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Pre-Match Report

The facts for the second leg against Sporting

Borussia Dortmund will host Sporting Lisbon at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK on Wednesday evening (kick-off 18:45 CET, live on DAZN) in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League playoff round. The statistics and history speak in favour of Black & Yellows.

The scenario: BVB won the first leg 3-0. Extra time or a penalty shoot-out will be played if Sporting are leading by three goals after 90 or 120 minutes. Goals scored away from home no longer count ‘double’ if the score is level after the first and second legs. Sporting have met German teams seven times in knock-out matches, with the Lisbon club being eliminated seven times without winning a single game (four draws, eleven defeats). Borussia have come out on top in all three of their knockout ties with teams from Portugal.

Home & away: The Black & Yellows have lost only one of their last 15 home matches in the UEFA Champions League, recording ten wins and four draws. The goals scored to conceded ratio is 33 to nine. In only five of these 14 games have BVB conceded a goal. Sporting have lost 14 of the 16 matches they've played away to Germany clubs, with the exception of a draw in Munich in 2006, and a win in Frankfurt in 2022.

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Head-to-head: Borussia's record against clubs from Portugal is ten wins and five defeats, with not a single tied game. BVB have won all seven of their home games against Portuguese opposition, scoring 18 goals and conceding just two. They have kept a clean sheet in each of the last four matches. THE Black & Yellows have always prevailed in knock-out clashes: against Benfica in 1963 and 2017, and against FC Porto in 2016. Of the 17 ties in UEFA competitions in which Borussia have won the first leg away from home, they have progressed 16 times, most recently against Sevilla in the round of 16 of the 2020/21 Champions League (a 3-2 away win and a 2-2 home draw). Their only exit came in the 2004 Intertoto Cup, when they won the first leg 1-0 in Genk but lost the second 2-1 at home.

Sporting facts: After Barcelona, Sporting are the most successful sports club in Europe in terms of titles and trophies won across all the sports in which they compete. Portuguese league champions 20 times, cup winners 17 times and winners of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1964, the club have played 33 matches against teams from Germany, winning only four of them. Six ended in draws and 23 in defeat. Sporting have never beaten a German opponent in a knockout game.

Compiled by Boris Rupert

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