Champions League: Group Stage between Borussia Dortmund and Beşiktaş

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Competition: Europe Champions League
Competition: Tue 07.December
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Signal-Iduna-Park (81365 seats)

This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Borussia Dortmund at Signal-Iduna-Park when the Champions League tournament arrives in town and Beşiktaş with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

It's quite the trip for Beşiktaş when visiting Borussia as the cities are 2400 kilometers apart.

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Borussia Dortmund form and stats

Borussia participated in Champions League the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals and lost against Manchester City.

7-0-1 is the performance here at Signal-Iduna-Park so far in the Bundesliga, giving Borussia Dortmund a total of 21 from their 8 games here. Outstanding results! This match is a Champions League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses in this competition.

The Borussia crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-3 to Bayern München here at Signal-Iduna-Park in a Bundesliga match. Jude Bellingham (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.41/10. Bellingham signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.

In the preceding match a 3-1 victory visiting Wolfsburg.

Borussia Dortmund are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found ten matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won ten, drew zero and lost zero.

Borussia Dortmund are traveling soon after this match as the Bundesliga match at Bochum awaits in four days.

Borussia are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Signal-Iduna-Park in their league games, having scored an impressive 23 goals in 8 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 12 goals have been conceded.

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Beşiktaş form and stats

Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the 2nd qualifying round.

There's been little loot from Beşiktaş's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 7 away games in the Super Lig. Beşiktaş only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 2 draws. When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 0W-0D-5L. This is both home and away.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Kasimpasa in their previous outing. The Super Lig match ended in a draw 1-1. Can Bozdoğan got a match rating of 7.55 in that game, top player of the team. Bozdoğan scored one goal, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times.

The game before that, in the Super Lig, was lost at home, a 0-4 defeat against Giresunspor.

You'll want to know how Beşiktaş managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found one similar match resulting in zero away wins, zero draws and one home win.

Beşiktaş have scored 7 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league. Beşiktaş have conceded 11 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

This is what happened when the squads met earlier this season; Beşiktaş - Borussia 1-2.

Top Goalscorers

Borussia DortmundE. Håland
E. Håland
11 goals
BorussiaM. Reus
M. Reus
4 goals
BeşiktaşC. Larin
C. Larin
4 goals

Borussia Dortmund missing players

Beşiktaş missing players

Borussia Dortmund Beşiktaş
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 14   Played P   10 25
16 10   Won W   1 9
0 0   Drew D   3 4
9 4   Lost L   6 12
51 31   Scored S   8 34
38 20   Conceded C   18 40
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   90% 96%
92% 93%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   80% 84%
76% 71%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   40% 68%
48% 50%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   30% 28%
20% 29%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   20% 16%
64% 64%   BTTS BTTS   50% 48%
24% 29%   Clean Sheets C S   10% 28%
12% 7%   Failed to Score F T   50% 28%
 
4.9 4.5   Corners for (avg) C F   5.3 5.5
3.9 4.3   Corners against (avg) C A   4.3 4.2
1.8 1.4   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.6 2.1
3 1   Red cards R C   1 4
 
14.4 14.8   Shots (avg) S (   12.8 12.9
6.1 6.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.9 5.2
35% 38%   Goal Efficiency G E   16% 24%
 
11 9.8   Shots against (avg) S A   10.5 10
4.3 3.8   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   4.5 4.3

