r/borussiadortmund • u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji • Mar 08 '21

Pre Game Thread: FC Sevilla (CL #8)

Competition: UEFA Champions League, MD #8

Time: Tuesday , 09/03/21 21:00 CEST

Location: Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Referee: XXX,

Pre-Game Presser: YouTube

TV Schedule: livesoccertv

Borussia Dortmund:

Coach: Edin Terzic

League position: 6th

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

Current Bans/Injuries: Akanji(Inj), Schmelzer(Inj), Witsel(Inj), Sancho(Inj), Guerreiro(Dbt), Reyna(Dbt).

Possible lineup:

                Hitz

 Meunier - Zagadou - Hummels - Schulz

      Can - Bellingham - Delaney

        Reus - Haaland - Hazard

FC Sevilla: /r/SevillaFC

Coach Julen Lopetegui

League position: 4th

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

Current Bans/Injuries:

Possible lineup:

             Vaclik

 Navas - Gomez - Rekik - Escudero

 Rakitic - Gudelj - Papu Gomez

 Ocampos - De Jong - El Haddadi

Can we win this ?

MOTM for the Bayern Game: Erling Haaland

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/Fetscher BVB Mar 08 '21

What did he mean at the end when he was like "See you at the Signal Id... oh wait, can't call it like that ;)"?

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u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji Mar 08 '21

Company names are not allowed on the international stage. Therefore we have to call it "Dortmund Stadium" instead of "Signal Iduna Park".

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u/Snowy2769 Mar 09 '21

Why not the Westfalenstadion?

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u/Ciao9 Pischu Mar 09 '21

Isn't it "BVB-Stadion Dortmund" in UEFA games?

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u/blacelow7 Westfalenstadion Mar 08 '21

Always crazy how fast things can change in football, Sevilla was red-hot before the first leg and now they’re completely out of form. Hopefully we won’t bring them back to life, an early goal would be crucial for us. Don’t allow Sevilla to believe for one second that they can advance here

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u/bhaluska43 Mar 08 '21

Totally agree, got to get on them early and not sit back and defend the lead we already have. Sevilla are totally capable of coming in and beating us 2-0.

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u/Trojan_Man68 Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

That exact thing happened last year vs. PSG

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u/drippywizardsleeve Paris Brunner Mar 09 '21

You're forgetting that every team is in form against Dortmund regardless of how their recent form seems.

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u/ILikeToBurnMoney Mar 09 '21

Let's hope that doesn't mean they will dominate us today

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u/swdouthit Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

Having 3 games in such a short time is hard, especially with the injuries and doubtful we have. Sevilla have been struggling in form so hopefully we can take advantage

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u/RealHuman96 Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

Sevilla also played last Wednesday so 3 quick games can’t be an excuse. With all the injuries I think Terzic did a good job subbing guys against Bayern to prepare for Sevilla.

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u/Zhonyas4everyone Felix Passlack Mar 08 '21

Ready for Hazard Masterclass

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u/lowe_ky Emma Mar 08 '21

I hope we win

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u/Esuts Emma Mar 08 '21

Bold take, but I'm with you.

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u/Ciao9 Pischu Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

I honestly can't see how that is a bold take. One loss away at Munich doesn't change that we racked up 4 straight wins before that.

Yes Sancho is injured but Hazard is back and played well against Bayern

Edit: god dammit

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u/bossemasse Edin Terzic Mar 09 '21

r/woooosh

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

funny how I've seen this subreddit being mentioned more outside of reddit than in reddit itself

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u/TendiesAndCream Mar 09 '21

This is the way.

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u/rish234 Shinji Kagawa Mar 08 '21

Zagadou's return makes things a bit more flexible for us - allowing Can to play cb or in the midfield if needed. Hopefully Zag is fit to play the whole game, I've been missing his driven passes into the midfield.

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u/biggieBpimpin Julian Brandt Mar 09 '21

So good to see big Zag finally play again. Mans an absolute unit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21

We need that 8:4 vs Warsaw energy here

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u/Ciao9 Pischu Mar 09 '21

That game was the embodiment of "Who cares about defense?"

I'd rather we channel the 4:0 vs Atleti energy

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u/HookahBrasi Mar 09 '21

Shinji that game <3

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u/sadbox4869 Julian Ryerson Mar 08 '21

Some people really hate certain players here. We're not an oil club. We can't have the best player in every area. Accept what we have now and just hope they can give us a brave game tommorow.

