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| | | Subotic hopes to return against Wolfsburg - Kehl and Bender also ruled out against Man City | | | | [3.12.] Borussia Dortmund will have to do without a number of key players for their UEFA Champions League game against Manchester City on Tuesday (kick-off: 2045 CET). Sebastian Kehl, Sven Bender and Neven Subotic have all been ruled out for the Bundesliga champions´ clash with the Premier League champions. | | |  | | Sebastian Kehl and Sven Bender will miss the game against Manchester City. [firo] |
Mario Götze, Jakub Blaszczykowski and Lukasz Piszczek have also been rated doubtful, while Chris Löwe and Patrick Owomoyela are out following surgeries.
"At the moment I can´t really say which players will start yet," said Jürgen Klopp on Monday. "But we will get a team out." Despite the all the injuries ahead of the last group game in front of a capacity 66,000 crowd at Signal Iduna Park, the BVB coach made clear, "The Champions League is still a very interesting affair. And this should be reflected in our play despite our injury problems."
 | | Neven Subotic with team doctor Markus Braun after being substituted against Bayern. |
Kehl (knee), Bender (groin) and Subotic are definitively ruled out, with the Serb suffering from a bruised pelvis and a minor muscle strain, though the injuries are not considered too serious. "It is not as bad as feared," said Klopp on the BVB defender´s injury he sustained on Saturday against Bayern and which will rule him out of the Manchester City clash. But, so Klopp, "there is hope for the match this weekend."
Götze and Piszczek sat out the final training session before Tuesday´s match with thigh and hip problems, respectively, while Blaszczykowski missed training with a heavy cold.
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