Key occasions
Half-time leisure.
HALF TIME: Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Newcastle United
One minute of added time. One final likelihood for Newcastle as Trippier sends a free kick lengthy and into the Dortmund field. The hosts clear and counter, however Sabitzer can solely ship a weak cross into the Newcastle space and that’s that. Dortmund lead, however Newcastle have come again at them impressively, even when Kobel hasn’t had any severe work to do.
45 min: Trippier sends the nook lengthy. Lascelles is free on the left-hand fringe of the six-yard field and heads throughout for Joelinton, who heads in direction of the highest left however can’t get sufficient energy on the hassle to beat Kobel. Simple for the keeper.
44 min: Longstaff and Livramento mix briskly down the proper and win one other nook. Trippier wanders throughout to take.
43 min: Lascelles tries a protracted cross down the center, in search of Longstaff, however there’s an excessive amount of juice on the ball. Kobel comes out to assert.
41 min: Nmecha clatters into Guimaraes down the Newcastle proper. An opportunity for Trippier to swing a free kick into the mixer … however as a substitute he unveils one other training-ground effort, and a long-range one-two with Willock doesn’t come off as deliberate. Objective kick.
39 min: A brief sequence of garden-variety free kicks go Newcastle’s means in the midst of the park. Extra irritated whistles. Dortmund are main, however the dwelling followers know their workforce at the moment are in a recreation.
37 min: Joelinton very almost brings down a easy lengthy cross down the center. An inch away from the ball sticking to his boot. He’d have been by means of on purpose. Probably offside … however presumably not. Extra promise for Newcastle.
36 min: … however a second purpose would actually put Newcastle in hassle. Adeyemi finds Sule on the proper. Sule rolls throughout the face of purpose for Sabitzer, who leans again and sidefoots over from the sting of the D.
34 min: Just a few annoyed whistles as Brandt runs down a cul-de-sac when a promising counter fails to develop. Guimaraes breaks it up with authority; Newcastle look a lot improved since going behind, as if there’s nothing to lose now. A lot simpler to go for it than sitting again.
32 min: Guimaraes shovels a cross down the proper for Livramento, who wins a nook. Trippier swings it in. Schar wins a header ten yards out, however there’s no energy in his goalward effort and that’s a simple snaffle for Kobel.
30 min: … however Newcastle have responded pretty properly to conceding. They play some nerve-settling possession stuff within the midfield, gathering themselves after that blow.
28 min: Schlotterbeck goals lengthy in an try to launch Adeyemi down the proper touchline. Too lengthy. Adeyemi can’t management and the referee blows for a hand ball. Dortmund are clearly focusing on Corridor down this proper flank.
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Newcastle United (Füllkrug 26)
A wierd purpose, this. Dortmund barrel down the center of the park, en masse. Adeyemi, Fullkrug and Sabitzer juggle the ball whereas by no means fairly being in management. However Newcastle are everywhere in the store and fail to clear when offered with a few possibilities. Lastly the ball’s slipped to Sabitzer on the proper. Sabitzer enters the field and fires a low cross in direction of Füllkrug, who slams dwelling from six yards.
24 min: Ryerson and Adeyemi mix down the left, the latter pulling again within the hope of discovering Brandt on the sting of the D. Wilson is on level to intercept and clear. Newcastle have performed properly to quieten Dortmund down a bit.
22 min: A uncommon assault for Newcastle, as Willock seems lengthy for Wilson with a cross from the left. An excessive amount of on the ball. Objective kick. However the transfer offers Newcastle succour, and Wilson is quickly coming once more down the proper. His run wins a nook off Schlotterbeck. Trippier and Corridor trade cleverly from shut vary, however when the previous’s despatched into area lengthy the byline, he fails to seek out anybody in inexperienced within the center together with his low cross. Properly labored routine, although.
20 min: Brandt has the chance to ship Sabitzer into acres of area down the proper, however his cross is uncharacteristically careless, clanking straight at Lascelles. Newcastle lucky that one didn’t come off; Sabitzer would have been despatched clear.
18 min: Guimaraes seems for Trippier out on the proper with a diagonal spray, however the ball flies straight into the stand. Trippier acknowledges the cross anyway, albeit with a frown. Newcastle are struggling to get out of their very own half proper now.
16 min: Sule and Sabitzer mix cutely down the inside-right channel. They reduce for Adeyemi, who sends a low diagonal screamer in direction of the underside left. Pope parries properly once more; his defenders cope with the rebound once more. Newcastle are all of the sudden hanging on a bit right here.
15 min: Brandt is in all places. Now he units Adeyemi on the run down the proper. Corridor comes throughout and really rigorously blocks his means. That’s first rate defending, particularly as he’s now tottering alongside the previous disciplinary tightrope after that early yellow.
13 min: Dortmund stream down the center of the park, some good one-touch stuff. Lastly Brandt cushions a cross into the street of Füllkrug, who pearls a shot in direction of the underside left. Pope parries confidently and Newcastle clear the rebound.
11 min: Brandt takes the ensuing free kick, swinging it in from the proper. Corridor compounds his error by slicing a clearance backwards and over the bar. Nook. Brandt to take this set piece as properly. Joelinton clears, simply after the ball brushes Longstaff’s arm. Dortmund claims however come off it. Neither referee nor VAR reveals any curiosity, fairly rightly so. Longstaff’s arm was proper by his aspect.
9 min: Füllkrug barges his means down the proper, chasing Brandt’s cross, and appears to have the beating of Corridor. The younger full-back panics, tugs the striker again, and that’s a reserving that’ll make his night’s work even more durable.
