Borussia Dortmund vs. Frankfurt: Team News, Preview, Live Stream & TV Info

Borussia Dortmund return to Bundesliga action and the optimistic pursuit of European football when they welcome Eintracht Frankfurt to the Westfalenstadion on Saturday afternoon. 

Jurgen Klopp's side rallied around their leader for his final few games before the end of the season with a 3-0 win over Paderborn last weekend, but the Eagles will be a much tougher test for the recently turned optimistic side. 

Thomas Schaaf's team sit on equal points with their upcoming Black and Yellow hosts, and despite their failure to pick up a single victory in their last four games they'll be hell-bent on sticking a dagger into the side of Dortmund's hopes for the remainder of the season. 

Date: Saturday, April 24

Time: 2:30 p.m. BST, 10:30 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)

Dortmund	Frankfurt
Paderborn - Win	Gladbach - Draw
Gladbach - Defeat	Bayern Munich - Defeat
Bayern Munich - Defeat	Hannover - Draw
Hannover - Win	Stuttgart - Defeat
Cologne - Draw	Paderborn - Win

Expected Lineups

With Marco Reus doubtful for Saturday's game and Nuri Sahin still out of action, we should see Dortmund stick with a basic formation but change a few individual things. 

In defence, we should see Erik Durm and Marcel Schmelzer at right- and left-back, respectively, while Neven Subotic and Sokratis Papastathopoulos take up the central roles in front of Roman Weidenfeller's goalmouth. 

The midfield should therefore have Sven Bender and Ilkay Gundogan as the central partnership, with Henrikh Mkhitaryan on the left, Kevin Kampl on the right and Shinji Kagawa through the middle. 

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will most likely keep his spot up front. 

Schaaf should stick with a basic 4-4-2, which will have Timothy Chandler at right-back, Aleksandar Ignjovski at left-back and Alexander Madlung and Carlos Zambrano as the central defensive partnership. 

The midfield four from right to left will most likely be Stefan Aigner, Makoto Hasebe, Marc Stendera and Sonny Kittel while Haris Seferovic and Nelson Valdez play as the striker partnership.

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Key Players

Shinji Kagawa

With Marco Reus most likely rested for the DFB Pokal clash with Bayern next week, the responsibility for scoring and creating goals will most likely fall upon Kagawa on Saturday. 

The Japanese international is far from the most conclusive player at the club right now, but as he showed against Paderborn last weekend, he does have a talent for showing up when it counts with either a goal or an assist. 

Haris Seferovic 

For Frankfurt, we can look no further than Seferovic, while Alexander Meier still recovers from injury, as the lone goalscorer to keep Dortmund's back line busy throughout the game. 

The 23-year-old Swiss international has scored eight goals and created five assists for his side this season, according to Whoscored, and may just add to such a tally on Saturday. 

Odds (Per Odds Shark)

Dortmund: -227

Draw: +348

Frankfurt: +668