VfB Stuttgart vs Borussia Dortmund
Competition: German Bundesliga
Date: 17 November 2017
Competition: German Bundesliga
Date: 17 November 2017
In the first-third of the Bundesliga championship, VfBStuttgart has played almost with the same rhythm and with only one draw at home. In the remaining four games in front of their supporters, Stuttgart celebrated victories, but
they lost all six games and only scored three goals. Before the break
the team played against HSV away and that was the sixth defeat, where they
managed to score one goal in moments, when they were lesser players on
the field.
Player, Burnic, was excluded at the
very beginning of the match and it was clear then that it would be hard
to do something. This feeling was particularly intensified when Stuttgart
received the first goal, and then they equalized at the beginning of the
second half and it woke up the hope that lasted only ten minutes. The
good news of the team was that center-back, Badstuber, recovered and that midfielder
Ascacibar completed his suspension, while Burnic will not certainly be
in the team from the previously injured players.
Borussia Dortmund, on the other hand, is surely one of the teams, which benefited from this short
break, because they were in the big crisis before. They made two draws with Nicosia APOEL
practically excluded them from the fight for the round of sixteen of the UEFA
Champions League, in which they certainly had great ambitions and will
now have to contend with UEFA Europa League. Dortmund started well in the
championship and then fell incomprehensibly, so they are without a win
in the previous four games. From this, the team only played one draw and
that was away with Eintracht, where they dropped two goals advantage.
They
were defeated at home in two big derbies from Leipzig and Bayern Munich, and
completely unexpected by Hannover as guests. Borussia Dortmund have received 12 goals
in these four matches and it is clear that they have a problem, so now Bartra and Sokratis are expected, in formation with four in the last
line, where Piszczek is missing. Toljan could be in that position, and
perhaps Guerreiro plays on the left back.
Probable Lineups For Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund:
VfB Stuttgart: Zieler – Beck, Baumgartl, Badstuber, Insua – Ascacibar, Aogo – Asano, Akolo, Ozcan – Ginczek
Borussia Dortmund: Burki – Toljan, Bartra, Sokratis, Guerreiro – Sahin, Castro, M.Gotze – Yarmolenko, Pulisic, Aubameyang
