Arsenal Vs. Borussia Dortmund
Champions league
Tonight at 21:45
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Saturday afternoon even more regrettable for Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was injuries to midfielder Jack Wilshere and goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny that rule them out of the key clash with Dortmund. Danny Welbeck is also doubt to start, while Olivier Giroud, who returned ahead of schedule against United, cannot play against Dortmund having not been registered for the group phase. Those problems overshadow the return to the squad of Laurent Koscielny. Wenger has now revealed that he will be involved on Wednesday.
“He’s in the squad for tomorrow,” he said at his press conference on Tuesday. “It’s very good news because he was out for a while now and defensively we are short in numbers. It’s good to have his quality back.”
In the Premier League Arsenal did not cross a very good season, they are coming after a defeat with Manchester Untd.(1-2) and another one with Swansea (1-2) . Three weeks ago they lose the chance to the early qualification for the Champions League. Wenger says that solidarity is key of the victory.
Wenger said. “Everybody has the right to have an opinion. Having said that, we have values at this club. The first one is when we go through a difficult patch, we show solidarity. That is a very important one. The second one is that, when you have something to say to each other, we say it face to face. We don’t need to go to the newspapers.
“I don’t take [criticism] personally at all. It is an opinion that I respect. But when you’re from this club, you’re from this club. You’re in or out, you cannot be both.”
You cand find beow the last matches results of Arsenal:
22.11.14 | PRE | Arsenal | Manchester Utd | 1 : 2 | |
09.11.14 | PRE | Swansea | Arsenal | 2 : 1 | |
04.11.14 | LIG | Arsenal | Anderlecht | 3 : 3 | |
01.11.14 | PRE | Arsenal | Burnley | 3 : 0 | |
25.10.14 | PRE | Sunderland | Arsenal | 0 : 2 | |
22.10.14 | LIG | Anderlecht | Arsenal | 1 : 2 | |
18.10.14 | PRE | Arsenal | Hull | 2 : 2 |
Dortmund is coming after a 2-2 drew with Paderborn and a 1-0 victory with Moenchengladbach in Bundesliga. In Champions League they make a great match with Galatasaray and won 4-1.
The problem of the team is that their key attacking, the player Marco Reus have a serious injury and he will unable for tonights’s match. Also some importants players as Mats Hummels, Jakub Blaszczykowski and Sokratis Papastathopoulos are all set to miss out against Arsenal.
While Dortmund share many of Arsenal’s problems, their fine performances in the Champions League have set them apart. Jurgen Klopp’s men have won all four games in the competition by a combined scoreline of 13-1. Against Arsenal at the Westfalenstadion in September they produced a superb display that could well have seen them win by far more than the eventual 2-0 result.
You cand find beow the last matches results of Dortmund:
22.11.14 | BUN | Paderborn | Dortmund | 2 : 2 | |
09.11.14 | BUN | Dortmund | Moenchengladbach | 1 : 0 | |
04.11.14 | LIG | Dortmund | Galatasaray | 4 : 1 | |
01.11.14 | BUN | Bayern | Dortmund | 2 : 1 | |
28.10.14 | POK | St. Pauli | Dortmund | 0 : 3 | |
25.10.14 | BUN | Dortmund | Hannover | 0 : 1 | |
22.10.14 | LIG | Galatasaray | Dortmund | 0 : 4 |
Prediction:
Both sides have some problems, but we belive that Dortmund goes into the match with the first chance to the victory, they have struggled against strong teams and their results are important to be mentioned:2-1 Moenchengladbach,4-1 Galatasaray, 3-0 St. Pauli. Arsenal, in contrast, are a team whose natural style plays right into Dortmund’s hands. The defeat to Manchester United once again showed up how vulnerable Arsenal are on the counter-attack. Tonight Dormunt is the big favorite, althought at the bookmakers Arsanal has the first chance to victory. With the pace of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang it is hard not to see Dortmund scoring. Perhaps the fact that a draw will suit the visitors will allow Arsenal to claim the point they need.
If wee look back at the last direct meetings , last time when the two teams meet Dortmund won 2-0 at home, so if they will keep the tradition, tonight they have big chanches to be glorious again.
Here you have some of the last head-to-head matches results:
16.09.14 | LIG | Dortmund | Arsenal | 2 : 0 |
06.11.13 | LIG | Dortmund | Arsenal | 0 : 1 |
22.10.13 | LIG | Arsenal | Dortmund | 1 : 2 |
23.11.11 | LIG | Arsenal | Dortmund | 2 : 1 |
13.09.11 | LIG | Dortmund | Arsenal | 1 : 1 |
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