Man City vs Dortmund Live Match: UCL 2022 live score and updates.Man City vs Dortmund, Champions League Live Score Updates: Manchester City’s new forward Erling Haaland can make all the difference in their quest for an elusive Champions League title, midfielder Ilkay Gundogan said on Tuesday as the duo prepares to meet their former club Borussia Dortmund. Haaland has hit the ground running since joining City in the close season with 12 goals in all competitions so far, including two on his European debut for City as they beat Sevilla 4-0 in their first game to sit top of Group G.
City have never won Europe’s elite club competition and were knocked out by eventual champions Real Madrid at the semi-final stage last season, having finished runners-up to Chelsea in the 2020-21 campaign.
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Haaland has scored a goal every 54 minutes in his Champions League career, across RB Salzburg, Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City. Unreal stat.
Dortmund, meanwhile, are coming into this match after defeating Copenhagen in teir last European outing. A squad capable of producing upsets, the black and yellow army are nothing to scoff at.
The last European matchday that City had, they blew away Sevilla 0-4 with Erling Haaland scoring a brace. Is that the fate which awaits Dortmund tonight?
Since missing that sitter in the Community Shield, Erling Haaland has scored or assisted in every game he's played. 🤖
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Manchester City: Ederson, Stones, Akanji, Ake, Joao Cancelo, De Bruyne, Rodri, Gundogan, Mahrez, Haaland, Grealish.
Subs: Dias, Phillips, Ortega, Alvarez, Bernardo Silva, Gomez, Carson, Foden, Palmer, Lewis, Wilson-Esbrand.
Borussia Dortmund: Meyer, Meunier, Sule, Hummels, Guerreiro, Ozcan, Can, Bellingham, Reus, Modeste, Reyna.
Subs: Schlotterbeck, Hazard, Wolf, Moukoko, Brandt, Malen, Adeyemi, Passlack, Rothe, Unbehaun, Coulibaly.
Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)
Towering. That’s the first word that flashes through the mind when one sees Erling Haaland line up for his team on the football pitch. Standing next to his teammates, professional athletes who are themselves giants in the land of mortals, Haaland’s almost mythical presence casts an aura that mesmerizes the world. (READ MORE)
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Borussia Dortmund centre-half Nico Schlotterbeck believes he knows how to stop Erling Haaland from scoring. Schlotterbeck, who prevented Haaland from finding the net in Freiburg’s 2-1 win over Dortmund in the Bundesliga in 2021, said,“In that game (Freiburg's 2-1 win over Dortmund), I realised how good I can be,” Schlotterbeck said in an interview with Kicker, as translated and relayed by Sport Witness. “I know how to stop Erling Haaland. We have to stop them (Manchester City) as a whole, Erling is the least of our problems," the German added to Sport1.
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jude Bellingham has admitted that he is not sure how the Bundesliga club stop their former star striker Erling Haaland. 'He is a player with lot of quality and a lot of physical attributes that make him so dangerous. It’s not an individual task. It is something the team has to do collectively. If we stick together and try to do the right things it can be possible.'
In his first Champions League game for City, Haaland scored twice in a 4-0 win at Sevilla last week to make it 25 goals in 20 games in the competition.
Manchester City’s free-scoring forward Erling Haaland faces his former team Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League on Wednesday. The striker left Dortmund in the offseason to join Manchester City, the team he supported as a child after being born in England, and he has started the Premier League in explosive fashion, scoring 10 goals in six games. Stay tuned for live updates