Borussia Dortmund entertain neighbors Paderborn on matchday 3. The hosts extended their perfect league start to the Bundesliga season with a narrow win over Villarreal in the Champions League. Meanwhile, Paderborn are yet to score on their return to the top-flight league.
Konstantinos Karetsas was discharged from the hospital after Tuesday's incident, but this game came too early for him. Ethan Nwaneri gets his first start in Niko Kovac's midfield for the Westphalian affair. Nico Schlotterbeck is also back in the lineup for the very first time.
Paderborn's striker Steffen Tigges starts on the bench in his return to his former club Dortmund. At the other end, goalkeeper Nahuel Noll hopes to continue his brilliant start to the campaign.
Here are the lineups as Borussia Dortmund aim to continue their perfect Bundesliga start.
BVB: Kobel; Gadou, Anton, Schlotterbeck ©; Ryerson, Veerman, Bellingham, Svensson; Nwaneri; Guirassy, Fabio Silva

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BVB has never lost a competitive match against SC Paderborn: There have been two DFB-Pokal clashes, both of which saw the Black and Yellows advance to the next round. In the Bundesliga, Borussia has won two matches so far, with two others ending in draws. The most memorable encounter to date was the last Bundesliga match between the two sides at the end of May 2020. In that COVID-19-related match played behind closed doors in Paderborn, the Black and Yellows had a weak first half but stepped up their game after the break. All seven goals in the 6-1 victory came in the second half. Jadon Sancho (3), Thorgan Hazard, Achraf Hakimi, and Marcel Schmelzer—scoring his final professional goal—found the back of the net for BVB.
Best Start in Four Years With six points from two games, BVB has made its strongest start to the season in four years.
Sharp-shooting forwardSerhou Guirassy got on the scoresheet in Sinsheim with the goal that made it 1–2. The forward has been involved in three of BVB's five Bundesliga goals this season and has scored in four consecutive matches across both seasons.
Paderborn, a newly promoted team struggling to find its footing, arrives at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK with one point and still no goals scored. That said, the East Westphalians have already registered 23 shots on goal.
Milestone Within ReachBVB has achieved three wins to start the Bundesliga season only four times in its history (most recently in 2015–16). Now this milestone is once again within reach for the Black and Yellows.

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The opening night of Week 1 high school football action is in the books.
And the action continues with a few other Greater Lansing teams in action Friday, Aug. 28. Follow along for updates as Leslie, Stockbridge, Pewamo-Westphalia, Fowler, Olivet and others get their seasons started.
As you check those scores, be sure to look at our coverage from Thursday, Aug. 27 action below.

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According to meczyki.pl, Borussia Dortmund's chief scout Bastian Schulz was conducting some research in the Polish topflight last week.
Schulz attended Legia Warsaw's 3-1 victory over Zagłębie Lubin on Sunday to observe attacking midfielder Marcel Regula.
Regula's employer confirmed to the Polish sports portal that the Westphalian giants are intrigued by the 19-year-old talent.
Meanwhile, Sky Germany also reported several days ago that fellow Bundesliga side 1.FC Köln were also keen to sign the youngster.
It's clear that if Borussia Dortmund goes ahead with the deal for the midfielder, Köln won't be able to compete financially.

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While it has been a surprisingly slow start on the transfer front to date, Borussia Dortmund's summer spending is apparently not finished.
In a media briefing this morning, Tuesday 14 July, BVB sporting director Lars Ricken outlined the Westphalian club's rough plans.
It's been written often enough that Schlotterbeck is gone, and Guirassy, Nmecha, and Ryerson too – no, they're all here.
“I think that's extremely important,” the 50-year-old explained, before remarking on their frustration regarding recruiting players.
"Of course not satisfied with that [our lack of signings]. We want to make one, two, three more really good transfers.

A probe into suspected ticket and hospitality violations at Euro 2024 saw the German FA’s offices raided by investigators on Wednesday, it has been reported.
According to German newspaper Bild, the Deutscher Fussball Bund (DFB, the German FA) was visited as part of nationwide searches, prompted by investigations into a German national, a French national, and others.
Prosecutors in Bochum and the criminal office of North Rhine-Westphalia issued a joint-statement, saying searches were taking place in several locations around Germany, although the DFB’s offices were not mentioned.
Per Bild, the case relates to hotel invitations and several thousand tickets, which might have been illegally allocated to preferred guests ahead of Euro 2024, which was hosted by Germany and took place in 10 cities.
The German national, at the time a municipal employee from the host city of Gelsenkirchen, was suspected to have received tickets, travel and hotel benefits worth $2,736.

A German politician has said the German Cup final between Bayern Munich and VfB Stuttgart should have been abandoned after fans from both camps made use of large amounts of pyrotechnics during the second half.
The May 23 match in Berlin's Olympic Stadium was halted for a few minutes due to the smoke but it was then completed, with Bayern winning 3-0. Munich and Stuttgart fans had set off the pyrotechnics after chants against the domestic federation DFB.
Herbert Reul, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, said told Der Sgiegel magazine he was “stunned” that referee Sven Jablonski allowed the match to continue.
“I would have been in favour of calling off the match because some people only understand in this way that they have crossed a line,” Reul said.
Reul was speaking ahead of Wednesday's start of a conference of interior ministers from the 16 German states, with safety and security at football matches part of the agenda. Der Spiegel said that concrete measures are not named.