UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Olimpico - Rome Tuesday 20 October 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) SS Lazio Group F - Matchday 1 Borussia Dortmund Last updated 29/10/2020 15:33CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 5 1 SS Lazio - Borussia Dortmund Tuesday 20 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background Lazio are in the UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time in 13 years and begin life in Group F at home to experienced contenders Borussia Dortmund. • While the Italian club last featured at this stage in 2007/08, Dortmund are embarking on their fifth successive UEFA Champions League campaign. Previous meetings • The sides' paths have crossed only once before, Dortmund running out 2-1 aggregate winners in the 1994/95 UEFA Cup quarter-finals. Dortmund players scored all three goals in the tie, Steffen Freund putting through his own net in Rome to give Lazio a first-leg win before a Stéphane Chapuisat penalty and ex-Lazio striker Karl-Heinz Riedle's 90th- minute winner in Germany took BVB through. Form guide Lazio • This is Lazio's sixth UEFA Champions League campaign. On their most recent appearance, in 2007/08, they finished fourth in their section having picked up only five points from six games. Their previous appearances in the competition all came between 1999 and 2004. • Lazio's record in the initial group stage is W12 D7 L11. • A 2-1 home win against Germany's Werder Bremen on 6 November 2007 is Lazio's sole win in their last 11 UEFA Champions League matches, group stage to final (D4 L6). • Lazio's sole UEFA Champions League tie since 2007 is a play-off defeat by another German club, Bayer Leverkusen, in 2015/16 (1-0 h, 0-3 a). • The Rome club's most successful European Cup campaign came in 1999/2000, when they reached the quarter- finals before losing to Valencia (2-5 a, 1-0 h). • The Biancocelesti took part in the UEFA Europa League group stage in 2019/20, winning two of their fixtures but losing the other four to finish third in the standings behind Celtic and CFR Cluj. • Simone Inzaghi's side – who qualified for the group stage by finishing fourth in Serie A in 2019/20 – have lost eight of their last ten European matches (W2). • Lazio have lost three of their last five home European games (W2), as many defeats as they suffered in their previous 30 European fixtures in Rome (W21 D6). • Lazio's last home fixture against Bundesliga visitors resulted in a first defeat, 1-2 against Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League group stage. Their record before that loss was W5 D1, although home and away they have now lost three successive matches against German opponents. Dortmund • Second in the Bundesliga behind Bayern München for the second season running in 2019/20, this is Dortmund's 15th UEFA Champions League campaign; they were winners in 1997, and runners-up in 2013. BVB have reached the round of 16 in six of their last seven participations. • Lucien Favre's side finished second behind Barcelona in their section last season, picking up ten points – seven of them at home – to finish ahead of Internazionale and Slavia Praha. • Dortmund were 2-1 winners at home to Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16 first leg, but bowed out after going down 2-0 in the return in France. • BVB have won four of their last seven European matches (L3), all three defeats coming away from home. • Dortmund have managed only three victories in their last 16 European away matches (D4 L9), although all of those wins have come in their last eight matches (L5) – and all in the UEFA Champions League group stage. • BVB lost 2-0 at Inter in last season's group stage, their third defeat in their last four visits to Italy (D1). Dortmund have lost both their games in Rome 1-0 having also gone down at Roma in the 1992/93 UEFA Cup quarter-final (2-1 aggregate). Links and trivia • Lazio striker Ciro Immobile played for Dortmund in 2014/15, scoring just three goals in 24 Bundesliga games but four in six UEFA Champions League appearances. • Lazio's Pepe Reina made three appearances in Bayern's Bundesliga-winning campaign in 2014/15. 