Borussia Dortmund travels to Lisbon to get the first leg of her champion League play-off against Sporting CP.
It was a hurricane 2024/25 for both teams, with the sporty CP fading after the departure of Ruben Amorim to Manchester United. The Portuguese champions were prepared in the league phase table after a top-eight finish after being hit Manchester City with 4: 1, but they couldn’t win any of their last four games and hardly scrape off the play-offs.
The successor to Amorim, Joao Pereira, only lasted six weeks and sport has been run by Rui Borges since Boxing Day. They are four points at the top of the Primeira league.
Niko Kovac supervised the defeat of his management on Saturday in Dortmund after replacing Nuri Sahin in the shelter. The finalists of last season had an up-and-down League phase, but the victory over Shakhtar Donetk on 8th day 8 had the tenth and just before the automatic qualification points for the 16th round.
You will now fight two legs with sports to continue your continental journey.
Here is everything you need to know about the play-off on Tuesday Champions League.
Sporting CP against Borussia Dortmund H2H Record (all games)
Current form (all competitions)
Sporting CP | Borussia Dortmund |
|---|---|
Porto 1-1 Sporting CP – 07/02/25 | Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Stuttgart – 08/02/25 |
Sporting CP 3-1 Farle – 02/02/25 | Heidenheim 1-2 Borussia Dortmund – 01/02/25 |
Sporting CP 1-1 Bologna – 29/01/25 | Borussia Dortmund 3-1 Shakhtar Donetsk – 29/01/25 |
Sporting CP 2-0 Nacional – 25/01/25 | Borussia Dortmund 2-2 Werder Bremen – 25/01/25 |
RB Leipzig 2-1 Sporting CP – 22/01/25 | Bologna 2-1 Borussia Dortmund – 21/01/25 |
country | TV channel/live stream |
|---|---|
United Kingdom | Discovery+, Discovery+ App, TNT Sports 2 |
United States | Paramount+ |
Canada | Dazn Canada |
Ill Discipline Marred Sporting’s 1-1 draw in Porto late Friday evening, with Ousmane Diomande and Matheus Reis received their marching commands in stop time. However, the couple is available for the game on Tuesday.
Morten Hjulmand, on the other hand, is suspended after the midfielder recorded his third booking of the competition last time against Bologna. He will be back for the second leg.
Viktor Gyokoker maintained a minor injury, but should be okay to start on Tuesday, while Nuno Santos, Pedro Goncalves and Joao Simoes are all injured.
Sporting CP predicted Lineup against Dortmund (4-3-3): Israel; Fresneda, Diomande, Inacio, Araujo; Braganca, Debast, Morita; Trincao, Gyokokers, Quenda.
The arrival in January, Carney Chukwuemeka, knocked a training session after the slump in the Deadline day and is a doubt about the game on Tuesday after missing the defeat against Stuttgart at the weekend. The experienced playmaker Julian Brandt will continue to operate as Dortmund’s number ten if the newcomer cannot be found.
Although Julian Rerson is recorded on Saturday, two yellow tickets, while Emre Niklas Sule in Center-Back can continue to be preferred.
The former midfielder of the Premier League, Marcel Sabitzer and Pascal Gross are expected to be equipped with Felix Nmecha at the base of Dortmund’s midfield.
Dortmund predicted Lineup VS Sporting CP (4-2-3-1): Kobel; Rerson, Can, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Sabitzer, gross; ADEYEMI, Brandt, Gittens; Guirassy.
Kovac was beaten at the debut and the new manager will take time to monitor a departure from the Edin Terzic/Sahin -era. This Dortmund team was on the defensive under the previous regime, and Kovac will finally make you a tricky outfit for everyone.
However, the weaknesses that have manifested themselves throughout the season remain, and we know that BVB almost always depends on the atmosphere in Signal Iduna Park to enjoy success in this competition. At her run until the final of last season, Dortmund was not able to win in the KO-FILL pieces in the KO levels in the KO levels in both legs of the semi-finals in the co-misalignment of Paris Saint-Germain.
There are tougher places than this iteration of Sporting, this is certain, but the hosts have rested an additional day and the Hitmen are able to pay for Dortmund for facts in concentration that were too common in this term.