Sevilla will host Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday for the round of 12 of the UEFA Champions League at Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan (20:00 GMT).
Sevilla FC will try to enforce their status as reigning European champions (Europa League) against Borussia Dortmund eager to return to the top of European football. Seville is really good at the moment. Club Che scored a good shot in the league, and in the Cup they finished with Barcelona, winning 2-0. Sevilla haven’t conceded a goal in a long time.
Borussia, as you know, has a lot of problems. The record is a little less glowing for Borussia Dortmund players. They had certainly started their year 2021 very well with two victories over direct opponents in the Bundesliga. They had disposed of Wolfsburg (2-0), then had the scalp of RB Leipzig (3-1). But the following weeks saw them lose to Leverkusen (1-2) and then to other Borussia, Mönchengladbach (2-4).
I think in the fall, when Favre was still around, I would have given Borussia a slight advantage, but now Sevilla are leaving a small favorite. Yet Borussia are a young team, the backbone is made up of young players, talented but still young. Seville has a more solid and impressive formation. It was not for nothing that Sevilla won the Europa League last season, because they knew how to play for the result.
For this first leg, given that Sevilla have been playing very impressively defensively lately, I hardly consider this game to be very effective. Maybe Sevilla in the first game will focus on not conceding. Sooner or later Sevilla will concede, but in the Champions League right now the Spaniards have to focus on defense. To move the solution of all problems to the second game in Dortmund. Seville can do it all.
It would be possible to play a total of less than 2.5 goals for 1.97, but I would limit myself to playing either in singles or pushing somewhere in the express total less than 3 for 1.55 in 1xBet. It seems to me that more than three goals will not be scored in this game. Sevilla are a very pragmatic side, if they don’t allow Dortmund to get away, and Borussia aren’t doing very well now, then it’s hardly worth counting on a lot of goals.