Shakhtar Donetsk vs Borussia Monchengladbach UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
This is the first ever competitive European meeting between Shakhtar Donetsk and Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Shakhtar Donetsk’s four home UEFA Champions League matches against German opponents have all ended as a draw against a different team each time – Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim.
Borussia Mönchengladbach’s last meeting with a Ukranian team was in the UEFA Champions League qualifying phase in 2012/13 against Dynamo Kiev, going out 4-3 on aggregate despite a 2-1 win in Kiev in the second leg.
The last German side to win away in Ukraine in the UEFA Champions League were Bayern Munich at Dynamo Kiev in December 1994 – the last nine have all failed to win (D6 L3).
Shakhtar Donetsk are winless in seven home UEFA Champions League matches (D4 L3), their worst run without winning at home in the competition.
Borussia Mönchengladbach have won just two of their 14 UEFA Champions League matches (14%), the second-worst of any German club in the competition’s history, ahead of only Hoffenheim (0% - P6 W0 D3 L3).
Shakhtar Donetsk had just four shots in their 0-0 draw with Inter Milan on MD2, their fewest in a UEFA Champions League match since March 2015 against Bayern Munich (3).
Shakhtar’s two UEFA Champions League starting XI’s in 2020/21 have featured seven players aged 21 or younger in both matches – they could become the first team to do so three times in the competition: CSKA Moscow did so twice in April 1993, while Barcelona have done so twice in December 2008 and December 2011.
Borussia Mönchengladbach’s Alassane Pléa has assisted in each of his two UEFA Champions League appearances so far, the first Frenchman to achieve that in their first two games since Olivier Giroud in October 2012 for Arsenal.
Marcus Thuram netted a brace against Real Madrid on MD2, becoming only the second Borussia Mönchengladbach player to score a UEFA Champions League brace after Lars Stindl. The last time a Gladbach player scored 2+ goals in back to back European Cup games was in September 1970, when both Horst Köppel and Herbert Laumen did so against EPA Larnaka.
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