Borussia Dortmund vs Real Betis - prediction, team news, lineups

BVB Stadion volition play big to an intriguing Champions League fixture connected Wednesday evening, arsenic Borussia Dortmund invited Real Betis.

Dortmund are 13th successful the Champions League league signifier table, picking up six points from 3 matches, portion Betis are 5th successful the rankings connected 9 points.

Match preview

Dortmund opened their 2026-27 Champions League league signifier run with a 3-2 location occurrence implicit Villarreal, earlier suffering a 1-0 decision to Bodo/Glimt successful their 2nd match, but they returned to winning ways past clip out, beating Sabah 2-1.

A instrumentality of six points from 3 matches has near BVB successful 13th spot successful the wide table, and they volition bring a five-game unbeaten tally into this contest, including a 2-2 gully with Bayern Munich successful the Bundesliga connected Saturday night.

Dortmund, who person won 3 of their past 4 matches during a beardown run, are preparing to look Real Betis for the archetypal time, but they person won each of their past 4 UEFA matches against Spanish opposition, each of which person been astatine home.

Niko Kovac's broadside volition travel this lucifer with back-to-back Bundesliga games against Elversberg and Borussia Monchengladbach, earlier returning to European enactment against Arsenal astatine the Emirates Stadium connected November 24.

Dortmund reached the Champions League knockout signifier playoffs successful 2025-26, losing to Atalanta BC, truthful determination is plentifulness of country for betterment this term.

Real Betis, meanwhile, volition participate the lucifer disconnected the backmost of a 2-1 triumph implicit Malaga successful La Liga, with the effect leaving them 4th successful their home table.

It has been a beardown commencement to the 2026-27 run for Manuel Pellegrini's side, who person been victorious successful their opening 3 matches of this season's Champions League.

The Seville outfit started their European run with a 3-2 triumph implicit Lille, earlier posting a 3-2 triumph implicit Porto; six points past became 9 courtesy of a 1-0 occurrence implicit Feyenoord, and they are up successful 5th spot successful the wide table.

Real Betis reached the quarter-finals of the 2025-26 Europa League, losing to Braga, portion they were successful the last of the 2024-25 Conference League, being beaten by Chelsea.

El Glorioso past competed successful the Champions League successful 2005-06, being knocked retired successful the radical stage, but they look susceptible of advancing to the knockout circular of this season's European Cup.

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Team News

Dortmund volition beryllium without the services of Kaua Prates (muscle), but the location broadside are different successful beardown signifier for their clash with Real Betis.

Serhou Guirassy has been successful beardown signifier this season, scoring 8 times and registering 2 assists successful 13 appearances, and the 30-year-old volition proceed successful the last 3rd of the field.

Fabio Silva has 5 goals and 2 assists successful 13 matches this play and volition besides start, portion Jobe Bellingham is successful enactment to diagnostic arsenic an precocious midfielder for the German club.

As for Real Betis, Cucho Hernandez (calf) and Junior Firpo (muscular) are some retired of the match, but nary caller issues person been reported.

Three players person scored 4 times for Real Betis this play - Isco, Marc Bartra and Abde Ezzalzouli - and the trio are acceptable to diagnostic successful the archetypal XI.

Troy Parrott has 2 goals successful 11 appearances for the Seville outfit during the 2026-27 run and should besides diagnostic successful the starting broadside owed to Hernandez's absence.

Meanwhile, Antony and Pablo Fornals are expected to beryllium successful the XI.

Borussia Dortmund imaginable starting lineup:

Kobel; Gadou, Anton, Schlotterbeck; Ryerson, Veerman, Nmecha, Svensson; Bellingham; F Silva, Guirassy

Real Betis imaginable starting lineup:

Valles; Bellerin, Bartra, Natan, F Garcia; Fornals, Roca; Antony, Isco, Ezzalzouli; Parrott

We say: Borussia Dortmund 2-1 Real Betis

Real Betis person been fantabulous successful this season's Champions League, and the La Liga nine merit a batch of respect, but Dortmund astatine location are a pugnacious proposition, and we are backing BVB to borderline a adjacent crippled connected Wednesday.

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