UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Jan Breydelstadion - Bruges Wednesday 4 November 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Club Brugge Group F - Matchday 3 Borussia Dortmund Last updated 03/11/2020 03:09CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Match background 2 Legend 5 1 Club Brugge - Borussia Dortmund Wednesday 4 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges Match background Club Brugge are looking to end a long run without a home UEFA Champions League group stage victory as they welcome Borussia Dortmund to Belgium. • There is only one point between the sides in what is shaping up to be a three-way tussle at the top of Group F. Club Brugge have four points thanks to a 2-1 opening win at Zenit and 1-1 draw at home to Lazio; Dortmund went down 3-1 in Italy on the opening night but got back on track with a 2-0 defeat of Zenit on home soil. Previous meetings • The teams were paired together in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League group stage, Dortmund's Christian Pulišić scoring the only goal of those two games in the 85th minute in Belgium on Matchday 1. • Prior to that season, the teams had each won two of their four matches, all at home – but Club Brugge emerged victorious in both ties, both in dramatic circumstances. • In the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, each side won the home leg 2-1, sending the tie into a penalty shoot-out in Dortmund which was won 4-2 by the vistors. • Dortmund appeared to have seized control of their 1986/87 UEFA Cup third round tie against Club Brugge with a 3-0 first-leg success in West Germany – only for the Belgian side to score three times themselves in the return to force extra time. There goals from Franky Van der Elst and Leo Van der Elst (no relation), with the latter completing his hat- trick, sealed a spectacular comeback. Form guide Club Brugge • Club Brugge are in the group stage for the third year in a row, the first time they have achieved that feat; it is their eighth UEFA Champions League group appearance overall. They have never progressed to the knockout rounds. • In 2019/20, the Belgian side finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid in Group A, picking up three points (D3 L3). It was the second year running they had finished third in their group. • They went on to lose to Manchester United in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 (1-1 h, 0-5 a). • The Matchday 1 win at Zenit was only Club Brugge's second victory in their last 20 fixtures in the UEFA Champions League proper (D7 L11); they have won none of their last 11 home matches in the group stage (D5 L6), since a 3-2 defeat of Rapid Wien in November 2005. • Club Brugge are without a win in five home European matches (D3 L2), since a 2-1 defeat of LASK in the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League play-offs. That was their third straight home victory; they had lost only one of their eight previous home European matches (W3 D4) before their current winless streak started. • The Bruges club have won only one of their last 11 fixtures against German clubs, home and away (D3 L7) – that 2003 defeat of Dortmund. They won seven of their first eight home matches against Bundesliga clubs, losing one, but that Dortmund success is the sole victory in the subsequent six (D2 L3). 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 five of their last nine European matches (L4), all four defeats coming away from home. • Erling Braut Haaland, who got the second goal against Zenit on Matchday 2, has scored in seven of his eight group stage appearances, ten goals in all. • Dortmund have managed only three victories in their last 17 European away matches (D4 L10), although all of those wins have come in their last nine matches (L6) – and all in the UEFA Champions League group stage. • Dortmund have won their last three games in Belgium, having been beaten in each of their first three matches in the country. They have kept a clean sheet in each of those victories; in contrast, those three defeats featured one goal scored and eight conceded. Links and trivia 2 Club Brugge - Borussia Dortmund Wednesday 4 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges • Thomas Meunier was part of the Club Brugge side that won the league title in 2015/16 having lifted the Belgian Cup the previous season. He was at the club between 2011 and 2016, scoring 19 goals in 198 appearances in all competitions. • Meunier's team-mates at Club Brugge included Brandon Mechele, Ruud Vormer and Hans Vanaken; Vormer and Vanaken were part of the title-winning squad in 2016. • Meunier also represented Virton (2006–2011) at both youth and senior level in Belgium, and was a youth-team player at Standard Liège between 2004 and 2006. • Have also played in Belgium: Axel Witsel (Standard Liège 1999–2011) Thorgan Hazard (Zulte Waregem 2012–14 loan) • Hazard scored Zulte Waregem's winner in a 2-1 league play-off defeat of Club Brugge on 12 April 2014. • Witsel scored in Standard's 3-1 home win against Club Brugge on 8 November 2009 and got the only goal in Liège on 7 May 2011. • Thomas Delaney scored Copenhagen's second goal in a 4-0 defeat of Club Brugge in Denmark in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Mats Hummels (first leg, 1-1) and Marco Reus (second leg, 3-4) both scored past Simon Mignolet in Dortmund's meeting with Liverpool in the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League quarter-final, although it was the English side who progressed. • International team-mates: Simon Mignolet, Brandon Mechele, Hans Vanaken & Thomas Meunier, Axel Witsel, Thorgan Hazard (Belgium) Latest news Club Brugge • Club Brugge lost two of their first three league games this season but had won five in a row, scoring 17 goals and conceding only three, before drawing 1-1 at Standard Liège on 17 October. • The Belgian champions have won just one of their last five matches in all competitions (D3 L1). On Saturday, they drew 2-2 at home to Mechelen having been two goals up. • Top scorers Krépin Diatta and Hans Vanaken both have five goals in the league this season. • Noa Lang, who scored for the second league game in a row on Saturday, provided an assist in the Netherlands' 7-0 win in Cyprus in UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying on 13 October. • Matej Mitrović has a heel problem and has not played since the 5-0 loss at Manchester United in last season's UEFA Europa League round of 32 second leg on 27 February. Dortmund • Jude Bellingham became the youngest Englishman to play in the UEFA Champions League on Matchday 1, aged 17 years 113 days. • Bellingham scored on his BVB debut in Duisburg, becoming the club's youngest ever scorer aged 17 years 77 days. • On 30 September BVB lost 3-2 in the German Super Cup at Bayern München. • Dortmund's record in this season's Bundesliga is W5 L1. They were 2-0 winners at Arminia Bielefeld on Saturday. • Mats Hummels scored both of Dortmund's goals on Saturday, the first time he had found the net twice in the same game since 17 January 2010. It is also the first time the defender has scored more than once in a Bundesliga season since 2015/16. • Felix Passlack scored his first Bundesliga goal in the 4-0 home win against Freiburg on 3 October, Erling Braut Haaland getting another two. • Haaland has 18 goals in 20 Bundesliga appearances for Dortmund. • 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 has not played 3 Club Brugge - Borussia Dortmund Wednesday 4 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges since. • Emre Can, who was suspended for Dortmund's first two Group F games, has not played since 17 October due to illness. • Dan-Axel Zagadou has been sidelined since August by a knee injury. 4 Club Brugge - Borussia Dortmund Wednesday 4 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Jan Breydelstadion, Bruges Legend ALL-TIME STATISTICS The all-time record of the competing clubs in UEFA club competition.