UEFA Champions League: Play off (1st leg)
Venue: Estádio José Alvalade (Lisbon)
Time: 2300hrs
What you need to know
- Sporting and Dortmund are two of the four teams who scored in all eight of their league phase games.
- Sporting are yet to lose at home under new manager Rui Borges (W4, D1), who is tasked with guiding the club to the last 16 of the UCL for just the second time since 2008/09.
- After taking 10 points from their opening four Champions League matches to enter the top-eight conversation, Sporting failed to triumph in any of their last four games in the opening phase.
- Dortmund’s lack of defensive discipline have made them go 13 games without a clean sheet across all competitions.
- BVB have welcomed ex-Bayern Munich boss Niko Kovac into the dugout, but his reign got off to the worst possible start; Dortmund suffered a 2-1 home loss to Stuttgart in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
Form – last six games
Sporting CP: DWDWLW
Dortmund: LWWDLL
Head-to-head last four games
Sporting CP: 1
Draw:0
Dortmund:3
Possible starting line-ups
Sporting CP: Israel; Fresneda, Diomande, Inacio, Araujo; Braganca, Debast, Morita; Trincao, Gyokeres, Quenda.
Dortmund: Kobel; Ryerson, Can, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Sabitzer, Gross; Adeyemi, Brandt, Gittens; Guirassy.
Players to watch
Sporting CP: Viktor Gyokeres
Dortmund: Serhou Guirassy
Injury list
Sporting CP: Pedro Goncalves (muscle), Joao Simoes (unspecified) and Nuno Santos (ACL).
Dortmund: Federico Nmecha
