A mouthwatering fixture is upon us as Borussia Dortmund host RB Leipzig at Sign Iduna Park on Saturday night as Nuri Sahin’s aspect look to rediscover some constructive type and finish Leipzig’s unbeaten begin to the season.
Sahin’s place as supervisor is at the moment underneath stress as Dortmund sit in seventh place within the league desk and have misplaced their final three video games in a row in all competitions.
A disappointing 1-0 loss within the DFB-Pokal towards Wolfsburg on Tuesday added additional stress after dropping their most up-to-date league fixture 2-1 towards Augsburg, leaving them already seven factors behind prime spot.
“It’s not about my private state of affairs. It’s about transferring the membership ahead, getting again heading in the right direction as shortly as attainable and profitable our video games,” stated Sahin.
Their opponents nonetheless, have had a really constructive begin to the season as they at the moment sit in second place with the identical factors because the league leaders, Bayern Munich. Solely these two sides are but to lose a sport this season.
Marco Rose’s aspect additionally lately progressed to the third spherical of the DFB-Pokal after beating St Pauli 4-2, in addition to profitable their final Bundesliga fixture 3-1 towards Freiburg.
Rose nonetheless has reward for Dortmund throughout their troublesome spell this season.
“Regardless of the shortage of outcomes final week, Dortmund have a excessive stage of particular person high quality with and towards the ball. They’ve a transparent concept and numerous velocity on each wings. As well as, Serhou Guirassy is an absolute prime striker.”
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Dortmund are at the moment battling a protracted listing of absentees, together with two suspensions which Almugera Kabar and Niklas Sule are at the moment serving.
Jan Couto, Giovanni Reyna and Julian Ryerson are prone to miss out via damage.
Felix Nmecha and Gregor Kobel each picked up knocks in the course of the match towards Wolfsburg and should miss out.
Julien Duranville and Karim Adeyemi may even be lacking out.
Leipzig might be with out Xaver Schlager who seems to be out till January 2025, in addition to David Raum till the center of December 2024.
Xavi Simons can also be lacking and underwent a minor operation in Munich lately because of a ligament damage in his ankle.
Nicolas Seiwald can also be dominated out, whereas Forzan Assan Ouedraogo is prone to be out of motion for the following few days.
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