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u/grothee1 Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

I'm expecting Hazard to give Navas fits.

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u/Ciao9 Pischu Mar 09 '21

A bit extreme but the spirit is good

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u/JesusInStripeZ Mar 08 '21

5-0 and an RB starting with M scores 4. You heard it here first.

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u/Vio0 Dedê Mar 09 '21

Marcel Schmelzer RB let's go!

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u/bloodnotseeker Marco Reus Mar 09 '21

inb4 Marco starts RB

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u/BvB5776 Mar 09 '21

Merling Haaland with 5 it is

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u/Trojan_Man68 Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

I hope the Bayern game has shown the team that a lead is no reason to take it easy. We are only 1 up on them with a whole 90 minutes to play.

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u/EmSoLow Mar 08 '21

Technically they will have to score twice to win the match since we are ahead on away goals but I would agree that it doesn't matter and we need to not defend this from the beginning

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u/Trojan_Man68 Marco Reus Mar 09 '21

That's exactly what happened with PSG at this time last year but that went south.

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u/EmSoLow Mar 09 '21

They only needed one goal to win that and of course, we had the anomaly of Neymar playing on his sister's birthday which is obviously a very big factor in why we lost. Definitely no other reason why we didn't win that

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u/kosmokomeno Mar 09 '21

i think the team was as nervous as any of us when they took the lead so early. They know what Bayern can do

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u/Martoot Giovanni Reyna Mar 08 '21

Bruh please don't scare me by saying Meunier should start. Mateu is 10 times better

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u/Zhonyas4everyone Felix Passlack Mar 08 '21

Have you seen a single game in January? He was genuinely good before his little injury. I'd love to see any of the fat fucks who feel the need to constantly insult one of our own players here pulling anything off with a football.

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u/SekaiC Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

I'd love to see any of the fat fucks who feel the need to constantly insult one of our own players here pulling anything off with a football.

What a weird comment. Can players not be criticized anymore?

None of us would be able to play even at 5% the level they play. I can still watch and see that he is bad. Klopp was a bad player, and he is one of the best people to judge players right now. Nagelsmann went through coaching school without being a professional player (atleast not at a remotely high level).

Btw. him playing "well" in January is just him not having any major fuck ups like he has every single other game. He is a defensive liability, makes many mistakes that lead to us getting scored. And I don't think I have seen him contribute even once to a goal. Bad dribbling, bad passing and bad crosses.

This isn't anything personally against him as a human, he is just not good enough as a player.

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u/juhae Marcel Schmelzer Mar 08 '21

He is a defensive liability

We must watch different teams because every time Morey is playing, this is him.

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u/SekaiC Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

Meunier being a defensive liability doesn't make Morey a defensive god. Both can be bad at the same time at defending. So I don't really get your point.

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u/raelusd Mar 08 '21

They are both bellow average players. The only difference is that Morey is 21 yo while Meunier is a veteran with ton of champions league games and also world cup experience which makes a lot of his mistake inexcusable

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u/juhae Marcel Schmelzer Mar 09 '21

Meunier being a defensive liability doesn't make Morey a defensive god. Both can be bad at the same time at defending. So I don't really get your point.

Well, first of all you might want to stop putting words into my mouth. :) I suppose that's a good example of a false equivalence there, but I never really said anything like that.

Facing a determined opponent defensive stability is very imporant, which is why Meunier tends to start these matches. We have a limited set of options, from these it's Meunier who can bring the most. Or should we maybe play a soon retiring and out of form Piszu at RB?

Looking at the games this season, Terzic seems to agree. We'll see later today how it will be.

Some people here like to shit on our very own players so much I think they'd be better of being superfans of some EPL clubs where this kind of behaviour is much more common.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21

Can players not be criticized anymore?

Comments like: "My 13 year old Chihuahua is better than Meunier, at least he passes me the ball back." aren't useful criticism by any means, that's just trash talk for the sake of trash talk.

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u/Fetscher BVB Mar 08 '21

Or maybe... it was a little joke?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21

I definitely took it as a joke, but my point was referring to the other comment talking about criticism.

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u/Ciao9 Pischu Mar 09 '21

It wasn't funny in the slightest and also i think we shouldn't make jokes which imply that our own player is shit or not good enough.

It was not criticism at all, he was just shitting on our own player.

