Four months and 21 days after facing each other in the last Champions League final, Real Madrid y Borussia Dortmund They are at the beginning of the new format of the competition. The yellows came out of that match sore, in which they had many chances to take the lead, but in the end what almost always happened: Real Madrid raised their fifteenth “orejona”.
Many things have changed since then, especially for the Germans, who no longer have Edin Terzic on the bench The man who led them to be runners-up in Europe when they were not in any pool, with whom they were also champions of the German Cup and seconds in the Bundesliga bordering on the title, he asked to break his contract last summer. “I thought about it for a long time, although I always had this basic feeling that now that the club is realigning, I think it’s time for a new man in the band to accompany and lead the whole thing,” said the former Dortmund coach in his farewell statement.
His replacement is an old acquaintance of Real Madrid, Nuri Sahinalthough his time as a Bernabéu footballer was something more than discreet. After spending a few months as a member of the Borussia coaching staff, he is now the coach of a team that is the leader of the new Championswith two goals in the first two games. He scored three against Bruges on the first day and seven on the second against Celtic to be the first team to reach ten goals in this Champions League.
«Borussia has changed its coach and also some players. They maintain the idea of intense football, They play well and with good individuality. “They are a demanding opponent, they recently played the Champions League final against us and it is for a reason,” said Ancelotti. The whites have played fifteen times in their history with Dortmund and the last three meetings are victories for Real Madrid. Two in the group stage of the 2018 Champions League and the last time, that of Wembley on June 1.