2 SS Lazio - Borussia Dortmund Tuesday 20 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome • Lazio sporting director Igli Tare played in Germany for seven seasons, representing Mannheim (1994/95), Südwest Ludwigshafen (1995/96), Karlsruhe (1996/97), Fortuna Düsseldorf (1997–99) and Kaiserslautern (1999–2001). • Dortmund's Emre Can played in Italy for Juventus between 2018 and 2020, scoring four goals in 45 games. • Have played together: Senad Lulić & Roman Bürki (Young Boys 2010/11) Lucas Leiva & Emre Can (Liverpool 2014–17) • Both Mats Hummels and Marco Parolo scored their penalties as Germany defeated Italy in a shoot-out in the UEFA EURO 2016 quarter-finals. • Jadon Sancho scored twice in England's 5-3 UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying win against Kosovo on 10 September 2019, Vedat Muriqi getting one of the visitors' goals. Latest news Lazio • Summer transfers In: Vedat Muriqi (Fenerbahçe), Mohamed Fares (SPAL), Pepe Reina (Milan), Gonzalo Escalante (Eibar), Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro (Salernitana), Andreas Pereira (Manchester United, loan), Riza Durmisi (Nice), Wesley Hoedt (Southampton, loan) Out: Valon Berisha (Reims), Ricardo Kishna (Den Haag), Milan Badelj (Genoa), Jony (Osasuna, loan), Wallace (Malatyaspor), Ivan Vargić (Koper), Jordan Lukaku (Royal Antwerp) • Lazio started the new season with a 2-0 win at Cagliari on 26 September. Ciro Immobile, who scored 36 Serie A goals last season, opened his account for the new campaign with the second goal after Manuel Lazzari, who failed to register in 32 league games last season, had scored his first in Serie A for Lazio. • Simone Inzaghi's men were then beaten 4-1 at home by Atalanta before drawing 1-1 against Inter and, on Saturday, losing 3-0 at Sampdoria. • Lazzari suffered a thigh injury while on international duty with Italy and missed the defeat at Sampdoria. • Luiz Felipe has not played this season having twisted his left ankle in September. • Senad Lulić has been out since February when he twice underwent surgery on his ankle. • Adam Marušić limped off with a thigh injury in the first half against Inter, returning as a half-time substitute at Sampdoria. Bastos suffered a groin injury against Inter and missed Saturday's match. • Sergej Milinković-Savić scored Lazio's goal against Inter and also got both goals, including an extra-time winner, as Serbia triumphed 2-1 in Norway in the UEFA EURO 2020 play-off semi-finals on 8 October. • Six days later, Milinković-Savić again found the net for Serbia, in a 2-2 UEFA Nations League draw against Turkey. • Joaquín Correa scored the decisive goal as Argentina won 2-1 in Bolivia in 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying on 13 October. • On 28 September Luis Alberto renewed his contract with Lazio until 30 June 2025. • Immobile had also signed a new contract until 2025 on 31 August. Dortmund • Summer transfers In: Jude Bellingham (Birmingham), Thomas Meunier (Paris), Reinier (Real Madrid, loan) Out: Mario Götze (PSV), Eric Oelschlägel (Utrecht), Dženis Burnić (Heidenheim), Leonardo Balerdi (Marseille, loan) • Emre Can is banned following a red card in the round of 16 second leg against Paris in the last season. • Dortmund's first competitive match in 2020/21 was a 5-0 win at third tier Duisburg in the first round of the German Cup on 14 September. • Jude Bellingham scored on his BVB debut in Duisburg, becoming the club's youngest ever scorer aged 17 years 77 days. • On 19 September BVB won 3-0 against Mönchengladbach on the first day of the Bundesliga season, Giovanni Reyna scoring his first league goal and Erling Braut Haaland getting two. • The following week Dortmund went down 2-0 at Augsburg. • On 30 September BVB lost 3-2 in the German Super Cup at Bayern München, but they were 4-0 winners against Freiburg in the Bundesliga three days later. • Felix Passlack scored his first Bundesliga goal against Freiburg, Haaland getting another two. 3 SS Lazio - Borussia Dortmund Tuesday 20 October 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome • Dortmund were 1-0 winners at Hoffenheim on Saturday. • Haaland has 17 goals in 19 Bundesliga appearances for Dortmund and set up Marco Reus' winner at the weekend. • On 4 September Haaland scored his first goal for Norway in a 2-1 UEFA Nations League defeat against Austria. Three days later the striker was on target twice in a 5-1 win at Northern Ireland. • On 11 October Haaland scored a hat-trick in a 4-0 UEFA Nations League win against Romania, making it six goals in seven appearances for Norway. • In UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying on 4 September, aged 17 years 68 days, Bellingham became England's youngest debutant and scorer in a 6-0 win in Kosovo. • Nico Schulz suffered a muscle injury in Germany's 3-3 friendly draw against Turkey on 7 October and missed the UEFA Nations League games in Ukraine and against Switzerland as well as Saturday's Dortmund game. • Manuel Akanji missed Switzerland's three games in the October international period and Dortmund's win on Saturday due to illness. • Thorgan Hazard suffered a thigh injury against Mönchengladbach and has not played since.