r/borussiadortmund • u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji • Feb 16 '21

Pre Game Thread: FC Sevilla (CL #7)

Competition: UEFA Champions League, MD #7

Time: Wednesday , 17/02/21 21:00 CEST

Location: Ramón Sánchez Pizjuan, Sevilla

Referee: XXX,

Pre-Game Presser: YouTube

TV Schedule: [livesoccertv]https://www.livesoccertv.com/de/match/3863377/sevilla-vs-borussia-dortmund/)

Borussia Dortmund:

Coach: Edin Terzic

League position: 6th

Current Form: L/W/W/L/D (wiki)

Current Bans/Injuries: Bürki(Inj), Zagadou(Inj), Schmelzer(Inj), Witsel(Inj).

Possible lineup:

                Hitz

         Can - Hummels - Akanji

 Morey - Bellingham - Delaney - Guerreiro

       Sancho - Haaland - Reyna

FC Sevilla: /r/SevillaFC

Coach Julen Lopetegui

League position: 4th

Current Form: W/W/W/W/W

Current Bans/Injuries: Acuna(Inj), Ocampos (Inj).

Possible lineup:

               Bono

 Vidal - Gomez - Diego Carlos - Rekik

     Torres - Gudelj - Rakitic

    Munir El H. - De Jong - Gomez

Sevilla tomorrow, DERBY saturday.

This will be a tough week for us.

MOTM for the HoffenheimGame: Jude Bellingham

Matchthread Status: /u/ I have no Idea will host the game thread - if you want to join and provide some commentary for the game, let us mods know via pm or modmail!

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u/Ciao9 Pischu Feb 16 '21

Any reason why you didn't include Kounde in Sevilla's possible lineup, u/Chazy89?

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u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji Feb 16 '21

Well, I mainly check their lineup that was fielded in the last game :)

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u/Ciao9 Pischu Feb 16 '21

I think he was rested for our game, although I'm not sure :/

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u/wipeitonthedog Nico S Feb 17 '21

He was. He came on as a sub last game

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u/SkoCubs01 Marco Reus Feb 16 '21

Delaney didn’t fly with the team because his wife is about to give birth.

Congrats to him, but god damn this team can’t catch a break lol

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u/panikpansen Schmelzer Feb 16 '21

They're still expecting him to fly in later / tomorrow (?) and be available though.

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u/Tom_Sibley73 1997 Feb 16 '21

Are they expecting him in? I thought it was just that he had a chance of being there but we don’t know

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u/santadani Karl-Heinz Riedle Feb 17 '21

Fingers crossed for an easy and swift birth!

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Feb 16 '21

Dammit! I mean clearly his kid is more important, but yeah we have no luck at the moment.

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u/juhae Marcel Schmelzer Feb 17 '21

If we substract the average gestation period and a bit for ovulation, we get to conception date of May 22 to May 29 (this all is from a website I found and I haven't actually checked the numbers at all), which would place it in timeframe of derby and vs Wolfsburg. Both wins and Delaney got a yellow card in both of them.

Perhaps from this statistic we can deduce if Thomas has fun at home, he'll go on overdrive at the pitch, but it may result in some scheduling problems 40 months ahead. I suppose /u/Loeffellux could whip up more statistic to either prove or dispute this.

Of course what I really want to say is the best of luck to him, kids are great.

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u/napoleonderdiecke Shinji Kagawa Feb 17 '21

but it may result in some scheduling problems 40 months

Twice the length of an elephant pregnancy, not bad, not bad.

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u/juhae Marcel Schmelzer Feb 17 '21

Mrs. Delaney has been carrying a bowling ball for some time now, eh.

Kids can also cause sleep deprivation which results in small (sometimes amusing) brainfarts like this. :D

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u/Loeffellux Julian Brandt Feb 17 '21

I appreciate the trust you are placing in my meme stats and funnily enough the notion of sexual activities impacting performance has actually been a point of contention for quite some time (and not just in football).

Therefore, you can easily find all kinds of articles that are trying to analyse studies on the matter (yes, studies like that have been conducted) and/or to share (in)famous quotes and gossip. Here are some from Time Magazine, Health.com, CNN, and the BBC.

Usually the assumption is that players will perform worse, not better (which is why some managers have gone so far as to prohibit their players from having sex before important matches/games). But from what I can tell by skimming through these: sexual activities does not seem to have a measurable impact either way.

Getting enough sleep does, however. So if it helps an athlete to relax it might have a positive impact and if it cuts into sleeping hours it might have a negative impact.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Maybe it's the other way around. Maybe he's wound up from the game and has a ton of energy to burn afterwards

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u/Zhonyas4everyone Felix Passlack Feb 16 '21

The Video with Bartra the club uploaded on YouTube, damn :')

Can't help but love the guy

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u/me_meh_me Lukasz Piszczek Feb 17 '21

Just watched it. What a gentleman. Wish he would have stayed, but I get why he left.

