Europa League

Hungry for the Sensation

Four German clubs have chances for the knockout stages of the Europa League. Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen have the best starting position. The FC Augsburg has historically been impossible to create.

Augsburg is happy at Liverpool: there will also be at the Anfield Road a reason to Cheer?

A look into the football history books might be the correct incentive for Augsburg Coach Markus Weinzierl and his team. As the underdogs in the great Liverpool FC under coach Jürgen Klopp could succeed in what the FC Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund or even the legendary Fohlenelf of the 1970s, from Mönchengladbach was denied: a victory at the Anfield Road. Liverpool FC has never been to a home game against a German team lost. In 14 Games, there were eleven victories and three draws for the “Reds”.

Weinzierl: “0:0 for Liverpool dangerous”

“So a stadium is dreaming of his whole life: Camp Nou, Bernabeu and San Siro are perhaps still some stadiums that are just as great Prestige,” said Tobias Werner. All the anticipation, for in Spite of needs of the FCA, at least a gate for direct Advance. “It is important that we not hide, and well keep it,” stressed captain Paul Verhaegh. “If we get it we need to use it.”

Dortmund dreaming of the final in Basel

With a broad chest leaves Borussia Dortmund for the return to Porto. “That must be our day! This is our claim,” said the BVB coach Thomas Tuchel. After
the 2:0 in the first leg, the chances for the winners well, even if all of your duty to warn descendants. “We are not yet through”, emphasized Mats Hummels with a view of the game. However, it seems that one in Dortmund, but also the other goal is already in sight: “We can go a long way,” said Tuchel. And Lukasz Piszczek dream of it even, “at the end of a trophy in your hands”.

For the duel with FC Porto must Tuchel his interior defense to switch. Sokratis falls for three weeks with a hamstring. For him will probably Neven Subotic come to use. Tuchel is expected at the Estadio Dragao significantly more opposition than in the first leg. “We need a top performance to get ahead. Porto gets quality back,” he said. Porto’s right-back Maxi Pereira and midfielder Danilo Pereira to have their Gelbsperre served.

Interference in Leverkusen

After all anxiety is due to
the lock for coach Roger Schmidt’s Bayer Leverkusen sought to the Europa League to focus on. The discussions should not lead to the Werkself their good position in the home game against Sporting Lisbon, but still playful. “We have in the first leg a good result but the second leg can still be very dangerous,” said Bayer veteran Stefan Kießling. Also Karim Bellarabi, in the past week, the 1-0 winning goal in the Portuguese capital had achieved, despite the good starting position on the paper is still a bit queasy: “We must the victory in the first leg, not be blinded and need to be just as concentrated as in Lisbon, where we are not allowed to have.”

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Responsible was Abwehrchef Ömer Toprak because of an injury absence, as well as Spielgestalter Kevin Kampl. “This is bitter, Ömer was in an impressive Form,” lamented Schmidt, for the Turks are probably the Greeks Kyriakos Papadopoulos on the page by Jonathan Tah in the centre to go. This can Schmidt, in contrast to the first leg back on striker Javier Chicharito Hernandez to fall back on.

Schalke needs a strong performance

Schalke Coach Breitenreiter: “No goal allow.”

The FC Schalke 04 is at home against Schachtjor Donetsk being under pressure. The 0:0 from the first leg leaves everything open. However, the last success in a K. o. game in their own Arena four years back: In the second round of the Europa League against Twente Enschede, managed a 4:1, then there were four Heimpleiten with 15 goals conceded, and the Off against Athletic Bilbao (2:4), Galatasaray Istanbul (2:3) and Real Madrid (1:6 and 0:2). “The Zero must stand”, therefore called midfielder Johannes Geis, “the is the A and O.” In the Bundesliga, managed to do this last not in 1:2 when FSV Mainz 05 is still on the last Sunday at the 1:1 against VfB Stuttgart. “Donetsk is similar to Stuttgart, a team with good saving your single-player up front,” warned of the Geis, “this will be extremely difficult.”