Dortmund have secured their position in the round of 16 with a game to lose thanks to last week’s 1-1 draw with Lazio. As long as they improve the result of Lazio, which occupies the moment, against Club Brugge, BVB, lately with 10 problems, will become the winner of Group F, in theory building a more favorable tie in the circular of 16. Haaland was the player Dortmund standout in the organization. level with six goals in 4 appearances but missed the Lazio impasse with a hamstring strain that deserves to keep him on the sidelines until the new year. Captain Marco Reus led the line at his position against the Italians, while Julian Brandt took nine false assignments in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt. Another option for head coach Lucien Favre is 16-year-old Youssoufa Moukoko, who played the entire time in Frankfurt. If he appeared, he would become the youngest deyetante in the Champions League. Raphael Guerreiro may also have a role to play after shaking off a punch, Favre would possibly decide to give Felix Passlack a left-back outing. Mateu Morey would deserve to continue on the opposite flank in the absence of Thomas Meunier.
Zenit succumbed to goals from Jadon Sancho and Haaland in Dortmund earlier in the campaign. Group F has been type for the protective champions of the Russian Premier League, who only have one point to show for their efforts and are guaranteed to finish at the rear of the segment for the moment in a row. Sergei Semak’s continental fighters ended a 4-game winless streak in all competitions by beating Ural 5-1 on Saturday, but lost six of their seven games to German clubs, adding losses at home and away to RB. Leipzig in 2019/20. Furthermore, they have not won in their last 4 home matches against Bundesliga opposition (D1, L3), and have only won two of the ten matches against German clubs in St. Petersburg (D2 L6). Defender Dejan Lovren, winner of the 2018/19 Champions League with former club Liverpool, is a main doubt, but left-back Douglas Santos, who spent 3 years in Germany with Hamburg, is expected to start at the rear. left. Sardar Azmoun is the club’s most level-headed scorer with nine goals, followed largely by Russia’s captain Artem Dzyuba, who suffers from a groin problem.
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Haaland has scored six goals in four UEFA Champions League matches this season at a pace of one each and every 58 minutes. Sancho has the highest number of players with two. Moukoko is the youngest player in Bundesliga. Si history playing on Tuesday – 16-year-old and 19 days old: he will surpass Celestine Babayaro as the Champions League’s greenest debutant. Dortmund won the festival in 1997 and was runner-up at Bayern Munich in 2013, which he did three times. Currently with 10 points, Dortmund will win Group F with a victory in Russia. If Lazio fails to beat Club Brugge, BVB midfielder Axel Witsel scored 22 goals in 180 games as a Zenit player between 2012 and 2017, winning the Russian Premier League in 2015. Games for Hamburg. Defender Lovren, who speaks fluent German, has never played in Germany.
Zenit: Kerzhakov – Sutormin, Prokhin, Rakitskiy, Santos – Ozdoyev (c), Neighborhoods, Yerokhin – Malcom, Azmoun, Driussi Departure: Chistyakov (ineligible) Doubtful: Dzyuba (aine), Lovren (sick), Karavayendel (muscular) Muscular : Sergei Semak
Dortmund: Boerki – Akanji, Can, Zagadou – Morey, Dahoud, Witsel (c), Passlack – Reyna, Brandt, HazardOut: Delaney (back), Haaland (muscular), Meunier (calf), Schmelzer (knee) Doubtful: Reinier (not included), Schulz (hit) Coach: Lucien Favre
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