Borussia Dortmund (A) - CL QF | Pre-Match Thread

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2-2 with us leading, they scoring late to equalise on the night but we go through convincingly (I hope)
 
I watched half of the 2nd half of Stuttgart v Dortmund. Cracking end to end match which Dortmund won 3-2. Haaland did very little. Bellingham and Hummels went off. Hummels went off at half time before I started watching so I don't know if he was injured or not. I noticed they have a lot of young players. Knaupf (sp?) scored a good goal. They play without fear.

They will probably score against us because they are a confident side who do create a lot of chances but I fancy City to score against them too. I think Jesus, De Bruyne, Mahrez and Foden should do well.

I wonder how they are going to play this. Are they going to go for it totally from the Kick off or try and sneak a goal as they did at the Etihad? Either way we should win.
 
Marvin said:
I watched half of the 2nd half of Stuttgart v Dortmund. Cracking end to end match which Dortmund won 3-2. Haaland did very little. Bellingham and Hummels went off. Hummels went off at half time before I started watching so I don't know if he was injured or not. I noticed they have a lot of young players. Knaupf (sp?) scored a good goal. They play without fear.

They will probably score against us because they are a confident side who do create a lot of chances but I fancy City to score against them too. I think Jesus, De Bruyne, Mahrez and Foden should do well.

I wonder how they are going to play this. Are they going to go for it totally from the Kick off or try and sneak a goal as they did at the Etihad? Either way we should win.
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Good question, do they go out straight from the off for the first goal. Other option is they let City switch into our natural game of possession and then stealing a goal through transitions. Going to an interesting 90 minutes as the quality from both sides on Tuesday was very good, at the same time hearts in mouth stuff.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Good question, do they go out straight from the off for the first goal. Other option is they let City switch into our natural game of possession and then stealing a goal through transitions. Going to an interesting 90 minutes as the quality from both sides on Tuesday was very good, at the same time hearts in mouth stuff.
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Watchin from behind the Sofa on Wednesday for me a la Dr Who in the 60s!
 
Our biggest risk is a cagey slow pace game and losing 1:0 and going out on away goals.

Also brings greater risk of just x1 refereeing decision becoming deciding factor in game.

As soon as we score, we cannot be beaten on away goals, if we score x2 its in our favour

from then on, if a draw on aggregate. Hopefully, we can be clinical on any first half chance

to score, to remove mentally "1:0" option. If having started with his "best eleven" and we still

need a goal in last x20 mins, I would get torres on in the centre. Think he's more likely to get

a goal from a crowded penalty area than mahrez/sterling/jesus/bernardo. Hopefully, Kevin &

Phil start and provide the impetus and drive and quick incisive passing that was sorely missed

yesterday.
 
Marvin said:
I watched half of the 2nd half of Stuttgart v Dortmund. Cracking end to end match which Dortmund won 3-2. Haaland did very little. Bellingham and Hummels went off. Hummels went off at half time before I started watching so I don't know if he was injured or not. I noticed they have a lot of young players. Knaupf (sp?) scored a good goal. They play without fear.

They will probably score against us because they are a confident side who do create a lot of chances but I fancy City to score against them too. I think Jesus, De Bruyne, Mahrez and Foden should do well.

I wonder how they are going to play this. Are they going to go for it totally from the Kick off or try and sneak a goal as they did at the Etihad? Either way we should win.
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Yep, really lively, energetic, young side. That is something that usually causes us problems due to our lack of pace. Need to be right on it on wednesday
 
Paul1970 said:
Wouldn’t let sterling near this match after yesterday and he doesn’t deserve it either . I’m not that keen on Jesus playing either so I’d take a punt on kun if he is not injured again . Like to ferdy instead of Rodri for this one aswell .
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Aguero is injured and sadly his fitness levels are nowhere near for a game of this magnitude. Yep Sterling is way out of form but his pace is enough to frighten any defender , just think that the false / no number nine didn’t work in the first leg .
 
carlosthejackal said:
Aguero is injured and sadly his fitness levels are nowhere near for a game of this magnitude. Yep Sterling is way out of form but his pace is enough to frighten any defender , just think that the false / no number nine didn’t work in the first leg .
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his pace is frightening, but their defence can chill knowing his end product is fucking woeful
 
Just can't see any way that the UEFA Establishment would sit back and not interfere if there was a chance we could win their rancid and corrupt competition. Which makes yesterday's result even harder to swallow.
 
Indeed still in the balance this tie,but obviously you’d rather be in our situation,but I can’t shake that spectre hanging over us in quarter finals in the champions league,hopefully we go there and dismantle them ..
 
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