It's Europa League time and the hopeful contenders are Borussia Dortmund and Rangers

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Competition: Europe Europa League
Competition: Thu 17.February
Match begins: 17:45 (UTC)
Venue: Signal-Iduna-Park (81365 seats)

Borussia Dortmund and Rangers will play at least 180 minutes of football to decide who advances from this Europa League Knockout Round Play-offs battle. Get ready for the first 90 minutes!

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Rangers, who are travelling more than 1200 kilometers to play this game.

The hosts Borussia saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Bundesliga. That game was an away game at Union Berlin, so at least Borussia Dortmund are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Borussia Dortmund form and stats

Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the group stage.

Borussia Dortmund are steadily winning Bundesliga games and points here at Signal-Iduna-Park. 9 wins, 0 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 11 games.

Borussia enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Union Berlin's place. The match ended 3-0 with Reus (2) and Guerreiro scoring. Reus, a forward, was the best performer for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 8.22 (out of 10). Reus scored two goals and had 31 successful passes (of 35 total).

Before that game, the home loss against Bayer Leverkusen with the scoreline 2-5.

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 nine matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won nine, drew zero and lost zero.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Borussia as they have a new game in only three days, a Bundesliga match thankfully also at home. Borussia M'gladbach are visiting.

With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Borussia Dortmund defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Rangers form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Olympique Lyonnais, Sparta Praha, Alashkert and Brøndby in order to reach knockout round play-offs of Europa League. They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the 8th finals, when Slavia Praha drew the shortest straw.

Total Europa League statistics for Rangers: 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Hibernian.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Premiership trip to Dundee United.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Borussia DortmundE. Håland
E. Håland
16 goals
RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
11 goals
Borussia DortmundM. Reus
M. Reus
7 goals

Borussia Dortmund missing players

Rangers missing players

Borussia Dortmund Rangers
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   11 25
15 10   Won W   6 17
1 0   Drew D   4 6
9 3   Lost L   1 2
55 34   Scored S   23 55
39 17   Conceded C   12 20
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
92% 92%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   91% 88%
80% 77%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   55% 48%
56% 54%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   27% 32%
32% 38%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   18% 16%
68% 62%   BTTS BTTS   64% 44%
24% 38%   Clean Sheets C S   27% 52%
8% 0%   Failed to Score F T   9% 4%
 
5.6 5.3   Corners for (avg) C F   5.5 6.6
3.9 4   Corners against (avg) C A   5.6 4.1
1.6 1.4   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.9 1.6
3 1   Red cards R C   1 1
 
14.3 15.8   Shots (avg) S (   16.1 18.8
5.4 5.4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   6.1 7.1
41% 49%   Goal Efficiency G E   34% 31%
 
10.8 8.8   Shots against (avg) S A   8.2 6.9
4.4 3.6   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3.1 2.7

  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 22 17 1 4 70 25 11 9 0 2 33 10 11 8 1 2 37 15 45 52
2 Borussia Dortmund 22 15 1 6 57 36 11 9 0 2 33 18 11 6 1 4 24 18 21 46
3 Bayer Leverkusen 22 12 5 5 58 36 11 6 2 3 30 19 11 6 3 2 28 17 22 41
4 RB Leipzig 22 10 4 8 43 27 12 9 0 3 34 14 10 1 4 5 9 13 16 34
5 Hoffenheim 22 10 4 8 43 34 11 7 2 2 25 12 11 3 2 6 18 22 9 34
6 Freiburg 22 9 7 6 34 25 11 5 4 2 18 12 11 4 3 4 16 13 9 34
7 Union Berlin 22 9 7 6 29 30 11 6 3 2 14 12 11 3 4 4 15 18 -1 34
8 Köln 22 8 8 6 34 37 11 6 3 2 19 15 11 2 5 4 15 22 -3 32
9 Mainz 05 22 9 4 9 31 24 11 7 3 1 21 5 11 2 1 8 10 19 7 31
10 Eintracht Frankfurt 22 8 7 7 33 34 11 3 4 4 14 15 11 5 3 3 19 19 -1 31
11 Bochum 22 8 4 10 24 32 11 6 3 2 17 10 11 2 1 8 7 22 -8 28
12 Wolfsburg 22 8 3 11 23 33 11 4 2 5 12 15 11 4 1 6 11 18 -10 27
13 Borussia M'gladbach 22 7 5 10 30 40 11 5 2 4 19 19 11 2 3 6 11 21 -10 26
14 Hertha BSC 22 6 5 11 24 45 11 4 3 4 15 17 11 2 2 7 9 28 -21 23
15 Arminia Bielefeld 22 4 10 8 21 29 11 1 7 3 11 16 11 3 3 5 10 13 -8 22
16 Augsburg 22 5 7 10 24 38 10 4 3 3 15 16 12 1 4 7 9 22 -14 22
17 Stuttgart 22 4 6 12 26 42 11 3 2 6 18 23 11 1 4 6 8 19 -16 18
18 Greuther Furth 22 3 4 15 20 57 11 3 3 5 11 17 11 0 1 10 9 40 -37 13

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Read more about Europa League

The UEFA Europa League, abbreviated as UEL and commonly referred to as just the Europa League, is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA. It is the second-tier competition for football clubs in Europa, beneath the UEFA Champions League in value and importance. Teams qualify through their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Some teams qualify from the Champions League; more precisely the teams who are knocked out in the playoff qualifying round and the third-place finishers of the group stage. The winner of the Europa League qualifies for the Champions League in their next competitive season.