Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund are going to face on Thursday the 1st of January at 12:00 am in the 3rd week of the Champions League. The match will take place in Madrid at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. The appointed referee is Istvan Kovacs.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Real Madrid
Real Madrid has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 (1 times or 50.00% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (once) and 4-3-3 (once).
Carlo Ancelotti is expected to play against Borussia Dortmund with the following players: Thibaut Courtois, Ferland Mendy, Éder Militão, A. Rüdiger, Lucas Vázquez, J. Bellingham, A. Tchouaméni, E. Camavinga, Federico Valverde, Vinícius Júnior and Kylian Mbappé.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Real Madrid would be 26.73.
David Alaba, Daniel Carvajal and Brahim Díaz will definitely miss the match.
Borussia Dortmund
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (2 times).
Nuri Şahin is expected to play against Real Madrid with the following players: G. Kobel, Ramy Bensebaini, W. Anton, N. Schlotterbeck, J. Ryerson, Emre Can, P. Groß, M. Sabitzer, Julian Brandt, D. Malen and Serhou Guirassy.
If the line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Borussia Dortmund would be 28.18.
Nuri Şahin will probably not be able to employ Niklas Süle because of injury.
Yan Couto, Karim Adeyemi, Giovanni Reyna and Julien Duranville will definitely miss the match.
