The team won Borussia Dortmund German, runner-up in the Champions League last season, hosts Club Brugge Belgium, 3-0, at the Jan Breydel Stadium in Belgium, in the first round of the competition. Champions League For the current season 2024-2025.
Club Brugge vs Borussia Dortmund
Substitute Jimmy Beno Gittens scored Borussia Dortmund’s first and second goals in the 76th and 86th minutes, while Serhou Guirassy added the third goal in the 95th minute of the match with a penalty kick.
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Borussia Dortmund collected the first three points in the group to ensure the competition to qualify for the knockout stages and repeat last season’s surprise.
The formation of Borussia Dortmund is as follows:
Goalkeeper: Gregor Kobel.
Defense: Ramy Bensebaini, Niklas Sule, Nico Schlotterbeck, Julian Ryerson.
Midfielders: Donyell Malen, Marcel Sabitzer, Julian Brandt, Pascal Gross.
Attack: Karim Adeyemi.
While the formation of the Belgian Club Brugge team was as follows:
Goalkeeper: Mignolet.
Defense: Joaquin Cees, Brandon Michel, Joel Ordonez, Maxime De Kuyper.
Midfielders: Hugo Vetelsen, Rafael Onyedika, Andreas Skov Olsen, Hans Vanaken.
Attack: Gustav Nelson.
Borussia Dortmund lost the Champions League final last season to Real Madrid, which won the Champions League title by defeating its German counterpart 2-0.
Dortmund signed several players, most notably Guinean strikers Serhou Guirassy, Maximilian Bayer and Pascal Gross, in addition to international centre-back Waldemar Anton.
Dortmund is in second place in the German league table with 7 points, collected from two wins and a draw in the first three rounds.