Dortmund face daunting charge during Real Madrid
Real Madrid CF can finish no aloft than second in Group H as they ready for a latest complement of their adversary with Borussia Dortmund, who are attempting to explain a section’s UEFA Europa League subordinate spot.
• Real Madrid have 10 points, 3 behind leaders Tottenham Hotspur FC, though they can't pass a English side due to their defective head-to-head record.
• Dortmund have dual points, turn with Tottenham’s final opponents APOEL FC, who drew 1-1 both away and home opposite a German club. In box both matchday 6 games are drawn Dortmund will be competent due to higher idea disproportion in all matches. In box both Dortmund and APOEL win or lose, a final rankings will count on a series of goals scored and conceded in these final dual matches.
• The Spanish team won 3-1 in Dortmund on matchday two, finale a three-game winless run opposite a Bundesliga side.
Previous meetings
• The clubs’ record from 6 prior meetings in Spain is 4 wins for Madrid, nothing for Dortmund and dual draws.
• In final season’s organisation stage, both contests finished 2-2. Madrid twice led in Dortmund, by Cristiano Ronaldo and Raphaël Varane; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and, in a 87th minute, André Schürrle replied for Thomas Tuchel’s BVB.
• Dortmund cumulative initial place in a section by entrance from 2-0 down to waylay a indicate in Spain on matchday six. Karim Benzema’s double (28, 53) had put Madrid in command, though goals from Aubameyang (60) and Marco Reus (88) gave a visitors a profitable point.
• The line-ups during a Santiago Bernabéu on 7 Dec 2016 were:
Madrid: Navas, Carvajal, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo, Casemiro, Modrić (Kroos 63), Lucas Vázquez, James RodrÃguez, Benzema (Morata 85), Ronaldo.
Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek, Bartra, Papastathopoulos, Schmelzer, Weigl, Castro (Rode 80), Pulišić (Emre Mor 61), Dembélé, Schürrle (Reus 61), Aubameyang.
• The span also met in a 2013/14 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, Madrid prevalent 3-2 on total en track to lifting a trophy. Gareth Bale, Isco and Ronaldo warranted Carlo Ancelotti’s Madrid a 3-0 first-leg lead before Dortmund, coached by Jürgen Klopp, narrowed a necessity with a 2-0 victory in Germany by dual Reus strikes.
• The line-ups for that initial leg on 2 Apr 2014 were:
Madrid: Casillas, Carvajal, Pepe, Ramos, Fábio Coentrão, Alonso, Modrić, Isco (Illarramendi 72), Bale, Benzema (Morata 75), Ronaldo (Casemiro 80).
Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek (Schieber 67), Papastathopoulos, Hummels, Durm, Kehl (Jojić 74), Nuri Şahin, Grosskreutz, Mkhitaryan (Hofmann 64), Reus, Aubameyang.
• The teams also faced off in a organisation theatre of a 2012/13 foe when Dortmund finished above Madrid with a assistance of a 2-1 home win – Robert Lewandowski and Marcel Schmelzer scoring possibly side of Ronaldo – and a 2-2 draw in Madrid where Reus again featured on a scoresheet.
• The clubs were reunited in a semi-finals that deteriorate and Dortmund won a initial leg 4-1 during home, Lewandowski removing all 4 goals and promulgation his organisation by notwithstanding a 2-0 reverse in Madrid where Benzema and Sergio Ramos scored.
• Roman Weidenfeller is a unique survivor of a sides’ meetings in a 2002/03 second organisation stage, when Madrid won 2-1 during a Santiago Bernabéu and afterwards drew 1-1 in Dortmund. Zidane played in both matches.
• Dortmund sporting executive Michael Zorc and youth-team coordinator Lars Ricken played in Dortmund’s 1997/98 UEFA Champions League semi-final detriment to Madrid (0-2 away, 0-0 home)
Match background
Real Madrid
• Madrid came second in their organisation in 2016/17, behind Dortmund – a initial time given 2012/13 they had unsuccessful to tip their section. They will finish second again this season, to Tottenham this time.
• Zinédine Zidane’s charges have collected 4 points during home in this season’s competition, beating APOEL 3-0 before a 1-1 pull opposite Tottenham.
• Madrid’s home record opposite Bundesliga clubs is W24 D5 L3. Cristiano Ronaldo’s hat-trick helped a Merengues to a 4-2 extra-time win opposite FC Bayern München in final season’s quarter-final second leg.
