Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund will be without their four injured defenders Nico Schlotterbeck, Niklas Süle, Emre Can and Filippo Mané for the top match at fifth-placed RB Leipzig. They had already missed the 2-0 win in the Champions League play-off first leg against Atalanta Bergamo on Tuesday.
Schlotterbeck, who is suffering from muscular problems, is training and feeling well, said coach Niko Kovac at the press conference ahead of the game in Leipzig on Saturday (18:30/Sky), "but we have to be sensible, it's a precautionary measure." Against Bergamo, 18-year-old debutant Luca Reggiani, Waldemar Anton and Ramy Bensebaini formed the back three throughout - and did not concede a goal.
