Borussia Dortmund vs. Valencia: CONFIRMED teams, match stats and LIVE blog!
Karim Adeyemi, Nico Schlotterbeck and Niklas Süle all made their Borussia Dortmund debuts in a friendly pre-season loss against Valencia on Monday.
As it happened!
Match stats
- This was the first ever meetings between these teams - friendly or otherwise.
- Youssoufa Moukoko, Marco Reus and summer signing Prince Aning are the Dortmund's leading scorers in pre-season so far with two apiece.
- Sebastien Haller was absent due to illness.
- Dortmund's record against Spanish opposition now reads, 10 wins, 11 draws and 14 defeats.
- Valencia's record against German teams from 32 games stands at nine wins, 10 draws and 13 defeats.
- Dortmund are the only German team new Valencia coach Gennaro Gattuso ever lost against in 11 games as a player; with AC Milan in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup semi-finals and the UEFA Champions League group stage two years later.
Teams
Dortmund: Kobel - Meunier (Passlack 46'), Hummels (Coulibaly 76'), Schlotterbeck (Süle 46'), Guerreiro - Bellingham (Brandt 46'), Dahoud (Bynoe-Gittens 46') - Hazard, Reus (c) (Kamara 76'), Adeyemi (Wolf 46') - Moukoko
Subs: Meyer, Morey, Aning
Out: Haller (ill), Özcan (knock), Reyna (unknown)
Coach: Edin Terzic
Valencia: Mamardashvili - T. Correia, Mosquera, Gabriel, Gaya (c) - Guillamon - Soler, Musah - Castillejo, Marco Andre, Guedes
Subs:
Out: -
Coach: Gennaro Gattuso
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