On matchday 10, the Bundesliga looks ahead to the duel between runner-up Borussia Dortmund and champions FC Bayern. Shortly before kick-off, BVB head coach Edin Terzic had to cope with some bad news. Thomas Tuchel, on the other hand, can look forward to two good ones.
Emre Can is missing from BVB in the Bundesliga classic (6:30 p.m.) against FC Bayern. “Sky” had previously reported on the outage.
The Dortmund captain suffered a bruise above the knee in the Champions League game in Newcastle (1-0), which meant he had to miss both the league duel against Eintracht Frankfurt (3-3) and the cup clash against 1899 Hoffenheim ( 1:0) missed. Emre Can will again be represented by Salih Özcan against FC Bayern.
Good news for FC Bayern
On the part of the guests from Munich, the precarious personnel situation has now eased somewhat. The recently injured Dayot Upamecano and Leon Goretzka not only traveled to Dortmund, but are also in the starting line-up.
Coach Thomas Tuchel declared on Friday that he wanted to wait until shortly before the kick-off of the Bundesliga top game before making a decision about the starting eleven. “We will have long discussions with the players, with the doctors, and then make a decision very, very late,” he said on Friday afternoon.
Upamecano has recently been suffering from a muscle injury, Goretzka has to play with a splint on the hand that was broken almost two weeks ago. “The natural step” is not to use both of them, both of them were not in the squad for the 1:2 on Wednesday in the second round game of the DFB Cup at 1. FC Saarbrücken, said Tuchel – and yet: “If Upa can’t, then Leon can “If Leon can’t do it then Upa, that’s roughly the plan.”