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The Champions League group stage clash will take place on Wednesday 25 November, in which Shakhtar Donetsk will play away with Borussia Mönchengladbach.
The first game with Borussia, which took place on November 3 in Kiev at the NSC Olimpiyskiy, the Pitmen want to forget like a nightmare. Tennis 0: 6: it is not at all the result with which the charges of Luis Castro had.
Much can be said that Shakhtar did not deserve such a defeat, but the score is on the scoreboard. The game with Borussia turned into a freezing rain for the Donetsk team after the victory over Real Madrid (3: 2) and the draw with Inter (0: 0). It seems that everything that Inter did not score in their match against the Pitmen was scored by Borussia.
After the first game with the Germans, Shakhtar managed to play two games in the Ukrainian league. The Donetsk team defeated Dynamo 3: 0, which was facilitated by Neshcheret’s error at the start and Sidorchuk’s elimination, and in the 10th round they drew with Oleksandriya (1: 1). Yes, in the match with Oleksandriya, the Pitmen played with ten men from the 31st minute after the controversial expulsion of Moraes (the forward roughly pushed the opponent’s leg without bad intention, but slipped on the wet grass), but still , Shakhtar’s game is very far not as safe as last season.
The Pitmen also have serious personnel losses. They all got used to the absence of Ismaily and Konoplyanka. Young Kornienko was injured in the game against the Dynamo. Kovalenko recently had a coronavirus. Also, Tyson, Dentinho and Khocholava were not included in the application of the Ukrainian team. Especially notable will be the absence of Tyson, who appears to be openly awaiting the expiration of his contract with Shakhtar and returning to Brazil.
“We know that we are in an unstable season, that we have players who appear and disappear. There are players who return on the eve of the game, there are those who are injured for a long time, they are absent for a long time … This instability is now manifesting itself and generates a certain discomfort. Subscribe to the result even before the match result is determined? It all depends on how the game goes. If it shows that we can clearly win, of course, the tie will not please me, if it develops in such a way that the tie is more fair, I will accept it. “, – said the Shakhtar coach before the game Luis Castro.
And Borussia? Mönchengladbach’s side have a shaky season in the Bundesliga and have stalled in the last two games. First, Borussia lost to Bayer with a score of 3: 4 in a scoring match, and on the final match day of the championship they drew with Augsburg at home. After 8 rounds played, Borussia occupies the seventh place in the German championship, with 12 points in the asset with the difference between goals scored and conceded 13-13
“We understand that the result of the Kiev match will not help us tomorrow. Shakhtar will play differently. They are a good team, they have a very high quality composition. Each team now has its own personnel problems “, – says the Borussia coach Marko roze.
It will be very difficult for the unstable Shakhtar after 0: 6 in Kiev, and even in someone else’s stadium, albeit empty. But with Inter and Real it will certainly not be easier. If the Pitmen want to reach the Champions League playoffs, they must do everything they can to score points against the German club.
The bookies consider the hosts to be the clear favorites of the meeting. Borussia’s victory has a coefficient of approximately 1.5. For Shakhtar to win: 5.7-6.45. A tie with odds 4.6-4.85 is estimated.
Approximate compositions:
Borussia Monchengladbach: Sommer – Liner, Ginter, Elvedi, Wendt, Kramer, Neuhaus, Hermann, Stindl, Thuram, Embolo.
“Miner”: Pyatov: Dodo, Krivtsov, Matvienko, Cipriano, Stepanenko, Maicon, Marlos, Patrick, Solomon, Moraes.
Wednesday 25 November
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