Lazio vs Borussia Dortmund UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Lazio and Borussia Dortmund have only met twice previously, with Dortmund eliminating Lazio over two legs in the 1994/95 UEFA Cup quarter-final (0-1, 2-0). In the UEFA Champions League,
Lazio have only faced German sides in two previous campaigns -they drew both group stage games with Bayer Leverkusen in 1999/00, while they won at home and lost away against Werder Bremen in 2007/08, again in the group stage.
Borussia Dortmund have lost each of their last three away UEFA Champions League matches in Italy -their last away win there was against AC Milan back in March 2003 with Jan Koller netting the winner in a 1-0 victory.
Lazio are making their first appearance in the UEFA Champions League since the 2007 /08 season, when they were eliminated at the group stage. No player has made more appearances in the competition for Lazio than current boss Simone Inzaghi (31) while lnzaghi is also Lazio's top scorer in the competition (15).
Borussia Dortmund have lost their last three away UEFA Champions League matches, last losing four consecutive away major UEFA European games back in May 1993, when they lost four in a row in the UEFA Cup.
Lazio have lost eight of their last 10 major UEFA European matches (W2), one more than they'd lost in their previous 46 games (7), with all games coming in the Europa League. Borussia Dortmund are featuring in a fifth consecutive UEFA Champions League campaign, only the third German team to achieve that run after Bayern Munich (13 in a row, 2008/09 -2020/21) and Werder Bremen (5, 2004/05 -2008/09).
Lazio striker Ciro Immobile scored four goals in the 2014/15 UEFA Champions League group stages for Borussia Dortmund -Lazio will be lmmobile's fourth club in the competition (Juventus, Dortmund, Sevilla), with this match potentially his 11th game -only Burak Yilmaz has made an appearance for four teams in fewer appearances (9).
Only Robert Lewandowski (1 0) scored more goals in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League group stages than Erling Haaland (8), who was then playing for RB Salzburg.
Dortmund striker Haaland is averaging a goal or assist every 50 minutes in the competition (10 goals, 1 assist). New Borussia Dortmund signing Jude Bellingham could become the fourth youngest English player to play in the UEFA Champions League and youngest since Ainsley Maitland-Niles in 2014 (17y 102d).
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If both Bellingham and Jadon Sancho feature, it would be the first time since Real Madrid vs Arsenal in February 2006 (Woodgate and Owen) two English players featured for a non-British club in a Champions League game.
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