Borussia Dortmund vs Valencia. Prediction and Preview. Probable Lineups, Team News, Stats and more
Borussia Dortmund will host Valencia CF at the Stadion Schnabelholz. The match will take place on July 18, beginning at 22:30 IST.
Borussia Dortmund are actively preparing for the new Bundesliga season and will play their fourth friendly in 13 days. The Bumblebees are set to face Valencia CF. The encounter between the German and Spanish clubs will take place on 18 July at the Cashpoint Arena in Altach, Austria.
Parimatchnews will tell you everything you need to know ahead of the upcoming match.
Borussia Dortmund News & Current Form:
A new era is about to begin for Borussia Dortmund. After last season, the club said goodbye to Erling Haaland: the Norwegian was responsible for a quarter of the club’s goals in the previous Bundesliga campaign, but has chosen Manchester City to continue his career. While previous sales were immediately solvable without any loss of quality, the Norwegian’s departure will be more problematic because with this man in the attack, Dortmund could always rely on one or two goals, but now they will have to cope without him.
Bayern, meanwhile, сontinue their hegemony in the Bundesliga. Last season, the Bumblebees were once again the pale shadow of the Munich side. They lost the German Super Cup and finished second in the table. The club also failed to show anything in the Europa League, crashing out in the 1/16 finals.
At the end of the year, the team got a new head coach. In the place of Marco Rose, Edin Terzic, ex technical director and interim coach, is now at the wheel. He will have to solve a number of existing problems, including understanding how the Black and Yellows will now play without the Norwegian superstar.
Thanks to the work of the selection office, however, there is peace of mind behind Dortmund. The club do know how to look for strikers with high growth potential, who they then sell for big sums of money: thus, Aubameyang came in to replace Robert Lewandowski, Paco Alcacer replaced Pierre-Emerick, then there was Haaland.
So now, after the departure of another star, Borussia have acquired two great forwards at once: Sebastian Haller from Ajax and Karim Adeyemi from RB Salzburg. The former won the Eredivisie scoring race (21 goals) as well as scoring 11 goals in UCL, and the latter became the top striker in the Austrian Bundesliga (19 goals).
These youngsters could be sold for twice as much in a year if their performance goes well. The €20m purchase of 22-year-old Nico Schlotterbeck from Freiburg is also worth mentioning, as is the signing of free agent Süle from Bayern.
The new strikers have not played a single game for Borussia yet, but they will certainly make their debut for the club in the game against the Bats. Although even without them, Dortmund look very potent offensively, scoring 10 goals in three friendlies. Yes, the opponents were not even Bundesliga level, but given that head coach Terzic has used a maximally mixed squad with a lot of young players, the result is impressive.
Borussia will come out against Valencia with a nearly optimal line-up, so we can expect brilliant football and high scoring performance.
Valencia News & Current Form:
Valencia used to terrify Europe and play in the Champions League finals, but now it is just a pleasant memory for veteran fans of the club. Talking about present moment: last season was relatively good for the Batsmen. The team finished ninth in the La Liga table. However, it is still far away from the Eurocup zone.
Besides, Valencia reached the Spanish Cup final, where they lost there in a penalty shoot-out to Real Betis.
The most recent results before the pause were a 0-3 defeat at the hands of Betis, a 1-1 draw at Espanyol and a 2-0 victory over Celta.
It should be noted that Gennaro Gattuso arrived to the team in the summer to replace Jose Bordalas as head coach. The Italian coach is known for his tough character and has had experience at AC Milan and Napoli.
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What to expect from the Spaniards in the new season remains a mystery, but the club has a good core of young and promising players in general. Average age of squad: 24.5 years. But there is plenty of experience too, with José Gayà, Jasper Cillessen and Gabriel Paulista all doing well in helping youngsters.
The Spanish club have not played a single friendly match in this offseason, which means that we should not expect their best football in the upcoming match.
Borussia Dortmund pre-season form guide: W-W-W
Valencia pre-season form guide: –
Borussia Dortmund vs Valencia Head-To-Head Record:
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Borussia Dortmund vs Valencia Predicted XI:
Borussia Dortmund possible starting lineup: Kobel; Meunier, Hummels, Sule, Guerreiro; Bellingham, Dahoud, Brandt; Adeyemi, Haller, Malen.
Valencia possible starting lineup: Cillessen; Correia, Paulista, Guillamon, Gaya; Soler, Racic, Musah; Guedes, Duro, Castillejo.
Statistical preview of the match Borussia Dortmund vs Valencia:
- Borussia Dortmund are victorious in their last 3 matches.
- Valencia are unbeaten in 7 of their last 8 games.
- In the last 5 games, Borussia Dortmund concede an average of 0.60 goals per game and score an average of 3.00 goals per game.
- In the last 5 games, Valencia are conceding an average of 1.00 goals per game and scoring an average of 0.80 goals per game.
- Borussia Dortmund have scored in their last 6 games, while Valencia have managed to net at least one in their last 8 games.
What has been said before the match:
Team leader Marco Reus is a little concerned about the busy schedule, but full of optimism:
“Only today we have the first joint training session with all the players on the pitch. That already says a lot. We’re still at the beginning, but we also know that we’ll be playing our first competitive match in just under two weeks. It’s a tough schedule, but we’re experienced enough and the quality is there. Still, it’s important that we do a lot of training sessions together, because the chemistry may not be there yet.”
One of the team’s stars, young prospect Hugo Guillamón, who has only just recovered from injury, shared some thoughts on pre-season:
“We are very excited. A new coach is coming in who is going to bring us many good things. Both the whole team and I really want to have a good season, and for Valencia CF to be where the club deserve to be.”
“When there is a change of coach there are new ideas and new concepts, and the team must grasp them as soon as possible, that is what the preseason is for, in order to start the season off on the right foot. Preseason is useful to help us start competing and to pick up the pace. Playing against rivals of this level will surely help us.”
Borussia Dortmund vs Valencia Prediction:
Borussia as a club are now much stronger than Valencia as a whole. The once Spanish giants have fallen on hard times and have become average, even in their own league. Expecting Gennaro Gattuso’s side to suddenly show their best football ever in a match against Dortmund is strange. The new head coach is a great motivator, but his teams have often faltered in terms of the performance itself. And considering that Valencia conceded the most goals last season in the top 10 and on par with the underdogs (53 goals), we should expect a lot of goals in the upcoming encounter.
Borussia, on the other hand, have been steadily gaining form in friendlies and the departure of Rosé and Haaland does not seem to have hit them hard. It’s fair to say that the Bumblebees look more interesting.
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Parimatch News staff prediction: