“Schwabe” sold the skin of the European champion dearly, but now they have another difficult task waiting for them

STUTTGART welcomes Borussia Dortmund in the penultimate match of the fourth round of the German Bundesliga. The match will be played at the “Gottlieb Daimler” stadium from 17:30.

Schwab will be looking for a second win in the league, having beaten Borussia Monchengladbach’s namesake in the last round before suffering an honorable defeat to European champions Real Madrid in the first round of the Champions League during the week.

Stuttgart dominated in possession of the ball and was an equal opponent until ten minutes before the end, when Luka Modrić and the new Brazilian sensation Endrik entered the scene.

At the end, the “Reds” left the “Santiago Bernabeu” with raised foreheads, and coach Sebastijan Henese praised his players after the game despite the defeat against the best team in Europe.

However, it seems that participation in the Champions League will take its toll, since the “Squabs”, at least at the beginning of the Bundesliga, are far from the form that graced them last season. They collected only four out of a possible nine points. It is not too early for such an analysis because they spilled points in both games they did not win. Against Freiburg on the side, they squandered the initial lead and lost 3:1, while against Mainz at home they led 2:0 and 3:2 and ended up without two points.

By the way, they opened the season with a penalty shootout loss to Leverkusen in the German Supercup.

Stuttgart may have won just once in their last three Bundesliga matches, but they are unbeaten in their last 13 league games at home. They have won 14, drawn seven and lost just one of their last 22 home matches.

Unlike Stuttgart, Dortmund started the season well, which was perhaps not expected after the change on the bench. Nuri Sahin brought a new style of play to “Westfalen” and Borussia is under the leadership of his former player without defeat in the first five games and with only one draw.

That style of mine implies a fairly high defense, which resulted in two games in which they did not concede a goal. That is more than in the last eight championships under Edin Terzić on the bench.

In four victories, Dortmund scored 13 goals and conceded only three goals. The first round of the Champions League resulted in an easy 3:0 victory against Bruges, but the Belgians held on until the 76th minute. He practically decided the match Jaime Bajno-Gitens with two goals that he scored in a space of ten minutes, as soon as he entered the game.

Gittens has scored four goals in a total of just over 184 minutes on the pitch this season and is showing incredible progress in the early days of his senior career.

The third goal for the “yellow and black” was scored in stoppage time by Seru Žirasi, the recent Stuttgart striker who finished last season as the second top scorer in the Bundesliga behind Harry Kane.

Dortmund lost twice and drew once in the last three away league matches, but before that they tied four away wins.

Although Stuttgart’s loss to Real Madrid was not an unexpected result, it was the third time this season that they have conceded three or more goals in a match.

In addition, Dortmund under Sahin plays efficiently in attack and solid in defense, which with a dose of self-confidence after the victory over Brugge should be enough for them to remain undefeated.

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