Dortmund face wilful Tottenham fixture
Borussia Dortmund’s already slim hopes of reaching a UEFA Champions League turn of 16 could disappear altogether on matchday five, when opponents Tottenham Hotspur FC have a possibility to bind initial place in Group H.
• Dortmund have collected usually dual points from their initial 4 fixtures and are turn on points with APOEL FC. Tottenham, by contrast, have 10 points – including 3 from a 3-1 matchday one better of Dortmund – and requisitioned their place in a knockout stages with an considerable feat opposite Real Madrid CF final time out.
• Dortmund contingency therefore win and wish Madrid do not do further divided to APOEL to stay in quarrel for a top-two place.
• Tottenham would safeguard initial place with a win, or if they during slightest compare Madrid’s outcome due to their higher head-to-head.
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, Heung-Min Son scoring a satisfaction for a hosts.
• The line-ups during a BVB Stadion Dortmund on 10 Mar 2016 were:
Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek, Hummels, Schmelzer, Durm, Castro, Bender (Subotić 58), Weigl, Mkhitaryan, Reus (Kagawa 82), Aubameyang (Adrián Ramos 82).
Tottenham: Lloris, Trippier, Alderweireld, Wimmer, Davies, Carroll, Onomah, Mason, Chadli (Dembélé 58), Eriksen (Lamela 65), Son (Kane 76).
Match background
Dortmund
• The German bar are nonetheless to win in this season’s organisation stage; during home they lost 3-1 to Madrid on matchday two before being hold 1-1 by APOEL in their final fixture.
• BVB are but a win in their final 3 European home games (D1 L2). They have won usually one of their final 9 European matches (D3 L5), home and away, and had mislaid 4 in a quarrel before to drawing during APOEL on matchday three.
• Dortmund’s record during home to English clubs is W6 D4 L1; a solitary better came during a hands of Tottenham’s north London neighbours Arsenal FC, who were 1-0 winners in a 2013/14 organisation stage.
• Contesting a organisation theatre for a 12th time and a sixth in 7 years, Dortmund 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 AS Monaco FC 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).
• 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 providing a many goals in a UEFA Champions League match.
Tottenham
• Mauricio Pochettino’s side have collected 4 points from their dual divided games this season, winning 3-0 during APOEL before a 1-1 pull in Madrid on matchday three.
• Tottenham had mislaid their prior dual European divided games before winning during APOEL. They picked adult 4 points on their travels in a 2016/17 organisation stage.
• The Lilywhites have won 3 of their final 13 European divided matches (D4 L6).
• Tottenham’s record in Germany is W3 D2 L6; that 2016 better during Dortmund is their solitary detriment in a final 4 visits (W1 D2). They many recently drew 0-0 during Bayer 04 Leverkusen in final season’s organisation stage.
• Their heaviest European better came in Germany – an 8-0 detriment during 1. FC Köln in a 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup.
• This is Tottenham’s third time in a organisation theatre and a second incursion in as many seasons – the initial time they have managed uninterrupted European Cup campaigns.
• Twelve months ago, Tottenham 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.
Coach and actor links
• Davinson Sánchez played underneath 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.