Borussia Dortmund will be hunting for revenge tomorrow when they face Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga.
The Die Schwarzgelben, in their first round game against Bremen suffered a humiliating 3-2 home defeat to the River Islanders who were just returning to Bundesliga.
Dortmund will be eager to keep the table leaders Bayern in check, but Bremen go into this game hiked following their back to back victories.
Those win came against Wolfsburg and Stuttgart. The other motivator is finding a first home win against Dortmund in ten years.
Bremen’s Nicolas Fullkrug is the leading Top scorer with 13 goals in all competitions and he is expected to spearhead the attack alongside Marvin Ducksch who that shut d the game off at Stuttgart.
Bremen’s manager Ole Werner has no major injury worries except center back who is also the club’s skipper Marco Fried.
Dortmund on the other hand will be aiming to stretch their league winning streak to four.
Dortmund skipper Marco Reus loves their saturday opponents. He has scored 14 goals against them, the most any Bundesliga player has scored against Bremen.
Dortmund will miss the services of Karim Adyemi through suspension as well as Thomas Meunier and ,Mateu Morey who are injured.
Bremen line up ;Pavlenka, Pieper, Veljkovic, Stark, Welser, Bittencourt, Grob,Jung,Stage, Fullkrug, Ducksch.
Dortmund line up;- Kobel, Ryerson,Sule, Schlotterbeck,Guerrero,Can, Bellingham, Reus, Brandt, Reyna, Haller.
Summary of the fixtures;
Friday 10th February
Shalke vs Wolfsburg,
Saturday 11th February.
Bayern vs Bochum
Hoffenheim vs Leverkusen
Mainz vs Augusburg.
W.Bremen vs B.Dortmund.
RB Leipzig vs Union B.
Sunday 12th February,
Hertha B. vs M’gladbach.
Koln vs Frankfurt.
