Borussia Dortmund - Fortuna Düsseldorf

Dortmund is back in business after getting very bad into the new season. They are on their known level and collected win after win. And after the win against Mainz on Saturday they overcome their rival Schalke and Frankfurt. They are 9 points behind Bayern München but sit on second place now. If all go their way today they should win this one very easy and many expect a win with a huge goal margin but take a look at the schedule. They want be very happy if they take the lead and also if they are up 2-0 they stop pushing as the next match is very important for them. In this case they sit back and play as a champion and bring this result home. It is almost the same as they did against Greuther Fürth where they lead at half time 3-1. And with Bayern München ahead and in their mind, they do this for sure. Coach Klopp has some problems on the double six as the players are almost all injured. As I read Gündogan and Kehl are out while Bender plays with broken nose and the last available man beside Bender is Leitner. The others are ready but maybe some rotation here as well to rest some. After long injury Kuba played in the past always and maybe gets some rest here, he will be replaced by Großkreutz.

Düsseldorf won their first home match this season last weekend and they want to go on now but with huge problems as the injury list shows. They miss plenty of their defensive players like Bruno Soares, Malezas and Cha but this is not enough because two more got injured with Levels and Langeneke against Hamburg. This means that coach Meier has to build up almost a new defensive row. At beginning this was their biggest advantage that the defensive worked very well and they are very hard to beat there but in the past with the problems they conceded more and again some more out and changes again today. Sure they are huge underdog here but let's see what their counter attacks are able to bring for them above all Kruse is in good shape and can hurt Dortmund a bit with his fast play. 

All in all under normal things this should be a clear one for Dortmund but I mentioned it already that they are more focused on the match against Bayern München on Saturday evening and for this they play for sure not full power and saving some energie here for further jobs. As the HC is set very high, maybe some in running are good if Düsseldorf can keep the nil some time.