Erling Haaland is once again missing for Borussia Dortmund as they seek revenge against Sebastien Haller’s Ajax in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday (kick-off: 9pm CET).

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A hip problem has seen Haaland miss two Bundesliga games and a DFB Cup tie since Dortmund’s trip to Amsterdam which saw them beaten on Matchday 3. However, BVB have had little trouble without the UEFA Men’s Forward of the Year, winning all three and scoring eight goals in the process. Thorgan Hazard has got three of the last four of those goals as he returns to full fitness following an ankle injury, and starts. Steffen Tigges - who came off the bench to score Dortmund's second goal against Cologne at the weekend - leads the line, with Dutchman Donyell Malen again among the subtitutes. Thomas Meunier takes up a position on the right-hand side of the back three as head coach Marco Rose bids to preserve Dortmund's 100 percent home record in all competitions this season.

Ajax are currently top of Group C, three points ahead of BVB in second, thanks to the Champions League’s six-goal top scorer, former Eintracht Frankfurt striker Haller. It’s 13 in all competitions for the Frenchman this season as the Dutch champions have blasted their way to the top of the Eredivisie, scoring 37 times and conceding only two in 11 league games. But the Amsterdam club were held to a goalless draw on Saturday by strugglers Heracles, cutting their lead over PSV Eindhoven to only two points. Goalkeeper Andre Onana has just now resumed training following a lengthy ban, while veteran Maarten Stekelenburg is still injured, so 37-year-old Remko Pasveer has been first choice in goal for former Bayern Munich reserves coach Erik ten Hag. Right-back Noussair Mazraoui missed the weekend through illness, but is passed fit to start. The only other former Bundesliga player in this Ajax squad is one-time Werder Bremen midfielder Davy Klaassen.

Watch: Dortmund got the better of Cologne at the weekend

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• Jude Bellingham has one goal and two assists in three Champions League matches this season
• Malen started out in the Ajax academy before leaving for Arsenal at the age of 16. He returned to the Netherlands and netted 55 goals in 116 appearances for PSV before moving to Germany this summer.
• A UEFA Youth League winner as coach of Red Bull Salzburg with nine wins out of nine, Rose will oversee his 12th Champions League fixture with his current record reading W4, D2, L5.
• Ajax pair Klaassen (Bremen, 2018–20) and Haller (Frankfurt 2017–19) previously played in the Bundesliga. Haller was a teammate of Dortmund’s Marius Wolf in Frankfurt during the 2017/18 season.
• Ajax have lost on four of their last six trips to Germany. That includes a 1-0 defeat to Dortmund in September 2012, when Robert Lewandowski got a late winner a Champions League group-stage clash. BVB topped their group that season and made it all the way to the final.
• Ajax coach Ten Hag was head coach of Bayern’s second team between 2013 and 2015.

CONFIRMED line-ups

Dortmund: Kobel - Meunier, Hummels, Akanji - Wolf, Witsel, Bellingham, Hazard - Brandt, Reus (c) - Tigges
Subs: Hitz, Zagadou, Moukoko, Reinier, Malen, Passlack, Pongracic, Knauff, Raschl
Out: Can (muscular), Dahoud (knee), Guerreiro (muscular), Haaland (hip), Morey (knee), Reyna (thigh), Schmelzer (knee), Schulz (muscular)
Coach: Marco Rose

Ajax: Pasveer - Mazraoui, Timber, Martinez, Blind - Alvarez, Gravenberch - Antony, Berghuis, Tadic (c) - Haller
Subs: Gorter, Setford, Schuurs, Klaassen, Neres, Pereira, Rensch, Labyad, Kudus, Taylor, Daramy, Tagliafico
Out: Klaiber (knee), Onana (suspended), Stekelenburg (groin)
Coach: Erik ten Hag