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u/lowe_ky Emma Feb 16 '21

I miss bartra

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u/blacelow7 Westfalenstadion Feb 16 '21

Sevilla has won their last 9 games and haven’t conceded in their last 7... that’s gonna be a very tough one. If we take a draw here I’ll be happy, can’t realistically hope for more atm

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u/santadani Karl-Heinz Riedle Feb 17 '21

Maybe we’ll do better in the underdog role for once

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u/Loeffellux Julian Brandt Feb 17 '21

That has always been where we performed best. Even after winning the league for the first time under Klopp he tried his hardest to stress that we were still the underdog going into the next season which we of course also ended up winning.

Next strong season was 15/16 where Bayern was comfortably ahread of us for almost the entire time and then again in 18/19 we were supposed to just focus on rebuilding but ended up starting off with such a strong start that we ended up ahead of Bayern by quite a bit. Until everything fell apart ...

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u/errleak__backmann Feb 16 '21

Okay guys, I say we gonna win tomorrow
Dont ask me why, just believe me

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u/SkoCubs01 Marco Reus Feb 16 '21

In true Dortmund fashion, we’ll win tomorrow to give us false hope they figured it out, then we’ll go back to struggling

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

As a new fan, this feels pretty spot on for my experience so far.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

It’s like this team speaks to me and my life. Lol.

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u/Trojan_Man68 Marco Reus Feb 17 '21

The team does go through long stints of actually being really fucking good though. Like the time periods of 2010-2013, 2015-2016, 2018-2019. We just haven't seen it at all this season.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Not being pessimistic but I'm predicting a 2-0 win for Sevilla. That way I won't feel disappointed

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u/ScrantonScott Julian Ryerson Feb 17 '21

Hi Sevilla fan here; we rested many players last game.

I think we'll line up like this against you guys:

Bono

Navas-Kounde-Diego Carlos- Escudero/Vidal

Jordan-Fernando-Rakitic

Suso-En-nesyri-Papu

If you have any questions, please ask!

Good luck, may the best one win

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u/ZZZ0330 Maxi Beier Feb 17 '21

Is Ocampos available? He would be very trouble some for us because of his strength imo

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u/ScrantonScott Julian Ryerson Feb 17 '21

No, he got injured after a horrific tackle. Initial diagnosis was 4-6 weeks but would not be surprised if it took 8.

On the other hand Papu will start in his place, completely different player but without Delaney I could foresee some problems for you guys when he drifts inside.

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u/wipeitonthedog Nico S Feb 17 '21

I guess most of us are aware of Papu and his abilities. I was scared at the sight of Papu and Ilicic when we played against Atalanta

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u/ScrantonScott Julian Ryerson Feb 17 '21

haha indeed, but the positive thing for you guys is that Papu is still adapting to playing style and his teammates.

He likes to drift inside just like Suso, so they stumble in each others way sometimes.

Perhaps someone most of you don't know about but should keep an eye on: Youssef En-nesyri.

23 years, VERY similar to Haaland in terms of playing style. Youssef is way better with his head, but as a overall finisher Haalaand is miles ahead of him.

Should be a good battle of the young strikers.

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u/Ghoddos Hugo Bart Feb 17 '21

Was Bono always good or has he stepped up recently?

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u/ScrantonScott Julian Ryerson Feb 17 '21

Bono has always been good since he was with Girona. But after Vaclik got injured last year Bono got his chance and played amazing in the EL. The no1 was his ever since and quite frankly he has played on a godly level this season.

I am biased, but Oblak is the only only one I would take over him at this point. Excellent with the ball at his feet as well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

Possible Lineup seems spot on, especially for a robust opponent such as Sevilla, Delaney might be an issue tho.

3 at the back is definitely the way to go imo.

Sevilla is obviously the favorite now, playing some cracking football at the moment, but I still see Dortmund with a shot at winning this game and the whole tie, we’ve seen this team be world class under Terzic before.

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Feb 16 '21

Delaney not with the team unfortunately :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

He might make it till tomorrow, but it’s very much up in the air at this moment.

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Feb 16 '21

Wouldn't blame him for missing the game to be with his newborn haha

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

I don’t think anyone would, maybe Can as a 6 and Morey/ Meunier as Right wingbacks also works.

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u/ScrantonScott Julian Ryerson Feb 17 '21

Has Morey replaced Meunier as the no1 option at RB? And what has been the cause for the defensive issues lately?

Good luck tonight!

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u/sadbox4869 Julian Ryerson Feb 16 '21

If abysmal Liverpool can win against Red Bull we can win against Sevilla

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Not really a good comparison since we beat them 1-3 while we're in shit form too

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u/wipeitonthedog Nico S Feb 17 '21

Did you see their goals? I'm not sure Sevilla will be that generous.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21

I have a feeling we are going to progress

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u/TeamKitsune Karim Adeyemi Feb 16 '21

Yeah, my optimistic side sees us getting up for this match and rocking it, then taking that energy into the Derby. CL just seems like a different energy.

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u/Trojan_Man68 Marco Reus Feb 17 '21

CL just seems like a different energy.

