Tottenham need home alleviation for Dortmund visit
Tottenham Hotspur FC aim to belatedly find their feet during Wembley as they flog off another UEFA Champions League debate during home to Borussia Dortmund.
• With White Hart Lane being redeveloped, Tottenham are personification European home games during Wembley for a second deteriorate in a quarrel – and carrying won usually once in 4 European matches during their proxy home in 2016/17, they can ill means a repeat.
• Dortmund have turn used to participating in a UEFA Champions League knockout rounds though with holders Real Madrid CF also in Group H, they will recognize a significance of a certain outcome in north London.
Previous meetings
• Dortmund hold lean when these sides met in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League turn of 16, winning both legs for a 5-1 total triumph. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Marco Reus (2) got a goals in a 3-0 first-leg feat in Dortmund before Aubameyang struck twice some-more during White Hart Lane, Son Heung-Min scoring a satisfaction for a hosts.
The line-ups during White Hart Lane on 17 Mar 2016 were:
Tottenham: Lloris, Trippier, Alderweireld, Wimmer, Davies (Rose 13), Dier, Mason, Chadli, Alli (Carroll 70), Lamela (Onomah 74), Son.
Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek, Subotić, Papastathopoulos (Durm 54), Schmelzer, Castro, Ginter, Weigl, Mkhitaryan (Kagawa 72), Reus (Pulišić 60), Aubameyang.
Match background
Tottenham
• This is Tottenham’s third time in a organisation theatre and a second incursion in as many seasons – the initial time in their story they have managed uninterrupted European Cup campaigns.
• In 2010/11, their UEFA Champions League debut, Tottenham went all a approach to a quarter-finals, losing 5-0 on total to Real Madrid. Twelve months ago they came third in their organisation and changed into a UEFA Europa League, where they fell 3-2 on total to KAA Gent in a turn of 32.
• Tottenham took usually 3 points from their 3 organisation home games in 2016/17, losing to AS Monaco FC (1-2) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen (0-1) before a 3-1 win opposite PFC CSKA Moskva on matchday six. They were held 2-2 by Gent in a UEFA Europa League and have won usually one of their final 5 European home fixtures.
• Tottenham were dominant during home to Bundesliga clubs (W6 D1) before succumbing to Dortmund in 2016; a Leverkusen retreat means they have now mislaid their final dual such matches.
• Mauricio Pochettino’s side – 2016/17 Premier League runners-up – were held 0-0 in Leverkusen final term.
Dortmund
• Dortmund, contesting a organisation theatre for a 12th time and a sixth in 7 years, have reached a knockout theatre on their final 4 UEFA Champions League appearances. In 2016/17 they beat SL Benfica 4-1 on total in a turn of 16, subsequently losing 6-3 to Monaco over dual legs (2-3 home, 1-3 away).
• On matchday one 12 months ago Dortmund triumphed 6-0 during Legia Warszawa – their biggest-ever European divided success. They also won their subsequent divided game, at Sporting Clube de Portugal (2-1), before feat eluded them in their subsequent 3 on a road, including defeats in a final two.
• Dortmund have been interconnected with Tottenham’s north London rivals Arsenal FC in a organisation theatre on 4 occasions; they mislaid 3 of those divided matches though won 2-1 during a Arsenal Stadium on 22 Oct 2013.
• On Dortmund’s final outing to England they let trip 2-0 and 3-1 leads to remove 4-3 during Liverpool FC in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg, going out 5-4 on aggregate. Their record in England is now W4 D1 L6.
Coach and actor links
• Davinson Sánchez played underneath new Dortmund manager Peter Bosz during AFC Ajax in 2016/17.
• Ömer Toprak, Gonzalo Castro and Heung-Min Son were team-mates during Leverkusen between 2013 and 2015.
• Have played in England:
Nuri Åžahin (Liverpool FC, 2012/13)
Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United FC, 2012–14)
André Schürrle (Chelsea FC, 2013–15)
• Reus and Mario Götze any scored in Dortmund’s 4-1 victory away to an Ajax side featuring Toby Alderweireld and Christian Eriksen in a 2012/13 organisation stage.
• Kagawa and Jan Vertonghen both struck in Manchester United’s 3-2 Premier League detriment during home to Tottenham in Sep 2012.
• Harry Kane and Eric Dier found a net in England’s 3-2 accessible win opposite Germany in Mar 2016; Götze, Reus and Schürrle played for Germany.
• Eriksen got Denmark’s idea in a 1-1 accessible pull with Germany in Jun 2017.
• Son scored 5 times in his 5 matches opposite Dortmund with Hamburger SV and Leverkusen.
• These clubs have dual former players in common: midfielder Steffen Freund went to White Hart Lane from Dortmund in 1998; defender Lee Young-Pyo left Spurs for Dortmund in 2008.