Can Erling Haaland discover the community in order that Borussia Dortmund can maintain the strain on Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich on Saturday (kick-off: 3:30 p.m. CEST) on the journey to Arminia Bielefeld?
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BVB coach Marco Rose has to do with out Raphael Guerreiro, Gio Reyna, Youssoufa Moukoko and Mateu Morey within the recreation towards Bielefeld on the weekend. Jacob Laursen’s breathtaking aim. Bielefeld has not received any of the final 4 first division duels with Dortmund and has not even scored the aim on this collection – most lately towards Die Schwarzgelben in Could 2008. Coach Frank Kramer has a full-strong squad to select from and has to determine whether or not Janni Serra will stay within the beginning line-up or get replaced by Fabian Klos, who will likely be on 8.
Haaland was in a position to expertise a milestone for Dortmund in Bielefeld; If he scores, the Norwegian sensation will rating his fiftieth Bundesliga aim in his fiftieth Bundesliga recreation. Rose’s males will look to clear Tuesday’s 4-0 defeat by Ajax within the UEFA Champions League as they attempt to bridge the one-point hole with leaders Bayern. Haaland has solely missed the aim in three of his ten aggressive video games this season and is on the prime of the Bundesliga scorers checklist along with Robert Lewandowski after his brace within the 3-1 win towards Mainz final weekend. Rose should not make too many modifications to the Ajax recreation regardless of a disappointing outcome, though Emre Can will seemingly return to midfield rather than Axel Witsel if BVB are searching for their third straight league win.
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- Dortmund has received all 5 dwelling video games within the Bundesliga this season, however has solely scored three factors away from dwelling (S1, L2).
- Haaland may rejoice his fiftieth Bundesliga recreation along with his fiftieth Bundesliga aim this weekend – he’s at the moment 49 to 49.
- With 9 targets to this point, Haaland has greater than doubled the entire variety of 4 Bielefelds – the bottom of all groups this season.
- Bielefeld defender Amos Pieper got here to the membership from Dortmund in January 2019 and has been an vital member of the protection ever since.
- Frank Kramer’s protégés nonetheless need to win at dwelling this season (U3, 1).
- Bielefeld has overwhelmed Dortmund extra (12) than some other Bundesliga membership, 10 of them at dwelling, however they haven’t received any of their final six matches with BVB.
Possible lineups
Bielefeld: Ortega – Brunner, Pieper, Nilsson, Laursen – Wimmer, Prietl (c), Schöpf – Okugawa – Klos, Hack
The tip: –
Uncertain: –
Coach: Frank Kramer
Dortmund: Kobel – Meunier, Akanji, Hummels, Schulz – Bellingham, Can, Brandt – Reus (c) – Haaland, Malen
The tip: Guerreiro (muscular), Morey (knee), Moukoko (muscular), Reyna (thigh), Schmelzer (knee)
Uncertain: Dahoud (knee)
Coach: Marco Rose