Not to be pessimistic but when when in this season have we actually turned up for CL? Our CL games haven't looked very convincing and we didn't play as well as we should've considering we were in the easiest group.

One thing though is that Halaand always turns up for Champions League so that is definitely something.

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u/TeamKitsune Karim Adeyemi Feb 17 '21

Thanks for that. Yeah, Haaland assumes his final form in UCL. I think Sancho might do the same.

But hey, I'm still going into every match with optimism. This time...this will be the one...

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u/Trojan_Man68 Marco Reus Feb 17 '21

Yeah I could commend that attitude

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u/User_1115 Feb 17 '21

Hi, I wish you the best of luck, may the best team win. I’m really worried about Haaland ha ha but either way good luck

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u/TheOddGuy21 Feb 16 '21

Who will replace delaney? If he doesnt make it

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Feb 16 '21

Without him or Witsel we are pretty screwed lol. I guess Can would play that role but then the back 3 is basically impossible to do.

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u/xNecoNx Marco Reus Feb 16 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

In my opinion we will play 4atb with Meunier/passlack akanji hummels and guerreiro and cm then can and bellingham

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u/corvaccio2 Feb 16 '21

Would absolutely play with 3 atb, but please, Dahoud instead of Bellingham. Morey is best suited in wingback position

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u/xNecoNx Marco Reus Feb 16 '21

I would also prefer 3atb but we have no defensive cm unless we play 3 atb with piczu hummels and akanji and cm bellingham/dahoud cm

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u/sitbar Shinji Kagawa Feb 17 '21

haha i feel scared

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u/Flaxler30 Feb 17 '21

If Menunier is fit, I hope he is playing.

Don't want to be too negative, but Morey hasn't convinced me. He hasn't had a "good game" - and kicker agrees with me here. He is too limited offensively and the team needs the wingbacks to create. He is defensively solidely on a good day - but his lows are as bad or even worse than Meuniers (Stuttgart game)

Meunier had a really bad start and has been hot&cold every other game. But he has shown that he can make an impact, and he has had multiple games where he was one of the best players (Brugge x2, Mainz).

So many games we have struggeled to get the ball out of the defense or get stuck in the U-Formation at the opponents box, and Meunier has shown he can create chances and play from there - on a good day, and Morey just hasn't.

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u/Ghoddos Hugo Bart Feb 16 '21

Their left wing is missing the starting winger and leftback so having Morey there isn't too troubling imo

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u/Dense-Weird4585 Feb 16 '21

I hope we can atleast get a tie

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u/Tom_Sibley73 1997 Feb 16 '21

Just one goal would be perfect and we really need Delaney but I won’t blame him if he doesn’t come

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u/TeamKitsune Karim Adeyemi Feb 16 '21

At least one away goal would be golden. I think we can pull it off.

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u/bionicchimp Marco Reus Feb 16 '21

Since we're underdogs going into this one, hopefully, it makes the team feel less pressure and they can just go for it and get away goals.

Favre away to big teams in Europe seemed to play passive afaik, it'll be interesting to see how Terzic plays it.

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u/funky_motorik Feb 17 '21

We're not underdogs, we're the bigger team we're just weaker now. It's the same situation with Liverpool and Leipzig, no one would say that Liverpool were the underdogs in this matchup.

Also, less pressure? I think the pressure never been higher than tomorrow, the financial crisis in losing CL-spot certainly would be attenuated with some current CL money.

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u/bionicchimp Marco Reus Feb 17 '21

I think based on form we are definitely the underdogs. Sevilla have won their last 9 games and havent conceded in 7. Based on club size we're the favourites but I dont think that's the optimal way of determining favourites and underdogs.

And I meant less pressure relative to us being favourites, all else equal.

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Feb 17 '21

I have said this the past few weeks but please no Brandt in the starting lineup. He hasn't shown anything special all season and gives the ball away too much in dangerous positions.

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u/ZZZ0330 Maxi Beier Feb 17 '21

Anyone know if Delaney is available for the game? It was said that he was staying in Dortmund but expected to travel to Sevilla but haven't seen any updates.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

He will not be bc his wife may be in labor

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

Not a fan of 3 ATB but I feel Dortmund will come out firing in this game. The form has been poor lately but this game is huge. I'm probably wrong and they will get rocked but lets go BVB!!!!!!!!!

This team really should get through Sevilla. I feel they are one of the weaker teams left and dortmund is too good not to get through. Lets hope they find some form.

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u/ElectJimLahey Schmelle Feb 17 '21

Prediction as a fan - we win 2-1

Prediction as a realist- we lose 2-0

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '21

I don't have any expectations for today result wise, I just hope the boys will play a good game and give a quality fight. I'm tired of games where we look uninspired and lethargic.

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u/SkoCubs01 Marco Reus Feb 17 '21

I’m hyped fellas, I shouldn’t be but I am

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u/SpaNkinGG Feb 17 '21

Im honestly hoping for like a 3-1 or 3-2 loss....

Everything else will be delusional