He soccer It is usually a truly capricious sport, offering possible revenge and confrontations that have already occurred in the past and in which there are pending scores to settle. One of these is the one that will occur between the Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmundboth finalists of the last edition of the Champions League.
It was last June when Madrid and Germans met at Wembley Stadium.. Madrid had just eliminated RB Leipzig, Manchester City and Bayern Munich, and Dortmund had eliminated PSV, Atlético de Madrid and PSG. After about 45 minutes of the “Die Schwarz-Gelben” (the black and yellow in German) in which they were superior to the meringues, they recovered and scored two goals, from Carvajal and Vinicius Júnior, which gave them the Champions number 15 to the Real Madrid showcases.
After a few months, the situation seems to have changed for both teams. For him Dortmundis currently outside the European positions, since seventh in the Bundesliga, although his two games in the UEFA Champions League has won them, with results of 0-3 to Bruges Belgian and 7-1 to Glasgow Celticw.
For its part, Real Madrid has had an irregular start to the seasonin which he does not carry out his matches with solvency or forcefulness. The last match, against Celta VigoReal Madrid won with a adjusted result of 1-2while in the Champions League, the last precedent was a 1-0 defeat against French side Lille. A victory against the Germans would surely help return to peace before the Classic next Saturday.
It will be the Romanian István Kovács the person in charge of deliver justice in the meeting between the people of Madrid and the Germans. It will be the third time that the Eastern European referee will officiate a Real Madrid match, the previous ones being the 2-5 against Liverpool in the 2022-2023 season and the first leg of the semi-finals against Manchester City in the 2021-2022 season. , in which there was a thrilling 4-3.
Date and time of Real Madrid – Borussia Dortmund
The match corresponding to the third day of the UEFA Champions League group stage between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund will be played today, Tuesday October 22from the 9:00 p.m.Spanish time. in the stadium Santiago Bernabéu.
Where to watch matchday 3 of the Champions League on TV and online
The meeting between Madrid and Germans can be seen live with the payment platform MovistarPlus+specifically with its channel dedicated to the top European competition at club level, MovistarPlus+ Champions League. Likewise, LA RAZÓN will offer a minute by minute monitoring of the matchwith the most outstanding plays and the latest sports hour.
Possible alignments
real Madrid
The Madrid team will have the absences of Brahim, Alaba and Carvajalthe latter two being long-lasting. In the case of the Spanish full-back, he will miss the remainder of the season.
- Possible Real Madrid eleven: Courtois; Lucas Vázquez, Militão, Rüdiger, Mendy; Tchouaméni, Camavinga, Valverde, Bellingham; Mbappé, Vinicius Júnior.
Borussia Dortmund
For its part, the German team will not be able to have Yan Couto, Karim Adeyemi, Giovanni Reyna and Julien Duranvilleall of them due to injury.
- Possible Borussia Dortmund eleven: Kobel; Ryerson, Anton, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Gross, Can; Malen, Brandt, Sabitzer; Guirassy.