After last night's slaughter of Barcelona at the hands of Bayern Munich, Spanish football is quickly given the chance to redeem itself in the second of this week's Champions League semi-final first legs to be staged in Germany. Borussia Dortmund's magnificent Westfalenstadion is the venue for a match in which Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund entertain Jose Mourinho's Real Madrid.
With both sides a distant second in their respective domestic leagues, we could be forgiven for expecting Dortmund to dish out a repeat of last night's schooling, but such logic doesn't tend to apply to football and the smart money seems to be on Real Madrid to progress over two legs, with many pundits tipping them to win both legs comfortably.
Having controversially edged their way past Malaga by the skin of their teeth in the quarter-finals, Borussia Dortmund's preparation for this match has been seriously unsettled by the leaking of the news that their star player Mario Goetze is off their biggest rivals Bayern Munich at the end of the season. You can read all about that in this report from Sid Lowe. When you're finished that, you could do a lot worse than read this great piece by Marcus Christenson on how Dortmund have come from the brink of financial armageddon in 2005 to being the football hipster's Champions League semi-final contestant of choice.
Still want more? You might want to see what Sid had to say for himself when facing down our readers' interrogatory projectiles in this afternoon's webchat, then peruse this gallery of Borussia Dortmund's loveable manager the magnificent Mr Klopp. Finally, get thee to a nearby tactics website named to see how our tactics expert Michael Cox thinks tonight's match will unfold.
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