Dortmund vs. Paderborn: Team News, Predicted Lineups, Live Stream & TV Info

The Black and Yellows may have dug themselves out of the mid-season rut that had them bottom of the table over the winter break, but Klopp's side still sit only six points from safety and will need to start picking up wins quickly to have any hope of stealing one of the remaining European qualification spots. 

On a more worrisome note, Andre Breitenreiter's side have struggled to pick points at all lately with just one win—a surprise 2-1 victory over Augsburg last week—in their last seven Bundesliga games. 

Date: Saturday, April 18

Time: 2:45 p.m. BST, 10:45 a.m. EDT

Venue: Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany

Television: Not available (UK only), Gol TV (U.S. only)

Streaming: Not available (UK only), Gol TV online (U.S. only)

Form

Dortmund	Paderborn
Monchengladbach - Loss	Augsburg - Win
Hoffenheim - Win	Hertha Berlin - Loss
Bayern Munich - Loss	Hoffenheim - Draw
Hannover - Win	Eintracht Frankfurt - Loss
Juventus - Loss	Bayer Leverkusen - Loss

Expected Lineups

Dortmund confirmed this week that Neven Subotic and Sebastian Kehl would not make Saturday's game, while Jakub Blaszczykowski, Sven Bender, Erik Durm, Kevin Grosskreutz and Marco Reus all trained individually and remained doubtful for the tie. Add that to the current injury list of Lukasz Piszczek, Nuri Sahin and Oliver Kirch and we have something of an injury crisis at Dortmund right now. 

Frank Augstein/Associated Press

As such, that would leave a back line of Marcel Schmelzer, Mats Hummels, Matthias Ginter and Sokratis Papastathopoulos, with Roman Weidenfeller in goal. 

In midfield, we may see a return to the startling XI for Milos Jojic alongside Ilkay Gundogan, with Kevin Kampl, Shinji Kagawa and Henrikh Mkhitaryan playing in front of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. 

The travelling side have their own injuries to worry about but should put out a squad not too dissimilar to the one we saw against Augsburg last weekend. 

Lukas Kruse will keep his spot in goal, behind a back four of Michael Heinloth, Rafa, Uwe Hunemeier and Florian Hartherz at left-back. Patrick Ziegler should remain in midfield as the anchor man, while Mario Vrancic and Marvin Bakalorz sit in front to form a midfield trio. 

The front three will therefore consist of Moritz Stoppelkamp on the left, Suleyman Koc on the right and Srdjan Lakic up front as the lone striker. 

Frank Augstein/Associated Press

Key Players

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

If the likes of Reus and Sahin are both out for Saturday's game, then Klopp will undoubtedly turn to his top goalscorer this season, Aubameyang, to win the day for Dortmund against Paderborn.

The Gabon striker has scored three goals in his last four games in all competitions, and he will be confident of adding to his tally against a lowly Bundesliga side this weekend.

Uwe Hunemeier 

The man who will be tasked with making sure that doesn't happen is central defender Hunemeier, who has consistently proven himself over the course of this season to be one of Paderborn's most effective players. 

Breitenreiter's side have the second-worst goalscoring record in the league this season, and any success they've managed to snatch from one week to the next has been built on their ability to defend and keep games tight. If they hope to do that on Saturday, they'll need this defender at the top of his game.

Odds

Dortmund: +1083

Draw: +593

Paderborn: -455

*Odds per OddsShark.com.