With a win against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, Borussia Dortmund wants to regain sixth place on Sunday. However, one duo is expected to be canceled.
That would be bitter for Borussia Dortmund: As the “Ruhr Nachrichten” reports, both Ryerson and Julian Brandt will be out on Sunday, December 15th, 5:30 p.m. Then BVB hosts TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
Both failures would hit BVB hard. There is already an unprecedented shortage in defense due to the injuries to Waldemar Anton, Niklas Süle and Nico Schlotterbeck.
At least there was still some residual hope at Schlotterbeck recently: “The diagnosis is positive if you can evaluate it positively. We'll wait and see whether it's enough,” BVB coach Nuri Şahin said at the matchday press conference.
Nico Schlotterbeck's exact diagnosis was already given on Friday, but BVB coach Sahin remained vague: “It didn't happen what you would have expected from the TV pictures. There's a little something, but not what we suspected.” As a coach, he has a remaining hope for “every injured player”.
Schlotterbeck himself even reported fit on Sunday: “I'm fit,” he told a fan. Should he start, he would form the central defense together with Emre Can and Ramy Bensebaini would play on the outside.
The plan, if Schlotterbeck doesn't get fit, would probably look like this: Emre Can and Ramy Bensebaini form the central defense, Yan Couto and Ryerson work the defensive wings – that's the theory.
But that would now be outdated again. An obvious consequence would be that Pascal Groß moves to the right-back position and Couto switches sides. Giovani Reyna and Almugera Kabar would also be options.
Reyna could also take Brandt's place, who will also be sorely missed as a creative player. BVB is currently struggling in terms of personnel. After all: Karim Adeyemi is an option again.
The next opponent is Hoffenheim, but with a different coach: Christian Ilzer has taken over TSG, previously he coached Sturm Graz. This is the second time in a few weeks that BVB will face the same coach, but this time with a different team: “He now has completely different types of players at his disposal. His philosophy probably won't have changed. I was very positively surprised against Sturm Graz “How intensely they played,” Sahin had praised in advance.
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