Leipzig made the move to sack Domenico Tedesco on Wednesday, after a disastrous start to the season was compounded by a 4-1 drubbing at home to Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League in midweek. This afternoon the Red Bulls welcome the contenders for the Bundesliga title – Borussia Dortmund.The visitors would move top of the table with a victory, while the hosts have only picked up five points from their first five matches, leading to them making a change in the managerial dugout.The 36-year-old enjoyed a decent debut season for Leipzig last time out, consolidating their place in the top four, before winning their first ever major trophy when they defeated Freiburg on penalties in the DFB-Pokal final.’Haaland issue became a burden in Borussia’s dressing room’But even so, the historic success did not earn him as much time as many felt it may after a slow start this season. Also, the nature of their last two defeats was seemingly too much for the Red Bull ownership group to put up with. Leipzig’s defence was routinely sliced open, with four goals from both the Ukrainian team and by Eintracht Frankfurt in Bundesliga last weekend.Die Roten Bullen’s players will be desperate to impress their new manager Marco Rose and avoid a third successive loss.Rose’s former team, on the other hand, looks like they mean business with Edin Terzic back at the helm. So far the only drop in form for Dortmund was the disastrous late collapse at home to Werder Bremen – the Millionaires squandered a two-goal lead with only one minute of normal play remaining to lose 3-2. Apart from that, it has been a faultless start from BVB, who have won each of their other four league games to sit level on points with Freiburg at the top of the Bundesliga heading into the weekend.5 – Marco #Rose was in charge for 46 competitive matches as coach of Borussia Dortmund last season and now meets his former club in his first match as coach of RB Leipzig – he has lost five of his past six competitive games against BVB (W1). Reunion. pic.twitter.com/HTWfHXWms8— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) September 8, 2022 Outside their domestic endevours, Terzic’s side ran out comfortable 3-0 winners against FC Copenhagen to kick-off their Champions League campaign in style.The Millionaires need to take one game at a time and ensure that they keep ahead of Bayern before the two sides meet at the Westfalenstadion next month – a win against their former boss on Saturday would not only ensure that objective remains on track for another week.The hosts’ roster is not something Rose can really be happy about. Up front, Timo Werner and Christopher Nkunku should continue as a strike partnership as they look to continue to gel together while it is a bit more gloomy in the midfield.In the early stages of last weekend’s defeat to Frankfurt, Leipzig lost Dani Olmo to a serious knee injury – and with the Spaniard facing at least six weeks on the sidelines, Rose could hand Emil Forsberg a rare start in order to provide some creativity. Lukas Klostermann and Youssouf Poulsen remain sidelined, too.##EDITORS_CHOICE##After being on the bench in midweek – Josko Gvardiol, David Raum and Benjamin Henrichs are all likely to return to the starting eleven.Dortmund also lack manpower. Giovanni Reyna could receive the nod coming in from the left flank, with Raphael Guerreiro afforded greater license to attack from left-back in order to provide natural width.Thorgan Hazard came off in the first half of BVB’s Champions League win against Copenhagen due to a hamstring injury, while Karim Adeyemi and Donyell Malen remain doubts, leaving BVB light in attack.BUNDESLIGA – ROUND 6Friday Werder Bremen – FC Augsburg 0-1 (0-0)/Demirovic 63/Saturday 16:30 Hoffenheim – FSV Mainz 0516:30 Bayern München – VfB Stuttgart16:30 Eintracht Frankfurt – VfL Wolfsburg16:30 Hertha BSC – Bayer 04 Leverkusen16:30 RB Leipzig – Borussia Dortmund19:30 FC Schalke 04 – VfL BochumSunday16:30 FC Koln – Union Berlin18:30 SC Freiburg – Borussia M’gladbach***odds are subject to change***
