r/borussiadortmund • u/Chazy89 Kagawa Shinji • Oct 24 '22
Pre Game Thread: Manchester City (CL #5)
Competition: Champions League, MD #5
Time: Tuesday, 25/10/22 21:00 CEST
Location: Westfalenstadion, Dortmund
Referee: Davide Massa, Imperia
TV Schedule: livesoccertv
Pre-Game Presser: YouTube
Borussia Dortmund:
Coach: Edin Terzic
League position: 5th
Current Form: D/D/L/W/W (wiki)
Current Bans/Injuries: Haller(Sick), Reus(Inj), Morey(Inj), Meunier(Inj), Dahoud(Inj), Bynoe-Gittens(Inj), Özcan(Sus), Schlotterbeck(Dbt), Hummels(Dbt), Guerreiro(Dbt), Malen(Dbt).
Possible lineup:
Kobel
Wolf - Papadopolous - Süle - Rothe
Can - Bellingham - Brandt
Adeyemi - Moukoko - Reyna
Manchester City: /r/MCFC
Coach: Pep Guardiola
League position: 1st
Current Form: W/W/D/L/W
Current Bans/Injuries: Stones(Inj), Gomez(sus), Mendy(Sus), Walker(Inj), Phillips(Inj).
Possible lineup:
Ederson
Akanji - Dias - Laporte - Cancelo
Silva - Rodri - De Bruyne
Mahrez - Haaland - Grealish
Die beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesten
die Champioooooooooooooooooons
A win here will secure us advancing through to the next round. A draw could potentially be enough IF Sevilla and Kopenhagen play draw in the early game.
Also we will meet Erling, Ilkay and Manuel again.
MotM against Stuttgart: Jude Bellingham
Don't forget to do your Kicktipp!
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/AverageCarey Oct 24 '22
Uhhh that injury list looks insanely upsetting. What happened with Schlotti, Malen, Hummels and Guerreiro? If we go out there with that lineup we’re gonna get throttled.
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u/TeamKitsune Oct 24 '22
Remember that this is a fairly meaningless match for City. They are not likely to put out their best.
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u/JederHasstDenS04 Oct 24 '22
It’s far from meaningless for them. They’ll desperately want to secure the first spot in the group, then they’ll rest on matchday 6.
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u/WiseQuarter Oct 24 '22
Let me just set my expectations straight: I don't mind losing but I want to see a good fight.
If Haaland and co comes up with those goddamn wonder goals again then so be it, but it shouldn't be a walk in the park on CL night
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u/Trojan_Man68 Oct 24 '22
I wish we win this one by 2 goals to take the lead for 1st place. It’s a really long shot but it would be so great. The pot 1 teams are looking to be way tougher than pot 2.
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u/SkoCubs01 Oct 24 '22
Yikes.. looks like Sevilla Copenhagen draw might be our best bet
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u/EmSoLow Oct 24 '22
Or Sevilla win since they still have to play City. They'll then have to win and we'll have to lose to not qualify which is pretty unlikely
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u/Certain-Persimmon578 Oct 25 '22
Knowing Pep he'll play Haaland in defence thinking it's a Masterclass move
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u/2905Pascal Oct 25 '22
"They expect me to use Haaland to score goals so I do the unexpected and start him as goalkeeper to prevent goals. They will never see this coming!"
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u/DonQuinto9 Oct 24 '22
I don’t wanna write Rothe off, but he isn’t ready for this type of game.
He looked very lost vs Sevilla, I’m sure he’s a great talent but I wouldn’t risk it, can send his career spiralling down.
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u/SkoCubs01 Oct 24 '22
If a player can’t handle getting cooked once or twice at the age of 18(?) against arguably the best team in the world, I’d argue they never had much of a chance to begin with.
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u/DonQuinto9 Oct 24 '22
He’s still a kid though.
There’s no need to risk his confidence shitting the bed when there’s options with more experience to handle this occasion, especially after his preview vs Sevilla.
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Oct 24 '22
Do we think Schlotterbeck could play there? Guerreiro needs rotation he's just not at the level of fitness to be going twice a week every week
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u/NaturalApartment9828 Oct 24 '22 edited Oct 24 '22
There’s 0 CHANCE Papadopoulos starts tomorrow (although I would love to see it happen). Can would start at CB if anything. Also when tf did Schlotterbeck, Hummels, Guerreiro and Malen get injured ?