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Jürgen Klopp is forced to shuffle his pack and counts "on the help of the fans"

[5.02.] It is quite possible that the fans have to wait a bit to see some goals on Sunday. Since Tamas Hajnal joined Borussia Dortmund, the Hungarian has been involved in all of the goals they scored against Eintracht Frankfurt. But Jürgen Klopp is not intending to field Hajnal, at least not from the start.

Aerial duel between Lucas Barrios and Maik Franz.

And he has good and understandable reasons to ignore the stats that say that of the last seven goals against Eintracht, Tamas Hajnal has set up six and scored one. "Given these numbers, I may want to give it a thought, after all," said Klopp with smiling eyes. In the build up to the Bundesliga match he confirmed that his playmaker "is doing better" than two or three weeks ago and that "he is in good shape in some areas", but also that he "lacks match practice." Hajnal will get his match practice, though not as a starter ("It wouldn´t do him any good"), but with a brief appearance that "could be a bit longer than in Stuttgart."

So BVB will start without Tamas Hajnal - and most probably also without Jakub "Kuba" Blaszczykowski. The BVB boss hasn´t given up hope completely that Kuba could "somehow make it", but the Polish player has been suffering from a strained groin and it looks very unlikely that he´s going to be fit to play. One of many alternatives would be the return of Mohamed Zidan who last trained with BVB on 20 December before joining the Egyptian national team. "He surely didn´t practice less there than if he would have stayed here with us," said Klopp.

Mohamed Zidan (centre) scored the Dortmund goal in the first game this season (1-1) after being set up by Tamas Hajnal (second from left).

But the BVB coach will have Lucas Barrios ("dead leg", sat out training on Wednesday and Thursday) as well as Felipe Santana available against Eintracht, who "are in a similar situation. They are playing a good season, but lost the last game and want to get back on track." For Klopp, the return of Michael Skibbe and Eddie Boekamp will give the game even more appeal: "Two Dortmund dinosaurs who want to pick up a win here."

But BVB also want to win on Sunday. An analysis of the Stuttgart game was made on Thursday and brought to light the following points: "For 60 minutes, VfB showed more desire. This time we want to show this kind of commitment. And to achieve this, we need the help of the fans."