Borussia Dortmund vs Zenit St Petersburg UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Borussia Dortmund and Zenit St Petersburg's only previous meeting in competitive football came back in the last 1 6 of the 2013-14 UEFA Champions League in which the German side progressed 5-4 over two legs.
Zenit St Petersburg won their only away game against Borussia Dortmund, picking up a 2-1 victory in March 2014, courtesy of goals from Hulk and Salomon Rondon.
Borussia Dortmund have lost two of their last three matches versus Russian teams in European football (W1), after going unbeaten in their first five such games (W4 D1).
Zenit St Petersburg are winless in their last six matches in European competition against teams from Germany (D1 L5), since a 2-1 victory against Borussia Dortmund in March 2014.
Borussia Dortmund have won their last three home games in the UEFA Champions League and are looking to secure four consecutive victories for the first time since a seven-game run between September 2012 and October 2013.
Since winning back-to-back away games in the UEFA Champions League in 2015, Zenit St Petersburg have failed to win any of their last five in the competition (D1 L4).
Following their 1-3 loss at Lazio on MD1, Borussia Dortmund are looking to avoid starting a UEFA Champions League campaign with two straight defeats for only the second time, previously doing so in 2017-18.
This will be Zenit's 50th game in the UEFA Champions League (W17 D11 L21), making the third Russian side to reach the milestone in the competition after Spartak Moscow and CSKA Moscow.
Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland could make his 10th UEFA Champions League appearance in this game - he’s already guaranteed to have scored more goals than any other player in their first 10 in the competition, with the Norwegian having netted 11 goals in nine games so far, averaging a goal every 59 minutes.
Borussia Dortmund's Jude Beiiingham became the youngest English player to start a UEFA Champions League game last time out against Lazio. Only two Englishmen have started 2+ games in the competition before turning 18 - Josh McEachran with Chelsea in 2010 and Phil Foden with Man City in 2017-18.
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