Dortmund – Rennes Prediction & Picks (03.08.2018)

This Friday the German team of Borussia Dortmund continues its preparation stage and so this Friday at the Cashpoint-Arena in Altach in Austria will face the French cast of Stade Rennes, in friendly game.

Borussia Dortmund:

The directed by Lucien Favre comes from making a successful tour of the United States especially in its presentation in the International Champions Cup where they beat Manchester City 1-0 and Liverpool 3-1, while in their last game against Benfica lost by the way of penalties but in the 90 minutes was tied to two goals.

And after that, now the Negros and Amarillos travel to Austria for their last friendlies and reach the point for the debut in the German Bundesliga, and this Friday they run into a Rennes from France and the best thing for Favre is that he can count on the players who were in the 2018 World Cup Russia as the cases of Marco Reus, Lukasz Piszczek, Thomas Delaney, Shinji Kagawa, Manuel Akanji, Raphael Guerreiro and Roman Burki who will surely have a few minutes; while the new signings such as Achraf Hakimi, Abdou Diallo, Marius Wolf and Marwin Hitz will try to impress the technical team to earn a place in the first team.

Rennes:

On the other hand, those led by Sabri Lamouchi on Friday close their preparation stage whenever Ligue 1 starts next weekend.

The French team comes from defeating a team with history in English football as Everton who defeated 4-1 and thus left behind the defeats against Salzburg and Anderlecht, so this Friday wants to close the preparation with a good result and get motivated to debut in Ligue 1 also for his presentation in the UEFA Europa League, remembering that this right was won after finishing in fifth place in the previous season.

Possible alignments:

Borussia Dortmund: Hitz; Hakimi, Akanji, Diallo, Schmelzer; Delaney, Wolf, Reus, Dahoud, Pulisic; Philipp.

Rennes: Koubek; Traore, Gelin, Mexer, Baal; Lea-Siliki, Andre, Zeffane, Grenier, Bourigeaud; Siebatcheu.