What numbers say ahead of BVB v Sevilla

Borussia Dortmund’s only previous home match against Sevilla was in the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League group stage, losing 1-0.Catch the action live on SuperSport with live streaming available on DStv and Showmax.

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Sevilla have lost three of their last four UEFA Champions League matches against German sides, since a 3-0 victory over Borussia Mönchengladbach in September 2015.

Borussia Dortmund are unbeaten in their last seven home games in the UEFA Champions League (W5 D2) and have only lost one of their previous 11 on home soil in the competition (0-1 v eventual finalists Spurs in 2018-19).

Sevilla have won their previous two away games in the UEFA Champions League – excluding qualifiers, the last time they won three consecutive away games in European competition was in the UEFA Cup in 2006-07; a season in which they won the competition.

Should Borussia Dortmund avoid defeat they will qualify for the UEFA Champions League quarter-final for the first time since 2016-17 under Thomas Tuchel. They have lost the second legs of each of their last two last 16 ties, a 1-0 defeat to Spurs in 2018-19 and 2-0 loss to PSG in 2019-20.

Sevilla have never gone through in a European Cup/UEFA Champions League knockout tie after losing the first leg, going out against Real Madrid in 1957-58, Fenerbahçe in 2007-08 and Bayern Munich in 2017-18.

Dortmund manager Edin Terzic is looking to become the fourth German manager to win his first two UEFA Champions League games, after Josef Heynckes, Klaus Toppmöller and Hans-Dieter Flick. All three managers reached the final in the seasons they won their first two games, with Heynckes (1998, Real Madrid) and Flick (2020, Bayern Munich) winning the competition.

Sevilla manager Julen Lopetegui’s only away UEFA Champions League match in Germany ended in a 6-1 defeat to Bayern Munich as FC Porto manager in the second leg of their 2014/15 quarter-final, his heaviest ever defeat in European competition.

Dortmund’s Erling Haaland has scored a brace in each of his last three UEFA Champions League appearances. Another brace here will see him become the first player in the history of the competition to score 2+ goals in four consecutive appearances.

Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland has scored 18 goals in 13 UEFA Champions League appearances – the quickest a player has ever reached 20 goals in the competition is 24 appearances, achieved by Harry Kane in November 2019, a record which Haaland could break by 10 games with two or more goals in this match.