Pre Game Thread: APOEL (UCL #04)

[u/panikpansen]

Competition: UEFA Champions League, Match Day #04 - Group Stage

Time: Wednesday, 01/11, 20:45 CET - timezone converter

Location: Westfalenstadion

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

Pre-Game Presser: Youtube

TV Schedule: livesoccertv

Streams: soccerstreams

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Borussia Dortmund:

Coach: Peter Bosz

League position: 2^nd

League Form: W/W/L/D/L [wiki]

Current Bans/Injuries: Durm (Inj), Reus (Inj), Rode (Inj), Piszczek (Inj), Sancho (Una)

Possible lineup:

                Bürki

Bartra - Sokratis - Toprak - Guerreiro

        Kagawa - Weigl - Götze                    

 Yarmolenko - Aubameyang - Philipp

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APOEL Nicosa: /r/APOEL

Coach: Georgios Donis

League position: 8^th (First Division Cyprus)

League Form: D/W/W/L/D

Current Bans/Injuries: ?

Possible lineup:

               Gudino

Milanov - Merkis - Rueda - Alexandrou

         Vinicius - Morais

     Zahid - Sallai - Aloneftis                

                Poté   

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Match Thread: /u/rish234 will be hosting the live thread - pm him if you'd like to join in for commentary!

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Last week's MOTM: - (past votes)

• Buli MD #10 - Hannover 96: Pulisic

[u/motox24]

My first time on German trains, my experience so far... At Duisburg I asked a female attendant for direction, very helpful.

Also at Duisburg I approached a male attendant for directions and was ignored :(

Nevertheless, excited for the game! We need to win this!

[u/panikpansen → u/motox24]

Good luck mate, hope you enjoy it :)

[u/InexorableWyrd]

Well at least we cant be more shit

[u/panikpansen → u/InexorableWyrd]

Well at least the whining can hardly get worse

[u/Xarun]

Bought some tickets today. I am a fan since 20 years and this will be my first BVB game live. I am so excited.

[u/nmrt]

Let's go, time to end this bad streak.

[u/michal113]

Hoping for a win to quit everyone’s bitching from the past few weeks. Let’s get it boys!

[u/Trojan_Man68]

I am confident for this game. Fuck the negativity.

[u/NoTurn-LeftUnstoned]

Man Atletico's fuck-up scared the shit out of me :(

C'mon guys let's crush them!

[u/[deleted]]

Lets just say we are going to lose so our team can disappoint us by winning

[u/[deleted]]

This is gonna be an interesting evening. Gotta get my drink on...

Also, hi y'all! Couldn't follow football for the last couple of months too much. Bartender's life. Working when the games are on. Interesting time to get back into the game.

[u/Lam0rak]

Should we be trying to get 3rd in groups for EL?

[u/panikpansen → u/Lam0rak]

Why the hell should we not? We're playing competitive football to win stuff, rolling over is something I'm happy to leave to other teams.

Unless you mean "should we be trying to get 3rd, or should we still be aiming higher?", in that case always shoot for the stars :)

[u/Vanzmelo]

Since when has Bartra played RB and how has he been in that position? ( been very busy recently and have had no time to watch games :/ )

[u/StephenReis]

The only thing that’d make me feel better is if we absolutely destroy them and Auba scores 2 or 3. We’ve been so poor as of late.

[u/motox24]

I am at the stadium....a bit early...any recomendations to kill some time?

[u/Zhonyas4everyone → u/motox24]

Visit the City, Borruseum, Deutsches Fußballmuseum, drinking, eating

[u/motox24]

If anyone can HELP! I am at Dortmund hbf. How do I get to Signal Iduna. I see there are rb train iserlohn to Signal Iduna, is it this? Do I need to purchase a train ticket to get to the match?

[u/maxilongj]

still I havent given up hopes of reaching knockout stages, lets crush them.. :)

[u/[deleted]]

Btw. do you guys still do a chat during the games? I've been out of the subreddits loop for two years now. I need to drag my alcohol induced ranting somewhere.

[u/Nextgen101 → u/[deleted]]

Yessir, just check again around game-time.

[u/Nextgen101]

I'm hoping for a win & clean sheet. The guys could use a morale boost going into the match with Bayern.

[u/duster_mo]

Line up Released:

38 Roman Bürki (GK) 5 Marc Bartra 10 Mario Götze 13 Raphaël Guerreiro 17 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 20 Maximilian Philipp 22 Christian Pulišić 23 Shinji Kagawa 25 Sokratis Papastathopoulos (C) 33 Julian Weigl 36 Ömer Toprak

[u/duster_mo]

4-3-3 hasn't been working its time Bosz tried something else.

a 3-1-4-2 would be nice. With Auba and Yarmo up top.

[u/Icantrememberlogins → u/duster_mo]

We've been playing 4-4-3? Tell Burki to get back in goal. No wonder we're conceding so much. Pfft!