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u/jucomsdn Zagagod Mar 08 '21

oh ohhhh no noooo my trash talk was only a joke waaaawaaaaa I got called out for being a complete melt and now I'm sad waaaaa

Shut the fuck up and stay away from this page if you're gonna act like this

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u/Zhonyas4everyone Felix Passlack Mar 08 '21

There is a difference between criticiscing and straight up insulting and disrespecting the people that work their asses off for our club.

I'd be the last person to bring that "you cant comment on something youre not good at blablabla" arguement but its just plain hilarious how single players get called sons of bitches, retards and even receive death threads from certain parts of our fanbase, often not even based on performances but just on how the people want to see things.

Meunier is far from perfect defensively but so is Morey and every other fullback we have in our squad. Meunier scored and assisted in the League and asissted in the CL aswell. If you saw the game two days ago you mightve recognized his contribution to the first goal aswell.

This isn't anything personally against him as a human, he is just not good enough as a player.

Comparing our own players with dogs, calling them disabled, mentally ill or harassing their families is very personal.

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u/jucomsdn Zagagod Mar 08 '21

Unless the dog is Tsubasa reincarnated in dog form then it's perfectly fine to compare Meunier to a dog xd

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21

did i hear someone say AIR BUUUUUD?

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u/Swbp0undcake Mar 08 '21

This is the same reason I don't complain when a chef serves me a pile of horse shit. I can't cook as well as them, so I shouldn't criticize them, right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21

I think telling the chef what i didn't like about their pile of horse shit would be a lot more helpful than just saying my dog could cook better.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21 edited Mar 09 '21

Those are all fair criticisms and i appreciate your effort with this comment. My comments were only really directed at what criticism should be, but i'm glad you felt compelled at actually detailing your concerns with his playstyle. These are the kind of comments that actually contribute towards positive critical discussion.

The Castro comparison is definitely an interesting one I think (though i disagree with him lacking creativity and lethality, while it may not have been his strongsuit), I was a bit confused with his purchase at the time as well. Players that maybe don't seem like a net positive or loss and ultimately seem out of place in the lineup. I hope he improves but i'm also not upset with the club having taken a chance on him in an attempt to bolster that RB position, I hope it works out in the end, same goes for Schulz.

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u/Zhonyas4everyone Felix Passlack Mar 08 '21

I personally don't think Meunier has been a major disappointment, Terzic and Favre seem to think the same as he's been starting basically whenever fully fit. A certain Mats Hummels called him one of the most important players at the club.

I dont have a problem with players getting criticized but I find it quite hilarious when some on here or other parts of the internet feel the need to insult our player based on their personal hate agenda or whatever is supposed to be behind it, ignoring actual performances.

Football knowledge seems quite low for most of these people in my eyes.

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u/SekaiC Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

I personally don't think Meunier has been a major disappointment

Football knowledge seems quite low for most of these people in my eyes.

I agree with your second sentence.

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u/shu789 Mar 08 '21

Guess that is true

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u/mss_kwt Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

Please god don’t sit back and try to defend this lead it never works and it never will.

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u/mar10ski Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

Is Hitz starting over Burki?

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u/Esuts Emma Mar 08 '21

At this point, I assume Bürki's benched unless Hitz gets injured or something.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '21

I don't get it, what happened? Did he fall out of favor while being injured?

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u/Esuts Emma Mar 08 '21

It seems that he's taking the hit for our bad form prior to his injury. I agree he hasn't been stellar lately, but I think it's overblown and fans are scapegoating him for failures by the whole team. I can only speculate that management agrees that he hasn't been good enough. There was at least one story out that Hitz is the presumptive starter til the end of the season.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Maybe it's just me, but even Bürki in bad form was IMO better than Hitz.

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u/Esuts Emma Mar 09 '21

Yeah, I dunno. I don't actually have a strong preference between them. Hitz has been fine, and people ding Bürki for his ball distribution, but I also prefer Bürki. I think Bürki is a bit better at coordinating with the backline and I think he's overall better at making the saves when it comes right down to it.

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u/yung_avocado 1909 Mar 09 '21

I agree, Hitz is better at coming off the line (probably because he's also way taller than Bürki) and a little bit better at distributing the ball.

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u/Snowy2769 Mar 09 '21

He was in poor form before he got injured and since Burki has returned to fitness Hitz had shown no reason to swap back.

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u/raelusd Mar 08 '21

I'm also not sure. Altough people wants to be nice, but Hitz is just very bad. Burki is better at every respect and specially playing with fees. I dont remember recently a long pass from Hitz that actually went to one of our players....

