Borussia Dortmund and Sturm Graz will play on Thursday the 1st of January at 12:00 am in the 4th week of the Champions League. The match is going to be played in Dortmund at the Signal Iduna Park. The encounter will be officiated by Erik Lambrechts.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Borussia Dortmund
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (3 times).
Nuri Şahin is expected to play against Sturm Graz with the following players: Alexander Meyer, N. Schlotterbeck, P. Groß, Emre Can, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, Julian Brandt, Felix Nmecha, Maximilian Beier and Serhou Guirassy.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Borussia Dortmund would be 27.00.
There are doubts about the presence of W. Anton.
Nuri Şahin will probably not be able to employ G. Kobel, J. Ryerson and M. Sabitzer because of injury.
Yan Couto, Niklas Süle, Karim Adeyemi, Giovanni Reyna and Julien Duranville will definitely miss the match.
Sturm Graz
Sturm Graz has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-4-1-1 and 4-2-2-2 (1 times or 33.33% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-1-1 (once), 4-2-2-2 (once) and 4-3-1-2 (once).
Christian Ilzer is expected to play against Borussia Dortmund with the following players: Kjell Scherpen, Dimitri Lavalėe, Emanuel Aiwu, Niklas Geyrhofer, J. Gazibegović, William Bøving, Tochi Chukwuani, O. Kiteishvili, Malick Yalcouyé, Seedy Jatta and Mika Biereth.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Sturm Graz would be 23.09.
Alexandar Borković, Gregory Wüthrich, Jon Gorenc Stankovic and Manprit Sarkaria will definitely miss the match.