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Ajax 5 5 0 0 16 3 2 2 0 0 6 0 3 3 0 0 10 3 13 15
2 Sporting CP 5 3 0 2 12 8 3 2 0 1 8 6 2 1 0 1 4 2 4 9
3 Borussia Dortmund 5 2 0 3 5 11 2 1 0 1 2 3 3 1 0 2 3 8 -6 6
4 Beşiktaş 5 0 0 5 3 14 3 0 0 3 3 8 2 0 0 2 0 6 -11 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bayern München 14 11 1 2 45 15 7 6 0 1 23 5 7 5 1 1 22 10 30 34
2 Borussia Dortmund 14 10 0 4 35 22 8 7 0 1 23 12 6 3 0 3 12 10 13 30
3 Bayer Leverkusen 14 8 3 3 35 19 7 4 0 3 17 12 7 4 3 0 18 7 16 27
4 Hoffenheim 14 7 2 5 30 22 7 5 1 1 17 7 7 2 1 4 13 15 8 23
5 Union Berlin 14 6 5 3 22 20 8 5 2 1 12 8 6 1 3 2 10 12 2 23
6 Freiburg 13 6 4 3 19 13 6 3 2 1 10 6 7 3 2 2 9 7 6 22
7 Mainz 05 14 6 3 5 20 14 8 4 3 1 14 5 6 2 0 4 6 9 6 21
8 Wolfsburg 14 6 2 6 15 20 7 3 1 3 6 9 7 3 1 3 9 11 -5 20
9 Köln 14 4 7 3 23 23 7 4 3 0 17 9 7 0 4 3 6 14 0 19
10 Bochum 14 6 1 7 15 22 6 4 1 1 9 4 8 2 0 6 6 18 -7 19
11 RB Leipzig 14 5 3 6 25 18 7 5 0 2 21 9 7 0 3 4 4 9 7 18
12 Borussia M'gladbach 13 5 3 5 18 18 6 4 2 0 12 4 7 1 1 5 6 14 0 18
13 Eintracht Frankfurt 14 4 6 4 18 20 6 1 4 1 6 6 8 3 2 3 12 14 -2 18
14 Hertha BSC 13 4 2 7 13 27 6 2 2 2 7 7 7 2 0 5 6 20 -14 14
15 Stuttgart 13 3 4 6 18 23 7 3 1 3 14 11 6 0 3 3 4 12 -5 13
16 Augsburg 14 3 4 7 14 25 7 3 1 3 11 14 7 0 3 4 3 11 -11 13
17 Arminia Bielefeld 14 1 7 6 10 20 8 0 5 3 6 13 6 1 2 3 4 7 -10 10
18 Greuther Furth 14 0 1 13 12 46 6 0 1 5 6 15 8 0 0 8 6 31 -34 1
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Trabzonspor 15 12 3 0 31 11 7 5 2 0 15 6 8 7 1 0 16 5 20 39
2 Konyaspor 14 7 5 2 23 13 7 5 2 0 15 6 7 2 3 2 8 7 10 26
3 Hatayspor 14 8 2 4 23 14 7 5 1 1 15 6 7 3 1 3 8 8 9 26
4 Fenerbahce 14 7 3 4 20 17 6 3 2 1 10 7 8 4 1 3 10 10 3 24
5 Alanyaspor 15 7 3 5 20 23 7 4 1 2 14 10 8 3 2 3 6 13 -3 24
6 Galatasaray 15 6 5 4 21 19 7 4 1 2 10 7 8 2 4 2 11 12 2 23
7 Istanbul Basaksehir 14 7 1 6 20 16 8 5 1 2 12 6 6 2 0 4 8 10 4 22
8 Fatih Karagumruk 14 6 4 4 21 18 7 3 3 1 12 7 7 3 1 3 9 11 3 22
9 Beşiktaş 15 6 3 6 22 22 8 5 1 2 15 11 7 1 2 4 7 11 0 21
10 Adana Demirspor 15 5 5 5 20 20 7 3 2 2 9 5 8 2 3 3 11 15 0 20
11 Sivasspor 15 4 7 4 21 15 8 2 5 1 14 7 7 2 2 3 7 8 6 19
12 Antalyaspor 14 5 3 6 18 20 8 4 1 3 13 10 6 1 2 3 5 10 -2 18
13 Altay 15 5 3 7 20 23 7 3 1 3 9 9 8 2 2 4 11 14 -3 18
14 Gazisehir Gaziantep 14 5 3 6 17 21 7 5 2 0 13 4 7 0 1 6 4 17 -4 18
15 Giresunspor 14 4 4 6 12 12 7 2 2 3 5 6 7 2 2 3 7 6 0 16
16 Kayserispor 14 4 4 6 18 22 6 3 2 1 10 5 8 1 2 5 8 17 -4 16
17 Yeni Malatyaspor 14 4 1 9 12 23 8 2 1 5 9 16 6 2 0 4 3 7 -11 13
18 Goztepe 14 2 5 7 13 20 7 1 1 5 3 9 7 1 4 2 10 11 -7 11
19 Kasimpasa 15 2 5 8 14 22 8 2 3 3 11 11 7 0 2 5 3 11 -8 11
20 Rizespor 14 3 1 10 12 27 7 3 1 3 8 8 7 0 0 7 4 19 -15 10

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Read more about Champions League

The UEFA Champions League is the major international club football tournament in Europe. The competition begins already in late June and lasts for almost a year, ending with the final played in late May or early June. After several qualifying rounds the group stage is where the “true” Champions League begins for many viewers. Eight groups with four teams each battle through six rounds to qualify for the knock-out phase. Then a round of 16, quarterfinals and then semifinals needs to be won before a place in the final is secured.