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Live Man City vs Borussia Dortmund: Lineups announced – Haaland captain against old club
05 November 2025 7:57pm GMT
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Borussia Dortmund team news
Niko Kovac makes five changes
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Haaland captains City against former club
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Familiar faces but not familiar foes
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Erling Haaland and Phil Foden warm up ahead of kick-off Credit: Getty Images/Gareth Copley
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Northern Football Correspondent, at the Etihad Stadium.
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live updates
7:47PM
Pep Guardiola speaks to TNT Sports
I will tell you in two hours [if the players benefited from the extra day off]. No, the team is ready. [Nice touch to make Haaland captain?] No [not a sentimental choice]. Erling is one of the captains and two of the others are not playing. We focus on what we’re doing.
Rodri doesn’t feel perfect so we are not taking the risk. He will come up. It’s a little, little, little, little setback. He will not be out for a while.
[Are you resting players before the Liverpool game?] After 10 years you know me. I never pick a team without thinking it’s the best team to win this game.
7:38PM
Haaland: I ignore goal records – but Shearer’s I know
Less than 48 hours after performing “The Robot” to celebrate a goal, Erling Haaland was back at Manchester City’s Etihad campus showing a more human side to himself. On his day off, Haaland wanted to be in front of the cameras ahead of facing Borussia Dortmund, who he played three seasons with.
“Hey guys. Guten tag, if there are any Germans here,” was his opener.
The Peter Crouch-esque dance after scoring against Bournemouth was prompted because his finishing has mechanical precision but, when quizzed by the journalists covering City, Haaland’s responses are far from automated.
He took on one reporter about how many times he has been offside this season. When the goalscoring records that he could reach are discussed, he has to double-check with the reporter which landmarks he is talking about. “I need to ask you which record then? Not to sound arrogant, but which one?” he said.
7:24PM
City had Monday and Tuesday off
“We will train tomorrow morning,” Pep Guardiola said at his pre-match press conference. “I have done it a few times, sometimes I prefer it.
“It was such a demanding game against Bournemouth, I prefer they stay at home.
“It is what it is. No words are going to change the schedule.
“In Germany and France they try to play on Friday. Here it is completely the opposite but if I don’t like it I go to train in Germany and France.”
7:17PM
Haaland scored 86 goals in 89 BVB appearances
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7:07PM
Teams for the monochrome set
Manchester City Donnarumma; Nunes, Stones, Gvardiol, O’Reilly; González; Savio, Reijnders, Foden, Doku; Haaland.
Substitutes Trafford, Bettinelli, Dias, Ake, Marmoush, Cherki, Silva, Ait Nouri, Khusanov, Bobb, Lewis.
Borussia Dortmund Kobel; Anton, Schlotterbeck, Bensebaini; Ryerson, Nmecha, Sabitzer, Svensson; Adeyemi, Beier; Guirassy.
Substitutes Ostrzinski, Meyer, Yan Couto, Bellingham, Gross, Chukwuemeka, Silva, Can, Anselmino.
Referee Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
6:55PM
Borussia Dortmund team news
Kovac makes five chnages from victory over Augsburg: Anselmino, Couto, Gross, Brandt and Chukwuemeka make way for Schlotterbeck, Ryerson, Svensson, Sabitzer and Adeyemi.
6:46PM
Man City team news
Stones, Savinho and Reijnders come in as Haaland captains the side against his old club:
5:25PM
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5:23PM
Preview: Familiar faces but not familiar foes
Good evening and welcome to live coverage of the 36-team league phase Champions League tie between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund from Etihad Stadium. Because of the number of players traded between the clubs over the past decade – Erling Haaland, Ilkay Gundogan, Manuel Akanji, Felix Nmecha, Sergio Gomes, Yan Couto, Jamie Bynoe-Gittens and Jadon Sancho – it feels like these two have met far more frequently than they actually have. There have been merely six games in total, and four in the past six years when City were victorious in both quarter-final legs in 2020-21 by two goals to one and, en route to winning the Treble in 2022-23, beating them 2-1 at home (with Haaland scoring in his first match against his old club) and drawing the return group-stage match 0-0.
Both have begun this competition well and started today on seven points each after two wins and a draw. Dortmund were 4-2 up in Turin in the fourth minute of stoppage time only for Juventus to score twice in 150 seconds to nick a point but they rallied by scoring four more to beat Bilbao’s Athletic Club 4-1 and again to dispatch Copenhagen 4-2. Twelve goals in their opening three matches was bettered only by champions PSG’s 13 but the nature of the seven they conceded demonstrate some weaknesses between their back three and the central midfield pairing. Clean sheets in their last two Bundesliga matches have out Niko Kovac in a better mood. Their attack may be weakened by the absence of their injured captain Julian Brandt but in Serhou Guirassy, who scored 68 goals in the previous two seasons and seven already in this campaign, they have a striker who is now rivalling Haaland’s former status in the Yellow Wall’s affections.
City followed their 2-0 victory over Napoli in the first round of fixtures by chucking away two points in Monte Carlo when Eric Dier’s 90th-minute equaliser from the spot left Haaland professing himself profoundly “p—– off” at the final whistle. Winning 2-0 away against Villarreal in their most fluent performance for months restored his equilibrium and City, the 1-0 defeat by Villa a fortnight ago notwithstanding, would be astonished not to win this and move ahead of their opponents into the top eight with ties against Leverkusen, Real Madrid, Bodo/Glimt and Galatasaray to come.
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