Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund with a broad chest to the Champions League game against FC Bruges. FC Schalke 04 can solve for FC Porto in advance the Ticket for the first knockout round.
But now! Borussia Dortmund want to use the second match ball and in advance to the first knockout round of the Champions League to move in. Prerequisite for this is a point on Wednesday in a home game against the Belgian Champions, club Brugge (kick-off 21 PM CET, starting at 20.45 at the DW live Ticker for this) at least. The first match ball was awarded the Dortmund three weeks ago, when they had conceded lost at Atletico Madrid 0:2, and thus the first competitive defeat of the season.
Favre and Götze warn of Bruges
“We have to approach this match like there’s no Tomorrow,” said BVB managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke before the game against Bruges. “We need to get a very, very good performance. We all remember the game there, it was very, very difficult,” warns coach Lucien Favre with a view to the laborious 1:0 in Bruges for the start of the Champions League season.
Pulisic (l.) redeemed the BVB in mid-September in Bruges with his goal in the closing stages
At the time Christian Pulisic had the victory with his goal in the 85. Minute ensure. Also Mario Gotze is expected at the reunion on Wednesday of a “difficult game”.
Advantage of BVB in the remote duel against Atletico
In long-distance duel for the group victory against Atletico Madrid, BVB can afford to have a slip-up. The Dortmund win, however, against Bruges and also the last preliminary round game on 11. December in the crisis-ridden AS Monaco, they would have the victory in the group A and thus the prospect of an easier opponent in the second round. Self-confidence there seems to be no lack of the BVB as a League-table leader, and FC-Bayern-Besieger. “It would be important that we close on Wednesday the thing,” says captain Marco Reus.
Tedesco: “Much in the Champions League investing”
Five of Schalke goals in a game
Under slightly different sign of the FC Schalke 04 will take on Wednesday is also the Chance to qualify early for the first knockout round of Europe’s elite class. After a botched start to the season, the king’s hope blue, that with the 5:2 victory on Saturday against the 1. FC Nürnberg, and finally the node is off and that the team to carry the momentum into game of group D FC Porto (21).
“We want to move into the knockout round, because we have invested a lot in the Champions League,” says coach Domenico Tedesco. Help protect could make some Ex-Schalke. Ex world Champions should not Benedikt Höwedes, Jefferson Farfan and sporting Director Erik Stoffel house with the conclusion of the light Lokomotiv Moscow in the game against the third-Galatasaray Istanbul (18.55 PM) to lose, would be appearing before the kick-off in Porto in the knockout round.