Hoppenheim - Dortmund

A trip to the village

After a exciting first matchday and an international break Bundesliga goes into round 2.
Dortmund will travel to Sinnsheim, a little town, nay village, which is too small to be Bundesliga-worthy.
However, a certain Ditmar Hopp has pumped enough money to generate an artificial Bundesliga club in the middle of nowhere. But before I reach too far we better get to the sport. ;)

Dortmund's first match was very impressive and the 3 points were never really in danger.
If you think it'll be as easy against Hoffenheim as it was agaianst Hamburg, think again!

Line-Ups

Dortmund has a few question marks, because some players picked up some knocks.
Götze, Hummels and Kuba picked up knocks, but Götze and Hummels said on Wednesday that it would only be "minor". Also Jürgen Klopp said that it's not 100% sure whether Shinji Kagawa can play, who had a brilliant game against South Korea (as you can read here), he is maybe too tired because of the jet-lag.
Also Marcel Schmelzer is still not 100% fit and Neven Subotic and Lucas Barrios are definitely out.
So our team could more or less look like that:

But Probably it'll look more like that, anyway.

Hoppenheim

Hoppenheim is a team that can't dictate a game (which was easy to see vs Hanover and Windeck). They are a defensive minded, counter-attacking side.
They usually don't make many tactical errors, which is why Dortmund has to bring their passing to a very precise level. The village-team is playing in a 4-2-3-1 but tends to defend in a 4-3-3.
They have many strong, physical players, who play very rough. So I hope none of our players gets injured from one of the many fouls today.
They are good in the backwards-transmission, but lack a bit of consequence on the way to the goal. It takes too long until they have enough bodies to play a quick counter, so they are pretty harmless, even though they shouldn't be.
With Tom Starke they've got an excellent goalkeeper and I have a bad feeling that he will score big points in every fantasy game today.

Dortmund had problems to beat Hoppenheim in the past because of their destructive game, but I guess, that's the past.
Though the TSG was the only club we couldn't beat last season (which is of course the fault of Mr. Stark, the "referee"), and the only goal we managed to score was a beautiful free kick.
Sadly, I don't have any more time to write but you may enjoy the goal again. + Netradio.