Dortmund vs Zenit Preview

Match info:

Borussia Dortmund vs Zenit St Petersburg

Competition – Champions League (last 16)

Stadium – Signal Iduna Park

Date: 19th March 2014

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT+1

Zenit St Petersburg travel to Signal Iduna Park this Wednesday evening to face Borussia Dortmund with a mountain to climb after Dortmund won 4:2 in the opening leg.

Borussia Dortmund made it to this stage by winning group F with 4 wins and 2 losses.

Zenit St Petersburg finished 2nd in Group G behind Atletico Madrid – they qualified with just 1 win and 3 draws.


Recent form:

Borussia Dortmund have lost 2 of their last 7 while Zenit have lost 5 of their last 7.

Form

Head-to-head

These two sides have met just once recently and Dortmund came out on top.

History

The last meeting between these two sides finished 4:2.

Possible line-ups

Borussia Dortmund (4-5-1)

Weidenfeller
Piszczek
Papastathopoulos
Schmelzer
Friedrich
Reus
Şahin
Mkhitaryan
Kehl
Großkreutz
Lewandowski

Zenit St Petersburg (4-2-3-1)

Lodygin
Criscito
Lombaerts
Neto
Anyukov
Faizulin
Witsel
Arshavin
Shatov
Hulk
Rondón

Bookmakers make Borussia Dortmund strong favourites to come out on top in this match.

Odds: Dortmund (7/20) Draw (9/2) Zenit (17/2)Gamingtips Prediction – Dortmund 4:0 Zenit

Borussia Dortmund carved Zenit apart on multiple occasions on the first leg and it’s hard to imagine that Zenit will defend worse than that on the night.

Zenit’s biggest problem is they need to score 3 away goals without any reply from Dortmund, which is very hard to imagine even for the most optimistic fan.

Zenit come to Signal Iduna Park knowing the task ahead of them but also without fear – in the first leg they looked very shaky and gave Dortmund too much respect.

Zenit are on a horrendous run of form in all competitions losing 5 of their last 7 games.

Ultimately Dortmund should have more than enough quality however we may see a better performance Zenit, particularly defencively after a nightmare first leg and with the news that their new appointed boss is Andre Villas-Boas.

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