PSV Eindhoven’s first UEFA Champions League knockout match in 8 seasons will see them face Borussia Dortmund, who have performed normally in the knockout stages in recent years. Watch the action live on SuperSport at 22:00 CAT.
The Dutch club will be making their fifth appearance at the stadium (and their moment in 17 seasons) and are aiming for the quarter-finals for the first time since the 2006/07 season.
Dortmund are in the round of 16 for the ninth time overall and fifth in six seasons: 3 of their last 4 knockout rounds ended in elimination.
While PSV finished second behind Arsenal in Group B in this season’s organising phase, Dortmund crowned a competitive Group F ahead of Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Newcastle United.
MATCH FACTS
PSV and Borussia Dortmund have met in Europe since the organisation of the 2002-03 UEFA Champions League, with Dortmund winning 3-1 at the Philips Stadion before drawing 1-1 at Signal Iduna Park.
This is PSV’s first UEFA Champions League knockout match against a German team, losing 8 of 12 matches against German teams at organisational level (W3 D1). Borussia Dortmund’s knockout match against a Dutch team came in the fourth of 1995-96. -final, losing 3-0 on aggregate to runners-up Ajax.
Borussia Dortmund have lost just one of their last four away games against a Dutch club in the UEFA Champions League (W2 D1), that defeat coming in their last away game – 0-4 to Ajax in an organisational match in October. 2021.
It will be PSV’s first appearance in the UEFA Champions League of 16 since the 2015-16 campaign, when they were eliminated in the round of 16 by Atletico Madrid. The Netherlands’ last victory in the last 16 of the festival came in February 2007, when they beat Arsenal 1-0 at home (also in the round of 16).
Borussia Dortmund have lost 8 of their last nine away games in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 (1 win), their only victory in that streak coming at the hands of current coach Edin Terzic: 3-2 in Seville in the round of 16. 2020-21.
PSV are unbeaten in their last five UEFA Champions League games (W2 D3) and may equate to their longest unbeaten run at the festival – the last six games unbeaten between October 1997 and September 1998.
Borussia Dortmund have won their last two away games in the UEFA Champions League, beating Newcastle 1-0 and AC Milan 3-1 in the qualifying round. The last 3 consecutive away games at the festival were won by the same coach in the 2013–14 season. , from a run of 3 Jürgen Klopp.
Karim Adeyemi has scored in his last two UEFA Champions League games for Borussia Dortmund (two goals), with Jude Bellingham in October 2022 being the last player to score in 3 consecutive matches for the club at the festival (a run of four).
Johan Bakayoko has created as many chances and dribbled as many dribbles as any PSV player in the UEFA Champions League this season (15 each). In fact, he’s the only player at the organizational level this year to have created more than 15 open opportunities and more. of 15 dribbles.
Borussia Dortmund defender Mats Hummels has provided 62 assists in the UEFA Champions League this season, the second-most among any centre-back at organisational level (after 64-year-old Josko Gvardiol).
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