Borussia Dortmund and FC Köln are going to face off on Saturday in the 10th week of the Bundesliga. The match will take place in DORTMUND at the Signal-Iduna-Park.
Borussia Dortmund is 2nd in the league with 21 points. It comes from a 1-3 win against DSC Arminia Bielefeld in its last match in the Bundesliga. As of now, it has won 7 times and lost twice.
Borussia Dortmund won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 25th of September against Borussia Mönchengladbach and the score was 1-0.
FC Köln is 8th in the league with 13 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in its last match in the Bundesliga. As of now, it has won 3 times, draw 4 times, and lost twice.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Borussia Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund has mostly adopted the 3-4-1-2 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 33.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-1-2 3 times, 3-4-2-1 2 times, 3-5-2 once, 4-3-2-1 once, 4-2-3-1 once and 4-3-1-2 once.
Marco Rose is expected to play against FC Köln with the following players: M. Akanji, M. Hummels, E. Can, T. Hazard, J. Bellingham, A. Witsel, M. Wolf, M. Reus and J. Brandt.
The average age of Borussia Dortmund would be 27.44.
There are doubts about the presence of G. Kobel and D. Malen.
Marco Rosewill probably not be able to employ M. Dahoud and G. Reyna because of injury.
S. Coulibaly, R. Guerreiro, M. Morey Bauzà, M. Schmelzer, N. Schulz, E. Håland and S. Tigges will definitely miss the match.
FC Köln
FC Köln has mostly adopted the 4-1-3-2 line-up most used during the season (4 times or 44.44%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-1-3-2 4 times, 4-2-3-1 2 times, 4-3-3 2 times and 4-3-1-2 once.
Steffen Baumgart is expected to play against Borussia Dortmund with the following players: T. Horn, J. Hector, R. Czichos, L. Kilian, B. Schmitz, S. Özcan, D. Ljubicic, F. Kainz, O. Duda, M. Uth and A. Modeste.
The average age of FC Köln would be 27.73.
Steffen Baumgartwill probably not be able to employ E. Skhiri because of injury.
J. Horn will definitely miss the match.