Real Madrid host Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday in a re-run of last season’s UEFA Champions League final.
Dortmund have won two out of two in the league phase, dismantling Celtic 7-1 last time out.
However, the team that beat them 2-0 at Wembley last season were beaten 1-0 at Lille in their previous match and will be keen to get back to winning ways on home turf.
That ended a run of 53 games unbeaten across La Liga and the Champions League, and Carlo Ancelotti’s men have won their subsequent two games. Dortmund, now under head coach Nuri Sahin, still face an indisputably tall task.
The Jugo Mobile looks at the latest team news and predicted lineups for this match at the Santiago Bernabeu.
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Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund lineups, predicted starting 11, team news
Madrid have a relatively clean bill of health aside from long-term knee injury victims Dani Carvajal and David Alaba.
It means Ancelotti has enviable options in attack, with Kylian Mbappe now seemingly fully recovered from his recent muscular complaints. Brahim Diaz is also back in training following an abductor problem.
Lucas Vazquez is set to continue at right-back, with Ferland Mendy likely to be preferred to Fran Garcia in the other full-back position.
Real Madrid (4-3-3, right to left): Lunin (GK) — Vazquez, Rudiger, Militao, Mendy — Valverde, Tchouameni, Bellingham — Rodrygo, Mbappe, Vinicius
Injured: Alaba, CarvajalSuspended:
Karim Adeyemi plundered a hat-trick against Celtic but suffered a hamstring injury in the same game that will keep him sidelined until November. Serhou Guirassy has been starting in his absence at centre-forward and scored a late winner as BVB beat St Pauli 2-1 at the weekend.
That win also came at a cost as Pascal Gross was forced off at halftime. Lukas Nmecha or Jamie Gittens could replace the former Brighton playmaker if he doesn’t make it.
Niklas Sule has been laid low with illness over the past week and Sahin will hope to have the experienced defender available. Julian Duranville (thigh), Giovanni Reyna (groin) and Yan Couto (muscular) are all set to miss out.
Borussia Dortmund (4-1-4-1, right to left): Kobel (GK) — Ryerson, Sule, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini — Can —Malen, Brandt, Sabitzer, Gittens — Guirassy
Injured: Gross (doubt), Sule (doubt), Duranville, Reyna, CoutoSuspended:
Real Madrid vs. Borussia Dortmund live stream, TV channel
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