Shakhtar Donetsk
Champions League
Group Stage
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M'gladbach
Shakhtar Donetsk
M'gladbach
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Borussia Mönchengladbach is in fine form at the right time, before a crucial match against Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday.
Champions of Ukraine for a fourth straight year, Shakhtar are the surprise leaders of Group B after beating Real Madrid 3-2 in Spain and then holding Inter to a goalless draw. They are yet to win a Champions League game at home to a Bundesliga club in five attempts (D4, L1 against Borussia Dortmund, Hoffenheim, Bayer Leverkusen, and Bayern Munich). Despite playing their home games some 400 miles away in Kyiv's Olympic Stadium, the ''Miners’’ are unbeaten in eight league games after their 4-1 win over Mariupol on Friday and currently sit second in the table, four points off Dynamo Kyiv.
Four-goal top scorer Viktor Kovalenko is likely to still out for this third group game. Nineteen-year-old local boy Anatoliy Trubin appears to have ousted veteran Andriy Pyatov in goal, although the latter was given the nod in the last league outing. Former Schalke winger Yevhen Konoplyanka is definitely out with a torn muscle, he played in the Bundesliga from 2016 to 2019. He went without a victory in four matches (two draws, two defeats) against Gladbach.
Shakhtar: Trubin - Dodo, Bondar, Khocholava, Korniyenko - Maycon, Antonio - Marlos (c), Patrick, Solomon - Moraes
Out: Ismaily (knee), Konoplyanka (muscular)
Doubtful: Dentinho (knock), Fernando (knock), Kovalenko (knock)
Coach: Luis Castro
Marcus Thuram has been the rising star of Gladbach's European campaign so far with his two goals last week against Real Madrid and winning a penalty in the previous 2-2 draw away at Inter Milan. In just two Champions League games, he has already scored twice as many goals as his World Cup-winning father Lilian did in 75 matches. It was a great surprise for all to see a strong start to a Gladbach team in a very difficult Group B, but they are currently occupying second place behind opponents Shakhtar (four points) after two rounds of games with two points. This is the first time that Gladbach will meet Shakhtar in a European competition.
Borussia is on a seven-match unbeaten run in all competitions, having beaten Bundesliga leaders RB Leipzig 1-0 on Saturday thanks to a Hannes Wolf strike on the hour mark. Marco Rose continued his policy of rotation in that game, with Thuram beginning on the bench. However, the Frenchman can expect to be restored to the starting XI, as can captain Lars Stindl. Nico Elvedi went off at half-time with what Rose described as a "tight muscle", but the Swiss center-back, who had previously played every minute in the league and Europe this season, should feature once again alongside regular partner Matthias Ginter in a settled back four. Ginter was on target in Germany's 2-1 UEFA Nations League win against Ukraine at Kyiv's Olympic Stadium, the venue for this game, on 10 October; Kovalenko and Marlos played for the home side.
Gladbach: Sommer - Lainer, Ginter, Elvedi, Bensebaini - Kramer, Neuhaus - Hofmann, Stindl (c), Thuram - Plea
Out: Poulsen (shoulder)
Doubtful: Jantschke (muscular), Zakaria (match fitness)
Coach: Marco Rose
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These teams were supposed to fight for third place in a strong group but after two rounds their chances for promotion to the knockout stage are much bigger. It could be a very entertaining match with both teams ready to score some goals.
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Daniel Garcia is originally from Basque Country, and as a kid who grew up just a few streets from Mendizorrotza Stadium, the choice of Deportivo Alavés as his favourite club is more than obvious. Because of his studies, he moved to Madrid where he graduated in Sports Journalism. Daniel plays football on the weekends, but that does not stop him from watching all La Liga matches. He believes that the outcome of a match can be predicted if all the parameters are analyzed well, including form of the players and weather conditions. Currently he is living in Belgrade, and is in love with a Serbian girl who works as a journalist at one of the famous Sport Channels in Serbia.