Dortmund and APOEL hopes hang by a thread
After a pull in Cyprus that did small good to possibly Borussia Dortmund or APOEL FC’s hopes of surpassing from Group H, a teams accommodate again in Germany meaningful time is quick using out to get behind into contention.
• The 1-1 pull in Nicosia during slightest got both sides off a symbol after dual defeats apiece, yet with Real Madrid CF and Tottenham Hotspur FC 6 points forward in a standings, zero reduction than a win will do for both clubs during a BVB Stadion Dortmund.
• Neither organisation will be means to finish in a tip dual if they remove this game.
Match background
Dortmund
• This is Dortmund’s initial home compare opposite opponents from Cyprus.
• 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).
• That home better by Monaco finished Dortmund’s seven-match dominant home run in Europe (W5 D2); they were also beaten 3-1 by Real Madrid in Germany on matchday two.
• Dortmund scooped 7 points during home in final season’s organisation stage, overcoming Sporting Clube de Portugal 1-0 and Legia Warszawa 8-4 – a latter outcome a many goals in a UEFA Champions League match.
• BVB have won usually one of their final 8 European games (D2 L5) and had mislaid 4 in a quarrel before to matchday three.
APOEL
• This is APOEL’s ninth divided compare opposite German opponents. They have mislaid 7 of those prior fixtures, including a final two.
• The Cypriot side’s solitary win opposite a German club, home or away, came opposite Berliner FC Dynamo in a 1980/81 European Champion Clubs’ Cup initial round, when they won a second leg 2-1 in Nicosia. APOEL but bent out, carrying gone down 3-0 in a initial diversion in Berlin.
• Furthermore, APOEL have avoided better in usually 3 of their 16 matches opposite German teams; a Dortmund draw, that Berlin success and a 1-1 pull divided to FC Schalke 04 in a 2008/09 UEFA Cup initial turn second leg (2-5 aggregate).
• APOEL’s final fixtures opposite a Bundesliga bar also came opposite Schalke, in a 2015/16 UEFA Europa League organisation theatre (0-3 home, 0-1 away).
• The Nicosia outfit have scored only dual goals in divided games with Bundesliga opposition, surrender 23.
• APOEL have mislaid 6 of their final 8 European divided fixtures, succumbing 3-0 during Real Madrid on matchday one. APOEL have never won divided in 12 UEFA Champions League matches, organisation theatre to final, yet they did pull 5 of their initial 6 – before losing all of a successive six.
• APOEL have not won a diversion in a UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final, given beating Olympique Lyonnais 1-0 in a turn of 16 second leg on 7 Mar 2012. Their successive record is D2 L9.
• The Cypriot bar are in a organisation theatre for a fourth time, carrying formerly competent in 2009/10, 2011/12 – when they went all a approach from second subordinate turn to quarter-finals, losing to Real Madrid – and 2014/15.
• APOEL have won by from a second subordinate turn to strech this organisation stage, violence Luxembourg’s F91 Dudelange (2-0 on aggregate) and FC Viitorul of Romania (4-1). In a play-offs they overcame SK Slavia Praha 2-0 during home before a goalless divided draw.
• Thwarted in a play-offs by FC København 12 months ago, APOEL went on to finish initial in their UEFA Europa League group, subsequently ousting Athletic Club 4-3 on total in a turn of 32 before losing to Anderlecht 1-0 both home and away in a final 16.
Coach and actor links
• Marc Bartra helped FC Barcelona to home (1-0) and away (4-0) victories opposite APOEL in a 2014/15 organisation stage. Carlão, Vinicius, Nuno Morais, Stathis Aloneftis and George Efrem played for a Cypriot club.
• Nuri Şahin was in a Real Madrid side that kick APOEL in a 2011/12 quarter-finals. Nuno Morais and Nektarios Alexandrou represented a Cypriot team.
• Sokratis Papastathopoulos plays alongside VfB Stuttgart’s Anastasios Donis, son of APOEL manager Giorgos Donis, for Greece.
• Andriy Yarmolenko helped Ukraine to a 1-0 accessible win opposite Cyprus on 24 Mar 2016; Efrem and Antreas Makris played for a losing side.
• Shinji Kagawa was in a Japan organisation that scalped Cyprus 1-0 on 27 May 2014, with Efrem and Giorgos Merkis featuring.
• Have played in Germany:
Boy Waterman (TSV Alemannia Aachen, 2011/12).
Efstathios Aloneftis (FC Energie Cottbus 2007/08)
Mikaël Poté (1. FC Dynamo Dresden, 2011–14).
Igor de Camargo (VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, 2010–13; TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, 2013)
• Have played together:
Igor de Camargo Marco Reus (VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach, 2010–12)
Facundo Bertoglio Andriy Yarmolenko (FC Dynamo Kyiv, 2011/12)