On Tuesday, starting at 20:00 pm, the match Dortmund – Paris Saint-Germain will be played, within the Champions League optima, tour leg, 2019/2020 season. The two teams only dueled in the Europa League group stage, the 2010/2011 season. Then there were two draws, 1-1 at Dortmund and 0-0 at Paris. Everything inclines towards goals a lot this time, but the importance of double-handedness can diminish the spectacle in the field.
Dortmund managed a great day before doubles with Paris Saint-Germain, beating Frankfurt by 4-0 at home. Lucien Favre’s students have quickly overcome the failure of Leverkusen and start with confidence in the best of the Champions League. In fact, Dortmund have won 7 of the 10 points of the group stage at Signal Iduna Park and is the only Bundesliga team that has not lost on its own ground this season in any of the competitions. Norwegian striker Erling Braut Haaland scores one goal every 38 minutes at Dortmund and has scored 8 goals in 6 matches for Salzburg in the Champions League group stage.
Paris Saint-Germain comes to Dortmund after an amazing draw in Ligue 1, 4-4 at Amiens, after the break was led by 3-0, and at one point was 4-3. Thomas Tuchel returns as an opponent at Signal Iduna Park, where he successfully trained between 2015 and 2017, winning a German Cup. The Parisians are not “strangers” to the Bundesliga, having in their lot 3 footballers who have evolved in Germany: Julian Draxler (Schalke, Wolfsburg), Juan Bernat (Bayern) and Thilo Kehrer (Schalke). With Ligue 1 at “discretion”, Paris Saint-Germain allowed at the weekend to house Mbappe and Neymar, becoming at this time one of the Champions League favorites.
Lucien Favre must evolve cautiously in front of the French group, which is able to easily score on the counterattack. It will be a very interesting duel, in which Dortmund could get a valuable draw, in the style of the success with Barcelona in the group stage, score 0-0. In any case, Signal Iduna Park is a very difficult place to win.
Dortmund: Bürki – Akanji, Hummels (c), Zagadou – Hakimi, Can, Witsel, Guerrero – Hazard, Haaland, Sancho
Absent: Delaney, Reus
Uncertain: Brandt
Coach: Lucien Favre
PSG: Navas – Meunier, Marquinhos, Silva (c), Bernat – Di Maria, Gueye, Verratti, Neymar – Mbappe, Icardi
Absent: Dagba, Diallo
Uncertain: Bernat
Coach: Thomas Tuchel
PREDICTION: Both teams to score / YES @ 1,34
