17.12.2010
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The Preview!

'Ain't no mountain high enough' - Eintracht will host Borussia Dortmund tomorrow (kick off at 15.30h CET), the current top Bundesliga team who seem unbeatable in recent weeks. They have won all of their 8 Bundesliga away games so far and are table leaders - 11 points clear of second ranked Bayer Leverkusen!

Dortmund dropped out of the Europa League on Wednesday with a 2-2 draw away to Sevilla FC. Eintracht manager Skibbe sees the big challenge but also said: 'Fear does not get you far.' It will be an interesting and hopefully successful last league game in 2010.

THE PREVIEW

Possible Line Ups

EINTRACHT: Nikolov – Jung, Clark, Vasoski, Köhler – Schwegler, Meier – Ochs, Caio, Altintop – Gekas.

DORTMUND: Weidenfeller – Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels, Schmelzer – Bender, Sahin – Kuba, Kagawa, Götze – Barrios.

Attendance

The Commerzbank Arena is sold out: 51,500 will see the last home game of Eintracht in 2010 live at the ground.

Colours

The Eagles will play in traditional black and red, Dortmund in yellow.

TV

German Pay TV channel Sky will show the game live which is also broadcasted globally on various international Bundesliga TV stations. To find out if a channel in your country will cover the game click HERE.

English Live Commentary

Eintracht.de will as always this season provide an in game LIVE English text commentary with all goals, shots, fouls, offsides, substitutions and so on. You will find the updates from kick off onwards (Sat @ 15.30h CET) by clicking HERE.

Weather

The forecast announced a sunny day with some clouds in Frankfurt on Saturday. Temperature highs are at around -5 Celsius.

Last Season

Eintracht gained four points from the two games against Borussia last season: Amanatidis scored during the 1-1 draw at home, the 3-2 win away was the first time Eintracht grabbed all points in Dortmund for over 16 years. Koehler, Jung (with his first ever in the Bundesliga) and Meier scored the historic goals.

All Time Record

It is the 77th Bundesliga fixture between Eintracht and Borussia. From 38 meetings in Frankfurt between the two teams Eintracht won 19, lost 10 and drew 9.

Winter Break

Next Wednesday Eintracht will travel to Aachen where they will play their last competitive match in 2010: the German DFB Cup game against Alemannia Aachen in the round of the last 16. After the game there will be a Christmas holiday up until the 02nd of January when Eintracht will participate in the indoor tournament ‘Licher Hessen Cup 2011’ in Frankfurt.

Training Camp in Turkey

From the 03rd until the 10th of January Eintracht will hold a training camp in Belek/Turkey and prepare for the second leg of the Bundesliga season. They will also join the ‘Antaly Cup’ in Kundu alongside 1.FC Köln, Antalyaspor and the iranian club Penepolis.