Sevilla vs Borussia Dortmund UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics đź“Š
Sevilla and Borussia Dortmund’s only previous meeting in European competition came in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League group stages. The side from AndalucĂa won 1-0 in Dortmund before a 2-2 draw at the Sanchez-Pizjuan.
Borussia Dortmund have won none of their last 10 away games against Spanish opposition in the UEFA Champions League (D3 L7), conceding at least two goals in nine of those 10 trips. Dortmund’s only away win on Spanish soil in the competition came in October 1996 against AtlĂ©tico Madrid (1-0) – they would go on to lift the UCL trophy later that season.
Sevilla have hosted German opposition 12 times previously in European competition – they’ve only lost one of those 12 matches (W7 D4), against Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League (1-2).
In what is their sixth UEFA Champions League appearance, Sevilla have reached the knockout stages for the fifth time. They’ve only made it past the round of 16 on one occasion though, in 2017/18 – they were eventually eliminated by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals.
Borussia Dortmund are in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League for the seventh time in their last eight appearances. They haven’t progressed past the round of 16 since 2016/17 – they were eventually knocked out by Monaco in the quarter-finals.
Borussia Dortmund have lost their last six away games in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League, conceding 14 goals and scoring only two. In fact, their only victory in their last 12 k/o away games dates back to February 2014 against Zenit (4-2).
Four of Sevilla’s last seven UEFA Champions League goals have been scored by Youssef En-Nesyri. In fact, only Marouane Chamakh (8 goals in 30 matches) and Hakim Ziyech (6 in 22) have scored more UCL goals than En-Nesyri (4 in 6) among Moroccan players.
Among players with 3+ goals in this season’s UEFA Champions League group stages, only Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud boasted a better minutes per goal ratio (one every 28 minutes) than Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland (58 minutes) and Sevilla’s Youssef En-Nesyri (59 minutes).
Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland has scored 16 goals in 12 UEFA Champions League games, the fastest player ever to reach that tally of goals in the competition ahead of Ruud van Nistelrooy and Roberto Soldado (both 16 goals in his first 20 appearances).
Borussia Dortmund’s Manuel Akanji carried the ball forward on average 183 meters per game during the group stages of this season’s UEFA Champions League (731 meters in 4 games), more than any other defender to have made more than one appearance.
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