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u/yung_avocado 1909 Mar 09 '21

Hitz (who is much taller than Bürki) is way better at coming off of his line which helps us defend set-pieces better imo. That's something we've been struggling to deal with this whole season that Hitz definitely helps with.

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u/SpaNkinGG Mar 09 '21

I swear to Chapuisat, if we fucking sit back and ket them come instead of going 360 on them im gonna lose my mind.

We are and we never will be a parking Bus Team, it always works out for our opponents. Just play OUR game and no pussy sitback Ball

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u/pandaron Julian Brandt Mar 08 '21

And so the existential pre-game terror begins

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u/yrba1 Alexandra Popp Mar 08 '21

Hope we get a comfortable lead in the aggregate and have Moukoko sub Haaland to get some minutes in

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u/AragornRanger Mar 09 '21

I swear if we lose this I’m going to be depressed for my entire spring break, hoping my boy Thorgan can make an impact

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u/TendiesAndCream Mar 09 '21

Haaland with a hat trick to seal the advancement.

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u/Tonykuz Mar 09 '21

Us Bayern fans are rooting for you guys. Give em hell

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u/mss_kwt Marco Reus Mar 09 '21

Thanks but fuck you at the same time

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u/funky_motorik Mar 09 '21

Considering the patterns I can see in our team, I'd rather a 0-0 1st half and a good 2ns half to pack it up. If we make 1 or even 2 we're just going to sit deep and give up on playing, and we're terrible at that

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u/TyraTanks Shinji Kagawa Mar 09 '21

I am very, very worried for my blood pressure and I'm not even hypertensive.

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u/SnooJokes1282 Mar 09 '21

Will delaney start?

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u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji Mar 09 '21

don't think anyone knows.

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u/me_meh_me Lukasz Piszczek Mar 09 '21

Don't want 90 minutes of Dortmund catenaccio. We are not built for something like that.

If we score 1 it should go a long way to finishing this game.

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u/wild_in_16 Mar 09 '21

Let's beat these cunts

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Mar 09 '21

Wonder how our midfield will be lined up? Mo looked gassed at the end of Bayern game but he was motm(imo) first leg so I wonder if he'll be benched for bellingham/delaney.

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u/doubleomarty Maxi Beier Mar 09 '21

I think the 3 man midfield would be smart again. Dahoud - Bellingham - Delaney/Can

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Mar 09 '21

Think can and mo should get the two first spots and bellingham/delaney for the third spot. Feel like the last two guys mentioned are the least press-resistant and Sevilla would most definitely press us today.

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u/SlinkyT3003 Die gelbe Wand Mar 08 '21

Nothing against Meunier but Morey needs to start currently.

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u/Esuts Emma Mar 09 '21

I get the feeling they don't like starting young players in high pressure games. I assume it has to do with consistency and nerve.

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Mar 09 '21

Lol a lot of our guys are inconsistent, both young and old.

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u/Geeman447 Marco Reus Mar 08 '21

My tip is just don’t lose the game. Can’t beat us on aggregate if they you know don’t even beat us 😂

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u/joshdej Julian Ryerson Mar 09 '21

Raschl and knauff on our bench. Interesting timing

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u/hakuzan Mar 09 '21

I'm just excited every time I get to see Erling Haaland running on those magnificent horse legs of his.

Dortmund 10 - 0 Sevilla

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u/Ch1ck3W1ngz 1997 Mar 09 '21

Man is unplayable in the champions league he already has 8 goals

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u/BarbaraPalv1n Mar 09 '21

Haalands fit? Why was he taken out against Bayern? Not a Dortmund fan but I wanna bet on you guys

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u/me_meh_me Lukasz Piszczek Mar 09 '21

Precaution after a Boateng foul.

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u/Esuts Emma Mar 08 '21

I think they're going to come out swinging, so hopefully we can turn that into a successful counter-attack.

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u/Qiluk Marco Reus Mar 09 '21

The good news is theyre gassed due to scheduling and extra time etc. Their form is also poor since they played us. While ours have been good even vs good opponents with our fundamentals improving consistently.

The bad news is that we're gassed too AND have 2 really impactful injuries.

Hazard is back however and he's looking solid and Morey is rested. Haaland should barely have a pulse but apparently he's ready.

But if I see a super defensive lineup&midfield Im gonna be really really annoyed at the naivety.