the team. With Vanaken they have the creative mind. Also the winger are capable of getting over their man.
I do expect that Brugge will take the first 20 minutes of the game and if they can score in these crazy minutes evertything is possible.
I would go for Brugge +1.
Enjoy the game.
Cheers,
Peter
Shows we Germans do not know a lot about Belgian Football. Coach Favre warned already that this will be a hard one, thanks for the heads up and enjoy a hopefully fab match.
Borussia Dortmund has pretty good team with some really talented players and I think they should normally win this one, but Brugge is playing at home, so my prediction would be 2:2.
Thanks mate - I hope you are wrong
Ich befürchte schlimmstes für die Bundesliga in Europa dieses Jahr. Ich hoffe aber wir trotzdem was reissen.
Gruß
tomtheone
PS: CLUBFAN
Hoffen wir auf das Beste - Gruss vom Lauterer an einen Clubberer 😎
Ein Lauterer - ja Wahnsinn. Hoffe das die roten Teufel bald wieder hoch kommen und wir sie wieder im Max Morlock Stadion begrüßen dürfen. Ein Jammer was mit euch passiert ist - aber als Clubfans mussten wir in den letzten Jahrzehnten auch einiges ertragen.
Derzeit zwar BuLi aber die Duelle mit den ganzen Reißbrettvereinen nerven. In der 2. und 3. Liga ist dafür die geballte Tradition.
Fritz Walter und Max Morlock das passt - drück euch die Daumen.
Steemit ist ja noch weitgehend fußballfrei - was ich schade finde.
Hoffe wir können uns von Zeit zu Zeit wenigstens austauschen.
Gruß aus Nürnberg
tomtheone
Danke danke, wir werden nicht wiederkommen, das Thema ist leider durch. Fußball und anderes gibt es auf Scorum - wenn Du Bock hast schau es dir mal an. Baut auf der Steem Technologie auf und es geht nur um Sport, gibt auch ne deutsche domain inzwischen.
Sei nicht so pessimistisch - logo kommt Lautern wieder nach einer Durststrecke. Wie lautet die deutsche Domain bzw. Website.
Hab die Website gefunden und mich als tomtheone angemeldet. Da muss ich mich aber erstmal durchwursteln.
tomtheone
Prima - bist Du auf Discord? Haben da ne DACH community
Ja - wie lautet denn denn die Adresse?
Hier kommt sie: https://discord.gg/tvZveSU
Congratulations Borussia winn 3-0 . Wow great news . I am so happy . Thanks for sharing @uwelang
Hmmm - I wrote they play tonight and that I would predict 3-0 - no need for congratulations already.
Comfortable win for Borussia Dortmund. I'm going for 3-1.
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I Do not Miss That Game
Borussia plays very badly
yep but it was finally a win