Borussia Dortmund travels to Lisbon for the first game of his Play-off of the Champions League against Sports CP.
Was a whirlwind 2024/25 for both teams, with a sports CP fading after the departure of Ruben Amorim at Manchester United. Portuguese champions were prepared to get it to the league phase table after Thumping Manchester City 4-1But they failed to win any of their last four games and barely searched the play-offs.
Amorim’s successor, Joao Pereira, lasted only six weeks in charge and Sporting has been directed by Rui Borges from Boxing Day. They are four clear points at the top of the Primeira League.
Niko Kovac overseen the defeat in his management arch in Dortmund on Saturday, after having replaced Nuri Sahin in the mouth. Last season finalists endured a league phase up and down, but the victory over Shakhtar Donetsk on the 8th saw them finish tenth and outside the automatic qualification places for the 16 round.
They will now fight with the sport of more than two legs to try to continue their continental journey.
Here’s everything you need to know about Tuesday’s Champions League Play-off.
Sporting CP vs Borussia Dortmund H2H Record (All Games)
Current form (all competitions)
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Sports CP |
Borussia Dortmund |
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Port 1-1 Sporting CP – 02/07/25 |
Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Stuttgart – 02/02/25 |
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Sporting CP 3-1 Farense – 02/02/25 |
Heidenheim 1-2 Borussia Dortmund – 01/02/25 |
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Sporting CP 1-1 Bologna – 29/01/25 |
Borussia Dortmund 3-1 Shakhtar Donetsk – 29/01/25 |
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Sporting CP 2-0 National – 25/01/25 |
Borussia Dortmund 2-2 Werder Bremen – 25/01/25 |
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RB Leipzig 2-1 CP CP – 22/01/25 |
Bologna 2-1 Borussia Dortmund – 01/21/25 |
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Field |
TV Channel/Stream Live |
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UK |
Discovery+, Discovery+ App, TNT Sports 2 |
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United States |
Paramount+ |
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Canada |
Dazn Canada |
The discipline of the discipline marked Sporting 1-1 tie in Porto on Friday night, with Ousmane Diomande and Matheus Reis receiving their march orders in the time of stoppage. However, the couple is available for Tuesday’s game.
Morten Hjulmand, on the other hand, is suspended after the midfielder collected his third reserve in the competition last time against Bologna. Will return to the second stage.
Viktor Gyokeres has been breastfeeding a minor injury, but it should be good to start on Tuesday, while Nuno Santos, Pedro Goncalves and Joao Simoes are injured.
CP Sporting CP planis VS Dortmund (4-3-3): Israel; Fresheda, Diomande, Incio, Araujo; Braganca, Degast, Morita; TRINCAO, GYOKERES, QUENDA.
Arrival January CARNEY He did a training session after incorporating the day of the deadline and is a doubt for the game on Tuesday after losing the weekend’s defeat in Stuttgart. The experienced player Julian Brandt will continue to function as Dortmund’s number ten if the beginner is not appropriate.
Julian Ryerson is available despite collecting two yellow cards on Saturday, while Emre may continue to prefer to Niklas Sule at Center-Torn.
Former Premier League The midfielders, Marcel Sabitzer and Pascal Gross, will be able to operate as a whole at the base of the Dortmund midfield with Felix Nmecha.
Dortmund predicted the VS Sporting CP line (4-2-3-1): Kobel; Ryerson, Can, Slotterbeck, Besetbaini; Sabitzer, dirty; Adeyemi, mark, back; Giirassy.
Kovac was beaten in debut and the new manager will be needed to monitor a displacement of the Edin Terzic/Sahin. This Dortmund team was defensively miserable under the previous regime, and Kovac will make them a complicated dress for anyone.
However, the vulnerabilities that have manifested all season are maintained and we know that BVB has almost always been entrusted with the atmosphere created in the Signal Iduna Park as a means of enjoying success in this competition. In his last season, Dortmund did not win PSV Eindhoven and Atlético de Madrid in the stages eliminated before defeating Paris Saint-Germain on both legs of the semifinal.
There are tougher places to go through this iteration of sport, that is, but the hosts have enjoyed an additional day and have that those in attacks capable of making Dortmund pay the vaults in concentration that are too common In this term.