• The Merengues have won 32 of their final 38 UEFA Champions League home matches, losing usually once – 4-3 to FC Schalke 04 in their 2014/15 turn of 16 second leg, when they still prevailed 5-4 on aggregate.
• That better by Schalke was Madrid’s unique retreat in their final 16 home games opposite German teams (W12 D3). Ronaldo strike another hat-trick against VfL Wolfsburg, for a 3-0 win in a 2015/16 turn of 16 that overturned a 2-0 first-leg deficit.
• Madrid have not mislaid during home in a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre given a 3-2 retreat opposite AC Milan on 21 Oct 2009. Their home organisation record given is W21 D3 – with Dortmund, twice, and Tottenham this deteriorate a usually visitors to equivocate better during a Bernabéu.
• Madrid have mislaid usually dual of their final 24 European fixtures, many recently a 3-1 better during Tottenham on matchday four, winning 16 and sketch six.
• Champions of Europe for a 12th time in 2016/17 – pleasantness of their 4-1 final win opposite Juventus – Madrid aim to turn a initial organisation given Bayern München in 1976 to explain 3 unbroken European Champion Clubs’ Cups. AFC Ajax (1971–73) and Madrid themselves (1956–60) are a usually other sides to have won 3 or some-more in a row.
• In 21 prior participations in a UEFA Champions League, Madrid have never unsuccessful to swell to a final 16.
Dortmund
• It is usually one indicate on a highway for Peter Bosz’s organisation in Group H, from that pull during APOEL; they lost 3-1 during Tottenham on matchday one.
• The Bundesliga outfit have won usually one of their final 10 European matches (D3 L6).
• Dortmund have won usually once in 13 prior visits to Spain (D5 L7). That unique success was a 1-0 feat during Club Atlético de Madrid in a 1996/97 organisation stage, pleasantness of a Stefan Reuter goal.
• On matchday one 12 months ago Dortmund triumphed 6-0 during Legia Warszawa – their biggest-ever European divided victory. They also won their subsequent divided match, at Sporting Clube de Portugal (2-1), before feat eluded them in their subsequent 3 on a road, including defeats in a final two.
• Defeat during Tottenham on matchday one meant Dortmund had mislaid 3 unbroken UEFA Champions League divided games; they afterwards drew during APOEL on matchday three.
• Dortmund, contesting a organisation theatre for a 12th time and a sixth in 7 years, got to a knockout theatre on their final 4 UEFA Champions League appearances.
Coach and actor links
• Zidane was in a Juventus organisation defeated 3-1 by Dortmund in a 1996/97 UEFA Champions League final.
• Nuri Şahin spent 2011/12 with Madrid, creation 12 appearances.
• Åukasz Piszczek’s Poland suffered a UEFA EURO 2016 quarter-final loss on penalties opposite Ronaldo’s Portugal.
• Nuri Şahin was a half-time surrogate in a Turkey organisation beaten 3-0 by a Spain of Sergio Ramos in a UEFA EURO 2016 organisation stage.
• André Schürrle and Toni Kroos any scored twice as Germany kick a Brazil side containing Marcelo 7-1 in a 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-finals.
• Kroos played 17 times opposite Dortmund for Leverkusen and Bayern, scoring one idea (W5 D3 L9).
• Marc Bartra’s usually tour for FC Barcelona opposite Madrid came in their 2-1 Copa del Rey final better in 2014.
• Mario Götze was in a Bayern side beaten by Madrid in a 2013/14 UEFA Champions League semi-finals.
• As a Bayer 04 Leverkusen actor in 2012/13, Dani Carvajal mislaid home (2-3) and divided (0-3) to Dortmund.
• As an Eintracht Frankfurt actor final season, Jesús Vallejo available a win and better opposite Dortmund in a Bundesliga, and mislaid a German Cup final 2-1.
• International team-mates (non-Germany/Spain):
Cristiano Ronaldo Raphaël Guerreiro (Portugal)
• Have played together:
Dani Carvajal Ömer Toprak, Gonzalo Castro, André Schürrle (Bayer 04 Leverkusen, 2012/13)
Toni Kroos Mario Götze (Bayern, 2013/14)
• Borja Mayoral spent 2016/17 with Wolfsburg.