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Good afternoon and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE text coverage of Borussia Dortmund's Bundesliga visit to Bochum. Stay tuned right here for all the updates, with kick off at 2.30pm BST.

Bundesliga / Matchday 15
Vonovia Ruhrstadion / 11.12.2021
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Marcus Foley

Updated 11/12/2021 at 16:25 GMT


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Quarter of an hour to kick off.
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The Revierdeby sees second place Dortmund look to make amends for their 3-2 defeat to title rivals Bayern Munich last week, and a win here could see them go within a point of Bayern, but the league leaders play Mainz today and should win to retain their margin. Bochum sit tenth meanwhile, and could go as high as seventh should they snatch an unlikely win.
14:00
With half an hour to kick off, here are the teams for those who missed them:
Bochum: Riemann, Stafylidis, Masovic, Leitsch, Soares, Losilla, Antwi-Adjej, Pantovic, Rexhbecaj, Holtmann, Polter.
BVB: Kobel, Meunier, Hummels, Zagadou, Schulz, Dahoud, Can, Bellingham, Reus, Wolf, Haaland.
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The visitors' system, however, can be quite fluid. It should resemble more of a 4-3-3 to accommodate both Erling Haaland as a central striker, looking to use his pace to get in behind and stretch the home defence in the channels. That then leaves space for Marco Reus to roam as the number 10, off the left flank with Mahmoud Dahoud and Jude Bellingham either side of Emre Can. Marius Wolf lines up on the right flank to complete the engine room. In defence, Thomas Meunier keeps his place at right-back, but Nico Schulz replaces Raphael Guerreiro on the left. Dan-Axel Zagadou partners Mats Hummels in the middle, ahead of Gregor Korbel.
13:36
It'll be quite a rigid and structured 4-1-4-1 shape for Bochum today, that sees goalkeeper Manuel Riemann protected by a back four of Kostas Stafylidis and Danilo Soares at full-back, sandwiching Maxim Leitsch and Erhan Masovic in the centre of defence. Anthony Losilla holds as the all-action single pivot, with Elvis Rexhbecaj and Milos Pantovic given more room to roam ahead of him. Sebastian Polter leads the line as the target man, flanked by Gerrit Holtmann and Chris Antwi-Adjej.
13:35
Kowalski, analysis!
13:35
And here are the hosts!
13:34
Whilst we wait for the home side's line-up to properly analyse and dissect the teams, here's Fabrizio Romano's latest update on Dortmund's star man Erling Haaland's future.
13:32
We're just waiting on the Bochum line-up...
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Here are the visitors...
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Team news in just a moment...