Starting XI: Ederson, Stones, Akanji, Ake, Cancelo, Rodri, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Mahrez, Haaland, Grealish. 6:30PM. Dortmund looking to hurt City on the ...
We have to try to reach the maximum and see what's going to happen." "I'm very happy, I was throughout all my time at the club but obviously it's football and in some ways it's also a business," he said. "That's not always the case here and each team is defensively strong. In the last few years, the way we got knocked out was maybe a little bit tragic but I don't think we should regret anything. "The margins are so tight that no mistakes are really allowed. "[They are] among the top favourites in the Champions League. "He can be better, that's for sure. "And we're hoping he doesn't score. "He's young and hungry, individually he can improve," he said. Dortmund will be without Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, Mahmoud Dahoud, Gregor Kobel, Mateu Morey and Sebastien Haller, however, with the latter still receiving treatment for testicular cancer. "Speed is always important in modern football," he said, when asked about his side's threat out wide. Wingers Julian Brandt and Marius Wolf have been replaced by Gio Reyna and Emre Can, the latter allowing Dortmund to adopt a more defensive stance (with Marco Reus moving out wide).
Join us for all the minute-by-minute action as goal machine Erling Haaland faces his former club at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester.
Dortmund will look to push on from their comfortable 3-0 win over Copenhagen in their first Champions League game of the season. If Man City win today then qualification for the next round of the Champions League will be all but assured. Here at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester we see Pep Guardiola's Premier League reigning champions, Man City, entertain the German Bundesliga's second best team of last season. Since joining from Borussia Dortmund at the start of the summer he has scored 12 goals in eight games. In the Bundesliga Dortmund sit fifth out of 18 teams, winning four games and losing two, including a defeat against rivals RB Leipzig 3-0 last weekend. Their last meeting was in the quarter-finals of the 2020/21 season. It is well known that Manchester City's owners covet the Champions League as the ultimate prize, so far alluding them. Both sides faced off in the group stage of the 2012/13 season. Biggest chance of the game as Dortmund break down the City left. Were he to score tonight he would join Ciro Immobile as a player to have scored for and against Dortmund. Jude Bellingham cost Dortmund a lot of money for a youngster, around ยฃ25 millon from birmingham in 2020. Since then he has proved his worth, playing 46 and 44 times each of his first two seasons.
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He has three this term, but the whole team has contributed too - Dortmund have had 10 different scorers in all competitions so far this season. However, they will be looking for a response after a humbling 3-0 defeat to RB Leipzig at the weekend. Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 20 UEFA Champions League home games, winning 18 and drawing two. There has been a goal in Israel but not the way you would think. A shock on the cards in Group H. The youngster oozes class, intelligent beyond his years and again a shining light - as he was when Dortmund went out at the quarter-final stage against City in 2021. Joao Cancelo menaced from the left and his tricky cross hit an area for Haaland to attack. You know the rest. There with other instances where, when Dortmund came under fair pressure, that he expertly intercepted and got them moving in the opposite direction. But then the tide turned. City felt like that for much of the night. It is not often that the striker is left looking back and wondering what just happened.
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โ Man City 2-1 Borussia Dortmund. โ Man City 1-1 Borussia Dortmund. Bellingham scored his fourth UEFA Champions League goal, the most ever by an English teenager in the competition. โ Man City 0-1 Borussia Dortmund. It's then fed to Reus, who turns his marker in the box but flashes a shot on the stretch just wide of the far post. Indeed, once the hosts had levelled it was almost written in the stars that he would get the winner.