Proelia said:
Dortmund have lost their main man in gotze and have looked average without him, reus has been dragging them this season
Losing Gotze has been a big blow and Reus has definitely carried them in my opinion, but it's a lot more than that.
They have played virtually the entire season without Hummels and Gundogan. To put that in perspective where would City be if Kompany and Toure had played a handful of games? Then Bender has through numerous injuries has been out for the over half their games, so imagine Fernandinho missing over half your fixtures. Piszcek was out for the entire first half of the season and is only now finding form, so that is Zabaleta out for the first half of the season. Where would City be in the league?
If they had Hummels, Gundogan, Subotic and Bender, then I would be very confident they would thump United. Next season is the problem.