Today at 2:45 p.m. ET, Marseille and Borussia Dortmund go head-to-head in UEFA Champions League action live from Stade Velodrome in France. The game can be live streamed here.
Borussia Dortmund knows this game can make-or-break its season following a loss to Bayer Leverkusen, but it enters plagued by injury as it looks to beat already-eliminated Marseille. Dortmund needs to match the result of Napoli against Arsenal.
Marseille just replaced Elie Baup with interim coach Jose Anigo who is the director of sport for them, and will look to try and get the team its first point of the competition.
"Every game is hard for us right now," Anigo told ESPN. "The fixture list is anything but a gift, but right now we've got to look at what we can do and not look at our opponents. We want to leave the group with our heads held high. It may not be the easiest of games, but it could be the chance for us to rediscover our will and desire. What will be more important to see is the way the players react, more so than the result."
Coach Jurgen Klopp hopes that his injury-riddled team will bring his team a win as Sven Bender and Nuri Sahin are both sidelined with injuries. The team is also without Mats Hummels, Neven Subotic, Ilkay Gundogan and Marcel Schmelzer while Manuel Friedrich is ineligible.
"Our options have reduced further," said Klopp, who may have to turn to 19-year-old Koray Gunter and 18-year-old Marian Sarr to fill the gaps at the back and may have captain Sebastian Kehl starting at the heart of the defense, according to ESPN. "You get creative in an emergency. Things are not necessarily going that well for us."
Dortmund looks to keep its hopes alive while Marseille looks for its first point in the competition today.
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