Sporting CP and Borussia Dortmund meet at Estadio Jose Alvalade on Tuesday with the hosts winless within the UEFA Champions League since Ruben Amorim left. Rui Borges is now in cost and can try and navigate the knockout spherical playoffs in opposition to the German guests who’ve simply appointed Niko Kovac. Regardless of the poor UCL type since Amorim’s departure, the Portuguese giants are unbeaten of their final seven video games throughout all competitions and solely dropped factors in opposition to Bologna.

BVB had been crushed over the weekend by Stuttgart as Kovac began his reign with a loss which is their fifth from eight video games throughout all competitions. Down within the backside half of the desk, Dortmund are 13 video games and not using a clear sheet courting again to November. That mentioned, 22 objectives scored within the league section ranked them simply behind Barcelona for attacking and the final time that these two met it was the hosts who got here out on high 3-1 again in late 2021.

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Champions League skilled picks, predictions, finest bets: Can Manchester Metropolis maintain off Actual Madrid at residence?

Pardeep Cattry

How you can watch and odds

• Date: Tuesday, February 11 | Time: 3 p.m. ET
• Location: Estadio Jose Alvalade – Lisbon, Portugal
• Watch: Paramount+
• Odds: Sporting +120; Draw +260; Dortmund +210

League section up to now

Dortmund simply missed out on a high eight end whereas Sporting nearly scraped a high 24 berth regardless of begin. After 10 factors from 4 video games, the Portuguese outfit didn’t win any of their remaining 4 with some extent in opposition to Bologna sufficient to qualify through aim distinction. The Italians beating BVB was the ultimate straw for Nuri Sahin and though Mike Tullberg briefly oversaw the 3-1 win over Shakhtar Donetsk which edged Actual Madrid for a high 10 end within the league section.

Crew information

Sporting: Morten Hjulmand is suspended whereas Pedro Goncalves, Joao Simoes and Nuno Santos are unavailable. Matheus Reis and Ousmane Diomande ought to begin though Conrad More durable would possibly miss out with Viktor Gyokeres returning as he tries so as to add to his 34 objectives up to now this season.

Potential Sporting XI: Israel; Fresneda, Diomande, Inacio, Araujo; Braganca, Debast, Morita; Trincao, Gyokeres, Quenda.

Dortmund: Carney Chukwuemeka is a doubt whereas Felix Nmecha is out however in any other case Kovac has a robust squad to select from. Serhou Guirassy is eyeing his tenth UCL aim of the time period with no Dortmund participant ever managing 11 in a single season.

Potential Dortmund XI: Kobel; Ryerson, Can, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Sabitzer, Gross; Adeyemi, Brandt, Gittens; Guirassy.

Prediction

Though this might fairly simply be a rating draw, the Germans are prone to shade it by a aim given Sporting’s main type points in Europe since Amorim left. Choose: Sporting 1, Dortmund 2.