Watch Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea: Live Stream Prediction and Preview

Watch Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea: Live Stream Prediction and Preview 

 

 

Borussia Dortmund host Premier League club Chelsea at the Westfalenstadion on Wednesday night in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League round of 16 ties. Let's look ahead to the clash with our Opta-powered previews and predictions.

Match Details:

Opponent: Borussia Dortmund vs. Chelsea

TV: CBS, TUDN

Date: Wed, Feb. 15

Time: 3:00 PM ET

Sports: Soccer

League: UEFA Champions League | Round of 16

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Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea: The quick shots: 

 

 

 

Supercomputer Opta predicts Borussia Dortmund to be the most likely winner of this match, with home advantage key.

Graham Potter is set to become the second England manager to win a UEFA Champions League match away to Germany. Borussia Dortmund comes into this game on a six-game winning streak, the same number of games Chelsea has won in the past four months.

Match preview: 

 

 

Wednesday's UEFA Champions League match between Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea will be the first between the sides.

 

The Bundesliga club doesn't have the best recent record against English sides in Europe, as BVB have failed to win any of their last 10 games against Premier League opponents, losing eight and drawing two. Their last competitive win against an English club was in March 2016, when they defeated Tottenham Hotspur in London in the UEFA Europa League (2-1). Both goals that day were scored by current Chelsea striker Pierre-Emerick. aubameyang.

 

Chelsea is hoping for more success than their last European trip to Germany, where they lost 4-1 to Bayern Munich in August 2020 during Frank Lampard's tenure as manager. Current Chelsea manager Graham Potter will be looking to become the second England manager to win away to German sides at the UCL, emulating the feat of Sir Bobby Robson (who did it twice). Potter has fared well in the Champions League for the Blues, with the former Brighton boss unbeaten in five matches in the competition and winning each of his last four. If Chelsea wins this game, they will become the first England manager to win five consecutive UCL games. It will be a tough task for Chelsea and Potter as Borussia Dortmund have lost just four of their last 21 Champions League home games (W10, D7, and L4), although three of those defeats have come against English opposition, two defeats against Spurs (2-1 in 2017-18 and 1-0 in 2018-19) and one against Man City (2-1 in 2020-21). recent form 

 

 

Borussia Dortmund is in great shape. The German side has won all six of their competitive matches since football resumed after the World Cup, with five Bundesliga victories and one DFB Pokal win against Bochum. This is his best hitting streak since 10 games between April and August 2021.

 

After the 2022 FIFA World Cup, BVB shared goals across the squad, with no less than 10 different goalscorers in those six games: Giovanni Reyna (three), Nico Schlotterbeck (two), Karim Adeyemi (two), Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (two), Julian Brandt (two), Emre Can, Marco Reus, Julian Ryerson, Jude Bellingham, and Sébastien Haller entered the standings. Since Graham Potter took over from Thomas Tuchel at Chelsea in mid-September, the Blues have won just a third of their 23 competitive games (nine). They are currently unbeaten in four consecutive matches in all competitions in which they have conceded just one goal, but the last three have been draws (0-0 vs. Liverpool and Fulham and 1-1 vs. West Ham at the weekend). Since Chelsea's last UEFA Champions League game, a 2-1 home win against Dinamo Zagreb, Potter's side have won just two of their 12 competitive games, losing three times as many games (six) and drawing four. No Chelsea player has scored more than once for the club so far in 2023, with his four competitive goals in eight games courtesy of Kai Havertz, João Félix, Kalidou Koulibaly, and Raheem Sterling. In the Champions League of 2022-23, Chelsea passed the group and in front of the Italian giants Milan, Red Bull Salzburg, and Dinamo Zagreb, with their only defeat arriving in the opening match in the Croatian capital.

 

Borussia Dortmund qualified for the 16 round by ending up in second place behind Manchester City in the G. Their tally of nine points in the group stage was the lowest of any team to qualify for the round of 16, as they finished ahead of Sevilla and FC Copenhagen. Their only defeat in the group came against Man City at the Etihad Stadium, in a match, they led until the 80th minute before goals from John Stones and former striker Erling Haaland turned the match around. Players to watch: 

 

 

Borussia Dortmund: Jude Bellingham 

He may still be only 19, but Jude Bellingham is a key figure in Edin Terzic's BVB. Despite his teenage years, he was named club captain in the summer and has the ability to control the pace of the game. Across all competitions in 2022-23, Bellingham has been involved in 135 different open runs of play resulting in a BVB strike. Surprisingly, Bellingham tops the "shot attempt" and "cumulative odds" categories in the metric, showing how integral he is in building the game, but also prominent in showing up and being at the end of chances. He is truly a midfielder who does it all.

 

Bellingham is Dortmund's top scorer in all competitions this season (10 goals), while only Raphaël Guerreiro (seven) has more assists than the England midfielder (six). The former Birmingham City player has also had the most completions in the opposition half in all of Borussia Dortmund's competitive matches in 2022-23 (683).

Chelsea: Enzo Fernández: 

 

 

If there's one player Chelsea could turn to to keep Bellingham at bay, it's perhaps 2022 World Cup winner Enzo Fernandez.

 

Having signed with Benfica in January for just under £107m, the midfielder has impressed in his Premier League outings with Chelsea so far. In his two appearances against Fulham and West Ham, Fernández made the most tackles (nine), and interceptions (four) and won possessions for the Blues (17) more often than any other player, completing 88 % of his 171 passes.

 

 

Fernández was an integral part of the Benfica squad that won Group H ahead of Paris Saint-Germain in the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League group stage and Chelsea are hoping he will make an equally positive impact for them in the round of 16. of the competition. . Borussia Dortmund vs Chelsea prediction: 

 

 

Supercomputer Opta is expecting a tight fixture in Germany on Wednesday night but gives Borussia Dortmund a slim lead (38.7%) over Chelsea (34.4%).

 

Both teams are ranked outsiders for the UEFA Champions League title this season, with Dortmund having the seventh-highest chance of winning the competition at 4.25% and Chelsea just below as the ninth seed (3, 37%). Bayern Munich is ranked as the big favorite by the supercomputer (25.87%), ahead of Manchester City (18.87%), Serie A leaders, Napoli (10.76%), Real Madrid, holders of the UCL (7.22%) and Liverpool (6.51%). 

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