Borussia Dortmund vs Lazio Preview: How to Watch on TV, Live Stream, Kick Off Time & Team News

German side Borussia Dortmund host Serie A's Lazio on Wednesday evening in a match which could decide the winner of Group F.

Lucien Favre's Dortmund top the group four games into the competition despite recording a loss on the opening week against Lazio. BVB haven't conceded a Champions League goal since the Eagles knocked three past them in October but come into the contest off the back of a surprising defeat to lowly Koln.

Lazio are yet to lose in this season's Champions League but trail Dortmund by a single point. Simone Inzaghi's side have had their complications with COVID-19 tests in Europe this season but are three points away from confirming a last 16 spot in the competition for the first time since 2000.

Where to Watch

When Is Kick Off? Wednesday 2 December
What Time Is Kick Off? 20:00 (GMT)
Where Is it Played? Signal Iduna Park
TV Channel/Live Stream? BT Sport Extra 3 (UK), fuboTV (US)
Referee? Antonio Mateu Lahoz

Team News

Alongside the absence of Real Madrid loanee Reinier after a positive COVID-19 test, Dortmund have been robbed of a number of full backs going into Wednesday's clash. The instrumental Raphael Guerreiro is a major doubt after picking up a knock against Club Brugge in last week's European assignment and first choice right back Thomas Meunier was forced off during Saturday's Bundesliga outing with a muscle injury.

Back-up left backs Nico Schulz and Marcel Schmelzer are unlikely to be available as they continue to recover while Dan-Axel Zagadou is still in the midst of an arduous recovery.

Assuming Lazio's confusing spate of COVID-19 tests doesn't strike again ahead of a Champions League outing, their only absentees are Luiz Felipe and Vedat Muriqi.

Predicted Lineups

Borussia Dortmund: Burki; Morey, Hummels, Akanji, Passlack; Witsel, Bellingham; Sancho, Reus, Hazard; Haaland.

Lazio: Strakosha; Patric, Acerbi, Radu; Lazzari, Milinkovic-Savic, Lucas, Luis Alberto, Fares; Correa, Immobile.

Recent Form

For Favre's Dortmund this has been a season of all or nothing. In nine of their ten victories across all competitions this season, Dortmund have kept a clean sheet. But they've lost the other five matches.

Since that reverse against Lazio, Favre has reverted to a 4-2-3-1 formation with largely positive results. That is until Koln recorded their first Bundesliga victory for 267 days at Dortmund's expense on Saturday.

Lazio themselves were on the end of a surprising home defeat on the weekend, losing 3-1 to Udinese. The Eagles overcame a sticky start to the campaign to embark upon an eight-game unbeaten run sparked by that victory against Dortmund which ended on Sunday.

Inzaghi has worked wonders on a limited budget over the past four years to just have Lazio back in the Champions League group stages after more than a decade away. However, amid a constant churn of injuries and positive tests, Lazio's current mid-table standing in Serie A reflects their mediocre underlying numbers so far this season.

Here's how each side has fared in their last five outings.

Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Koln (28/11)
Borussia Dortmund 3-0 Club Brugge (24/11)
Hertha BSC 2-5 Borussia Dortmund (21/11)
Borussia Dortmund 2-3 Bayern Munich (7/11)
Club Brugge 0-3 Borussia Dortmund (4/11)

Lazio

Lazio 1-3 Udinese (29/11)
Lazio 3-1 Zenit Saint Petersburg (24/11)
Crotone 0-2 Lazio (21/11)
Lazio 1-1 Juventus (8/11)
Zenit Saint Petersburg 1-1 Lazio (4/11)

Prediction

Dortmund's Golden Boy Erling Haaland produced one of the misses of the season at the weekend, but has rarely shown such wastefulness elsewhere. The Norwegian striker goes into matchday four of the Champions League as top scorer with six goals, just one fewer than the entire Lazio squad put together.

BVB can win the group on Wednesday while Lazio would be top by two points with victory. Dortmund haven't drawn a single game in any competition all season but they might pick up their first here.

Prediction: Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Lazio