Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund are going to face on Saturday the 11th of March at 6:30 pm in the 24th week of the Bundesliga. The match is going to be staged in Gelsenkirchen at the VELTINS-Arena. The encounter will be officiated by Marco Fritz.
Schalke 04 is in the 18th position in the league with 19 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against VfL Bochum 1848 in its last match in the Bundesliga. As of now, it has won 4 times, draw 7 times, and lost 12 times.
Borussia Dortmund sits in the 2nd position in the league with 49 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against RB Leipzig in its last match in the Bundesliga. So far, it has won 16 times, drawn once, and lost 6 times.
Borussia Dortmund won the last 8 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 11th of November against Borussia Mönchengladbach and the score was 4-2.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Schalke 04
Schalke 04 has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (13 times or 56.52%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (13 times), 4-1-4-1 (3 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (once), 4-5-1 (once) and 4-2-2-2 (once).
Thomas Reis is expected to play against Borussia Dortmund with the following players: Ralf Fährmann, Henning Matriciani, Maya Yoshida, Moritz Jenz, Cedric Brunner, Alex Král, Tom Krauss, Éder Balanta, Marius Bülter, Rodrigo Zalazar Martínez and Michael Frey.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Schalke 04 would be 28.78.
Thomas Ouwejan, Jere Uronen, Soichiro Kozuki, Danny Latza, Tim Skarke, Niklas Tauer, Sepp van den Berg and Sebastian Polter will definitely miss the match.
Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (13 times or 56.52%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (13 times), 4-1-4-1 (3 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 4-5-1 (3 times) and 3-5-2 (once).
Edin Terzic is expected to play against Schalke 04 with the following players: Alexander Meyer, Raphaël Guerreiro, Niklas Süle, Nico Schlotterbeck, Julian Ryerson, Emre Can, Salih Özcan, Jude Bellingham, Giovanni Reyna and Sébastien Haller.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Borussia Dortmund would be 26.40.
There are doubts about the presence of Marco Reus.
Edin Terzic will probably not be able to employ Gregor Kobel because of injury.
Mate Morey, Karim Adeyemi, Julian Brandt and Youssoufa Moukoko will definitely miss the match.