Line up all the opening matches from this week in the Champions League and there's no doubt Borussia Dortmund's trip to Napoli wins as the sexiest match-up. These two highly-skilled attacking sides should put on a great show on Wednesday at the San Paolo.
Napoli vs. Borussia Dortmund: Preview and TV schedule
Napoli hosts last season’s Champions League runner-up Dortmund in what should be the most exciting match of the week.
Lars Baron
With my luck, they’ll play to a scoreless draw ... but let’s hope not.
Dortmund have been scoring goals like it's going out of style in the Bundesliga, including an impressive 6-2 thumping of Hamburg in which both Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Robert Lewandowski had braces. Napoli held their place at the top of Serie A with their win over Atalanta.
Napoli are healthy, but Dortmund will be without Łukasz Piszczek and İlkay Gündoğan. Sebastian Kehl also picked up a foot injury in training that will keep him out for nearly two months.
Napoli injuries and suspensions
Out: None
Borussia Dortmund injuries and suspensions
Out: Sebastian Kehl (foot), Łukasz Piszczek (hip), İlkay Gündoğan (back).
Projected lineups
Napoli: Pepe Reina, Christian Maggio, Paolo Cannavaro, Raúl Albiol, Juan Zúñiga, Valon Behrami, Gökhan Inler, Jose Callegon, Marek Hamsik, Lorenzo Insigne, Gonzalo Higuaín.
Dortmund: Roman Weidenfeller, Kevin Grosskreutz, Neven Subotic, Mats Hummels, Marcel Schmelzer; Nuri Sahin, Sven Bender, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Marco Reus, Robert Lewandowski.
Match Date/Time: Wednesday, 8:45 p.m. local, 2:45 p.m. ET
Venue: Stadio San Paolo, Napoli, Italy
TV: DirecTV (U.S.), Sky Sports Red Button (U.K.), Sportsnet One (Canada), Sky Sport 1/2 (Germany), Sky Sport 1 (Italy)
Online: Fox Soccer 2 Go (U.S.)
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