8 min: Schlotterbeck performs a cute cross throughout the face of his personal field. Too cute, actually, and it almost permits the hard-pressing Livramento to steal the ball. Not fairly, however that was an pointless likelihood taken by Schlotterbeck and so almost a present for the Newcastle teenager.
7 min: Füllkrug spins Lascelles with ease below a excessive ball within the centre circle, and feeds Adeyemi, who in flip finds Brandt on the overlap down the inside-right channel. Brandt blasts wildly over the bar from the sting of the field. Newcastle had been too simply rotated there.
6 min: Some head tennis within the Newcastle field, after which Trippier clears. Newcastle will likely be comfortable sufficient with this begin.
5 min: Nmecha slips Adeyemi into area down the proper, the latter successful a nook off Corridor. Brandt to take.
4 min: Livramento backs himself in a foot race with Ryerson down the proper and almost wins it. The Dortmund full again will get to the ball simply in time to clear. One Newcastle throw results in one other, then Livramento and Trippier confuse one another and the prospect to maintain Dortmund pinned again within the ultimate third is gone.
2 min: Willock stays down for a worrying few seconds, Hummels having caught him on the ankle. Oh no, not yet one more damage? However after a tense beat, he springs again up and is sweet to go. Eddie Howe breathes once more.
1 min: The hosts are instantly on the entrance foot, Sabitzer failing to regulate on the sting of the Newcastle field. The guests then counter, Willock blazing up the left wing solely to be stopped unceremoniously by Hummels. A vibrant begin.
Information at 545. Dortmund get the ball rolling.
The groups are out! Borussia Dortmund of their well-known yellow and black; Newcastle in cheeky second-choice inexperienced. A uncommon previous environment on the Westfalenstadion, the denizens of the Yellow Wall doing their factor; the three,800 Toon followers misplaced amid an 80,000-strong attendance doing their finest. We’ll be off as soon as Uefa have trampled over George Frideric Handel’s grave.
Pre-match postbag. “Eddie Howe has dusted off a tribute the previous WM formation together with his use of 15 inverted full-backs within the beginning XI. Anyway, all of those accidents have merely accelerated the inevitable technique of Eddie going ‘full Pep’ and enjoying an unnecessarily advanced system in a essential European fixture” – Chris Paraskevas
“James Corden will get in all places, doesn’t he” – Shaun Tooze
Newcastle can’t actually afford a defeat tonight. Ought to they lose this night, they’d be correctly up towards it, three factors behind Dortmund, who would have the head-to-head decider of their again pocket, and with a visit to PSG to barter subsequent. Dortmund in the meantime are coming off the again of a Harry Kane-inspired shellacking in Der Klassiker and will likely be determined for a confidence-restoring bounce-back victory. So it received’t be straightforward … however then nothing is within the Champions League.
Eddie Howe speaks to TNT Sports activities. “We hope the workforce performs very well … it’s bought a very good mixture of expertise, youth and the athleticism we have to do properly on this recreation … we consider within the workforce, now we have some superb gamers on the pitch … we’re in good type, confidence ought to be excessive … you may see already what this recreation will likely be like when it comes to environment and coping with that’s going to be a giant factor for us … a few the alternatives they’ve made have stunned us, presumably we’ve performed the identical to them.”
Matt Smith does his finest to get some concept of how the Toon boss will arrange his youthful and cobbled-together XI, asking twice, however Howe’s not budging. “I don’t wish to inform you,” he smiles, albeit with a slight just-try-asking-me-a-third-time frost across the enamel.
Loads of modifications to each beginning XIs from the reverse fixture at St James’ Park a fortnight in the past. Borussia Dortmund make 5 modifications: Julian Brandt, Niklas Süle, Julian Ryerson, Salih Özcan and Karim Adeyemi change Marco Reus, Donyell Malen, Marius Wolf and Ramy Bensebaini, all of whom drop to the bench, and the injured Emre Can.
Newcastle make 4 modifications to the workforce they despatched out for that 1-0 defeat. Alexander Isak and Dan Burn are each injured, whereas Antony Gordon and Miguel Almirón drop to the bench. Stepping up: Callum Wilson, Joe Willock, Tino Livramento and Lewis Corridor. Newcastle’s damage disaster is such that they’ve solely named eight subs, together with 21-year-old midfielder Lucas de Bolle and 18-year-old striker Ben Parkinson, plus two goalies in Martin Dubravka and Loris Karius.
The groups
Borussia Dortmund: Kobel, Sule, Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Ryerson, Sabitzer, Ozcan, Brandt, Nmecha, Adeyemi, Fullkrug.
Subs: Bensebaini, Reyna, Haller, Reus, Wolf, Moukoko, Malen, Meyer, Laurenz Lotka, Clean, Bynoe-Gittens.
Newcastle United: Pope, Trippier, Lascelles, Schar, Corridor, Longstaff, Bruno Guimaraes, Willock, Livramento, Wilson, Joelinton.
Subs: Dubravka, Dummett, Gordon, Karius, Almiron, Parkinson, Miley, De Bolle.
Referee: Alejandro Hernandez (Spain).
Preamble
When these groups met at St James’ Park a fortnight in the past, this occurred …
… which meant the Group F desk all of the sudden appeared very tight …
… and so Newcastle might actually do with some kind of consequence on the Westfalenstadion this night, to be able to keep in contact with the highest two. Kick off is at 5.45pm GMT. It’s on!
