It is already well into Tuesday, in the parts of the world where most of you will be reading this, so thus it is time to start previewing Borussia Dortmund vs Werder Bremen.
Yes, you still have that last slate of international fixtures to come, later on today/tonight, but we’ll just have to wait and see if any of these matches have consequence on the Dortmund injury/fitness situation, ahead of the Friday night fixture.
Borussia Dortmund vs Werder Bremen FYIs
Kickoff: Fri. Oct 9, 8:30pm, Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany
Bundesliga Form, Standings: Borussia Dortmund WWWW 1st, 12 pts Werder Bremen LWDW 8th, 7 pts
BVB Detailed Injury List: go here
Google Result Probability: Borussia Dortmund win 70% Draw 17% Werder Bremen win 13%
This is the exact moment Schlotterbeck hurt his ankle during a ‘fun competitive drill’ in the warm-up before the final training session in Herzogenaurach. The players had to dribble around slalom poles in four different groups. Schlotterbeck lost control of the ball and veered into another group, where Finn Jeltsch was dribbling at the time. Schlotterbeck twisted his ankle, went down and grabbed his right ankle. He left the training session and underwent an MRI scan [📸 @BILD]
— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) September 30, 2026
Dortmund Team News
If so, we’ll just update accordingly.
Let’s start with center back Nico Schlotterbeck, who tore his ankle up while training with Germany five days ago. The embedded tweet above explains pretty much everything going on with him right now.
We’re still awaiting a specific update on the nature and the extend of his injury, but suffice it to say, he’s doubtful, at the very least, for this weekend.
Elsewhere FiIippo Mane has been battling a muscle strain in his right thigh, but he could be in contention to feature here.
And then finally, Emre Can and Giannis Konstantelias remain sidelined as long-term ACL injury absentees.
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