In the 2022-23 Champions League, Chelsea topped Group E ahead of Italian giants Milan, Red Bull Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb, with their only defeat coming in the opening game away in the Croatian capital. Borussia Dortmund qualified for the round of 16 by finishing in second place behind Manchester City in Group G. Their nine-point tally in the group stage was the lowest of any team to qualify for the last 16, as they finished above LaLiga club Sevilla and FC Copenhagen. Their only defeat in the group came against Man City at the Etihad Stadium, in a match that they led until the 80th minute before goals from John Stones and former striker Erling Haaland turned the game around. Players to Watch Borussia Dortmund: Jude Bellingham He may still be only 19 years old, but Jude Bellingham is an instrumental figure in Edin Terzić’s BVB side. Despite his teenage years, he was named as club captain in the summer, and has the ability to control the tempo of the game.
Across all competitions in 2022-23, Bellingham has been involved in 135 different open-play sequences that have led to a BVB shot. Amazingly, Bellingham tops both the ‘shot attempted’ and ‘build-up involvement’ categories in the metric, showing how he is integral in building up play but also prominent in popping up and being on the end of chances. He really is a do-it-all midfielder. Bellingham is Dortmund’s top scorer in all competitions this season (10 goals), while only Raphaël Guerreiro (seven) has more assists than the English midfielder (six).
Potter has done well at the Blues in Champions League action, with the former Brighton boss unbeaten in five games in the competition and winning each of the last four. Should Chelsea win this encounter, he’d become the first English manager to win five successive UCL games. It’ll be a tough ask for Chelsea and Potter, as Borussia Dortmund have lost just four of their last 21 Champions League matches at home (W10 D7 L4), although three of these defeats have come against English opponents – two defeats against Spurs (2-1 in 2017-18 and 1-0 in 2018-19) and one versus Man City (2-1 in 2020-21). Recent Form Borussia Dortmund are on a brilliant run of form. The German side have won all six competitive matches since the resumption of football post-World Cup, with five Bundesliga victories and one in the DFB Pokal against top-flight Bochum. This is their best winning run since their 10 wins in a row between April and August 2021.
Following the 2022 FIFA World Cup, BVB have shared the goals around the team, with no fewer than 10 different goalscorers in those six matches: Giovanni Reyna (three), Nico Schlotterbeck (two), Karim Adeyemi (two), Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (two), Julian Brandt (two), Emre Can, Marco Reus, Julian Ryerson, Jude Bellingham and Sébastien Haller have all got on the scoresheet. Since Graham Potter took over at Chelsea from Thomas Tuchel in mid-September, the Blues have won just a third of their 23 competitive matches (nine). They are currently on a four-game unbeaten run in all competitions in which they’ve conceded only one goal, but the last three of these have all been draws (0-0s vs. Liverpool and Fulham and 1-1 vs.
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West Ham at the weekend). Since Chelsea’s last UEFA Champions League fixture – a 2-1 home win over Dinamo Zagreb – Potter’s side have won just two of their 12 competitive games, losing three times as many matches (six) and drawing four. No Chelsea player has scored more than one goal for the club so far in 2023, with their four competitive goals in eight games coming via Kai Havertz, João Félix, Kalidou Koulibaly and Raheem Sterling.
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