Anderlecht v Dortmund background

RSC Anderlecht meet Borussia Dortmund on matchday two seeking a first ever win over German opposition in the UEFA Champions League group stage.

Previous meetings
• The sides met in the 1990/91 UEFA Cup third round when Anderlecht progressed on away goals, winning 1-0 at home and losing 2-1 away.

• The lineups at Constant Vanden Stock Stadium on 28 November 1990, when Anderlecht's Marc Venderlinden struck the only goal, were:
Anderlecht: De Wilde, Van Tiggelen, Kooiman, Rutjes, De Wolf, Musonda, Van Baekel (Crasson 73), Oliveira, Degryse, Nilis, Verheyen (Vanderlinden 39).
Dortmund: De Beer, Gorlukovich, Kutowski, Quallo, Helmer, Poschner, Lusch (Wegmann 77), Zorc, Povlsen, Rummenigge, Mill (Strerath 20).

• In the return Alain Van Baekel increased the Belgian side's advantage before BVB replied through Sergei Gorlukovich and Michael Schulz.

Match background

Anderlecht
• The Belgian champions won their last Brussels encounter with German opponents, 4-3 against Hamburger SV in the 2009/10 UEFA Cup round of 16, but went out 6-5 on aggregate. They failed to win any of their previous six, drawing two and losing four.

• Prior to a 2-1 second-leg win at FC Bayern München in the 2007/08 UEFA Cup round of 16 – they lost 6-2 on aggregate – Anderlecht had not won in ten games against Bundesliga opposition.

• They have lost five UEFA Champions League group stage encounters with German sides, managing just a solitary draw, 1-1 against Bayern in 2003/04. Overall their record against German teams is W12 D3 L16.

• Anderlecht are in the group stage for a third successive year – the first time in eight years that they have achieved that feat – and the 11th time in all.

• Last year they finished fourth in their group with just a single point, drawing away against Paris Saint-Germain. They lost all three home games, conceding 11 goals and scoring just twice.

• The Belgian champions have finished bottom of the group in all seven group stage campaigns since they reached the last 16 (qualifying for the second group stage) in 2000/01.

• In those six seasons Anderlecht have won just four fixtures and when they beat FC Zenit 1-0 on matchday four in 2012/13 it was their first home success in the UEFA Champions League proper in ten years.

Dortmund
• BVB won on their last visit to Belgium, 1-0 at KRC Genk in the 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup third round, losing 2-1 at home. Their only other Belgian assignments were both against Club Brugge KV, losing 5-0 away for a 5-3 aggregate defeat in the 1987/88 UEFA Cup third round.

• In the 2003/04 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round Dortmund and Club Brugge won their home legs 2-1, Dortmund losing 4-2 on penalties.

• Winners in 1996/97 and runners-up two seasons ago, Dortmund are in their tenth group stage campaign.

• Last season they reached the quarter-finals, a 2-0 second-leg home win over Real Madrid CF not enough to overturn a 3-0 defeat away.

• Dortmund lost at SSC Napoli but then won at Arsenal FC and Olympique de Marseille and continued their winning ways at Zenit in the round of 16. 

• They have lost just one of their last six away games in the group stage, winning three.

Coach and player links 
• Aleksandar Mitrović is a Serbia team-mate of Miloš Jojić and Neven Subotić.

• Mitrović and Jojić played together for FK Partizan youths and FK Zemun.

Match facts

Anderlecht

• Silvio Proto returns from a one-game European ban.

• Besnik Hasi's side squandered a two-goal lead at K. Patro Eisden Maasmechelen before winning the Belgian Cup round of 32 tie 5-3 after extra time on 24 September. Nathan Kabasele, with two penalties, and Mitrović scored twice.

• Anderlecht have won all five of their home games this season, including the Belgian Super Cup fixture against KSC Lokeren OV on 20 July.

• Dennis Praet (calf) and Bram Nuytinck (toe) have not played since being substituted on matchday one.

• Fabrice N'Sakala suffered a knee ligament injury in training on 3 September and is expected to be out until November at the earliest.

Dortmund

• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's fourth goal in five outings was not enough for Dortmund on Saturday, halving the defecit on 26 minutes in the 145th Revierderby as home team FC Schalke 04 held on to win 2-1.

• Dortmund followed up their matchday one win with a 2-0 loss at 1. FSV Mainz 05 on 20 September. Ciro Immobile had a 70th-minute penalty saved and Matthias Ginter scored an own goal.

• Henrikh Mkhitaryan sustained a foot injury against Mainz, ruling him out for around a month.

• Goals from Aubameyang and Immobile, his first in the Bundesliga, helped Dortmund recover from two down to draw 2-2 at home against VfB Stuttgart on 24 September.

• Against Stuttgart, substitute Mats Hummels made his first appearance since the FIFA World Cup final after recovering from muscular problems.

• The Stuttgart game was Jürgen Klopp's 209th in the Bundesliga as Dortmund coach, one more than Ottmar Hitzfeld oversaw during his Schwarzgelben tenure to make him the club's longest-serving coach.

• İlkay Gündoğan (out since August 2013, back) has resumed light training. Oliver Kirch has not played since sustaining a thigh injury on 19 August, while Sebastian Kehl has not featured since matchday one due to a foot injury.

• Jakub Błaszczykowski had also returned to training following a knee injury that has kept him out since January but suffered a thigh strain in September and was signed off for another four to six weeks.

• Nuri Şahin underwent knee surgery on 3 September and is expected to be sidelined for around two months. Marco Reus was ruled out for four weeks after damaging ankle ligaments during Germany's UEFA EURO 2016 qualifier against Scotland on 7 September. He sat out the World Cup finals with another ankle problem.