Comments, predictions Sporting Lisbon vs Borussia Dortmund: Difficult draw

Still without a Champions League win since Ruben Amorim's departure, Sporting Lisbon welcome Borussia Dortmund to the Estadio Jose Alvalade for the first leg of their play-off tie on Tuesday.

Four places and 13 points separated these two clubs in the group stage standings, with BVB closing in on a top eight finish while their hosts just did enough to keep their continental adventure alive.

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Sporting's draw with Bologna on the final matchday of the group stage saw Morten Hjulmand pick up his third yellow card of the tournament, and as cards are not cleared until the quarter-finals, the Dane must serve out a suspension this week.

Hjulmand joins Pedro Goncalves (muscle), Joao Simoes (unknown) and Nuno Santos (ACL) on the sidelines for Sporting in the first leg on Tuesday, but even though Matheus Reis and Ousmane Diomande both picked up red cards against Porto, they are still in good shape to feature in the Champions League.

Teenager Harder also started in attack on Friday night following a thigh injury to Viktor Gyokeres, but the hosts' Swedish phenom will be brought back into the starting line-up on Tuesday, where he looks to build on an incredible record of 34 goals from as many games this season.

Meanwhile, Dortmund deadline day signing Carney Chukwuemeka failed to make his debut for the German giants against Stuttgart after picking up a knock to his knee in training, and his availability for Tuesday's first leg is also up in the air.

However, the Chelsea loanee is just one of two fitness concerns for the visitors, who are also without Felix Nmecha (knee) for a few more weeks, but have a clean bill of health.

Equal to Robert Lewandowski with a tournament-high nine goals in the group stage, Guirassy can now join Poland and Erling Haaland as only the third Dortmund player to score as many as 10 goals in a single Champions League season; no BVB player has ever managed 11 in a single campaign.

Latest expected lineup Sporting Lisbon vs Borussia Dortmund

Sporting Lisbon:

Israel; Fresneda, Diomande, Inacio, Araujo; Braganca, Debast, Morita; Trincao, Gyokeres, Quenda

Borussia Dortmund:

Kobel; Ryerson, Can, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Sabitzer, Gross; Adeyemi, Brandt, Gittens; Guirassy

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As previous manager Amorim to turn around Manchester United's fortunes, Sporting have also seen their strength fade since the departure of the 40-year-old, who appeared to be the glue holding everything together at the Estadio Jose Alvalade.

After taking 10 points from their opening four Champions League games to enter the top-eight conversation, Sporting have failed to win any of their last four matches in the opening stage; none of the 24 teams that have advanced to the knockout stages have had a longer winless streak.

Arsenal, Club Brugge and RB Leipzig all condemned Sporting to defeat during that time, but a 1-1 draw with Bologna on matchday eight – where 19-year-old Danish striker Conrad Harder was the hero with a second-half equaliser – saw the Portuguese giants progress to the play-offs on goal difference.

However, new boss Rui Borges was able to steady the ship a little and Sporting fell just short of a hard-fought win over Primeira Liga rivals Porto in Friday's blockbuster, only for the Dragons to equalise in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time.

Having reeled from that gut-wrenching stalemate – where they also finished the game with nine men – Sporting are now making a welcome return to their Alvalade headquarters, where they are unbeaten in their last seven games in all competitions and have only dropped points against Bologna in that time.

Also adjusting to life with a new face at the helm, Borussia Dortmund were under the wing of Nuri Sahin's interim successor - Mike Tullberg - for their most recent Champions League contest, where Serhou Guirassy scored a brace in a 3-1 success over Shakhtar Donetsk.

With five wins and three losses on their log from the group stage, Dortmund overtook their 2023-24 finalists, Real Madrid, to finish in the top 10 in the league stage, although it was the top eight that last season's beaten finalists had been aiming for.

Since last taking to the field in Europe, BVB have welcomed former Bayern Munich boss Niko Kovac into the cabin, but his reign has gotten off to the worst possible start; Dortmund suffered a 2-1 home defeat to Stuttgart in the Bundesliga on Saturday, their fifth defeat in eight games in all competitions.

Weakening in the bottom half of Germany's top flight, Dortmund have blamed a lack of defensive discipline for their predicament, with defeat to Stuttgart on Saturday leaving them without a clean sheet in 13 games in all competitions since comfortably overcoming Dinamo Zagreb 3-0 in November.

On the other side of the coin, the 22 goals scored in the UCL stage is the second-best attacking return behind only Barcelona's 28, giving a misfiring Dortmund some hope as they aim to avenge a 3-1 defeat to Sporting from their last meeting in November 2021.

Latest Sporting Lisbon vs Borussia Dortmund score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the following results for the match Sporting Lisbon vs Borussia Dortmund :

• Sportsmole: Sporting Lisbon 1-1 Borussia Dortmund

• WhoScore: Sporting Lisbon 1-2 Borussia Dortmund
• Our prediction: Sporting Lisbon 1-1 Borussia Dortmund

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