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Your support makes all the difference.Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of tonight’s Europa League quarter-final first leg between Borussia Dortmund and Liverpool.
It promises to be an emotional night. Jurgen Klopp returns to the club at which he built his reputation by winning back-to-back Bundesliga titles and reaching a Champions League final – a place where he will forever be remembered as an icon.
Considering the way his replacement Thomas Tuchel has his old team playing, though, he’ll be wary of a walkover.
Die Schwarzgelben dismantled Tottenham Hotspur in the last round and the team who many rate as the best left in this tournament could easily do the same to their old master’s Liverpool side.
Borussia Dortmund vs Liverpool
Team news
Borussia Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek, Bender, Hummels, Schmelzer, Castro, Weigl, Durm, Mkhitaryan, Reus, Aubameyang
Substitutes: Bürki, Sahin, Ginter, Leitner, Pulisic, Sokratis, Kagawa
Liverpool: Mignolet, Clyne, Lovren, Sakho, Moreno, Henderson, Can, Milner, Lallana, Coutinho, Origi
Substitutes: Ward, Toure, Smith, Allen, Ibe, Firmino, Sturridge
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Welcome to The Independent's live coverage of Borussia Dortmund vs Liverpool!
All the attention in the build-up to this Europa League quarter-final first leg has been on Jurgen Klopp, who returns to the club at which he made his name and the supporters who adore him.
There's also a game to be played, in case anyone had forgotten, and it'll be between two of the best sides left in the competition.
Liverpool, despite their inconsistency, have shown they are capable of some wonderfully entertaining football in the last few months, not least in that barnstorming 1-1 draw against Tottenham last Saturday.
Dortmund, of course, didn't merely match Mauricio Pochettino's side but beat them convincingly. Twice. Read as much into that as you want but, whichever way you put it, it looks like we're in for an eventful evening.
We'll have team news and regular updates from around 7.00pm, with minute-by-minute coverage from kick-off at 8.05pm.
Here's your team news...
Borussia Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek, Bender, Hummels, Schmelzer, Castro, Weigl, Durm, Mkhitaryan, Reus, Aubameyang
Substitutes: Bürki, Sahin, Ginter, Leitner, Pulisic, Sokratis, Kagawa
Liverpool: Mignolet, Clyne, Lovren, Sakho, Moreno, Henderson, Can, Milner, Lallana, Coutinho, Origi
Substitutes: Ward, Toure, Smith, Allen, Ibe, Firmino, Sturridge
I'm in love with this place and not because we won The UEFA Cup here! The atmosphere is ELECTRIC. Come on Liverpool!
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Thomas Tuchel raised a lot of eyebrows in this country after his side's demolition of Tottenham, one of our top flight's most impressive teams this season.Tuchel, like Klopp, was at Mainz before Dortmund, so what price he follows his predecesssor's path to Anfield in the future?
Surprisingly enough, Tuchel himself addressed the possibility when Klopp's Liverpool appointment was announced last October."I’m so happy that Kloppo has finally made up his mind,” he joked. “Now I know where I’ll be going next as a coach.”
Jurgen Klopp's explained his decision to select Divock Origi and drop Daniel Sturridge, a move that was pre-empted by a lot of the newspaper this morning.
"We need his physical strenght, his speed, but there's no doubt about the physical qualities of Daniel."Tonight it makes sense to start with Divock and have Daniel and Roberto [Firmino] on the bench."
Well, here we are. 'You'll Never Walk Alone'. The moment a lot of you had been waiting for tonight and it's, erm, different...It's certainly not Gerry and the Pacemakers' version, more lounge-y, more like your uncle at a wedding after a few cold drinks and one too many divorces.
It improves once the fans begin to drown out Dortmund's specially-appointed crooner but still not a patch on that spectacular one at Anfield before the Manchester United first leg.
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