Borussia Dortmund vs Ulsan HD Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup | Group Stage

by Alex Lawes · June 23 2025, 01:32

Updated June 24 2025, 13:24

Borussia Dortmund vs Ulsan HD Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2025 FIFA Club World Cup | Group Stage

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Borussia Dortmund were involved in an enthralling encounter against the Mamelodi Sundowns the other day as they now take on Ulsan Hyundai in their final group game.

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How to watch on TV & online: UK – DAZN & Channel 5 / US – DAZN

Borussia Dortmund team news: Jobe to start

Jobe Bellingham was brought into the starting eleven the other day and scored on his first start so the Englishman is expected to keep his place. They had to leave the likes of Nico Schlotterbeck, Salih Ozcan and Emre Can out due to injury.

Predicted XI (3-4-1-2): Kobel; Sule, Anton, Bensebaini; Couto, Nmecha, Gross, Svensson; Bellingham; Brandt, Guirassy

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Ulsan HD team news: Nothing new

Having suffered back-to-back defeats and eliminated from the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, the South Koreans may well make a few changes for this game in which they have no fresh injury issues or suspension concerns.

Predicted XI (3-5-2): Cho; Trojak, Kim, JI. Lee; Kang, Ko, Bojanic, JH. Lee, Ludwigson; Um, Erick Farias

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Key stats

This is the first FIFA competition match between teams from Germany and Korea Republic.
This is Dortmund’s first FIFA competition match against a club from Asia and Ulsan’s first against a European team.
Dortmund are unbeaten in their last nine competitive matches, recording seven wins and two draws (W7 D2 L0).
Ulsan have lost all their previous six FIFA club competition matches.
A total of 23 goals have been scored in Ulsan’s previous six FIFA club competition matches.
Serhou Guirassy has scored 14 times in 16 competitive outings for Dortmund against non-German opposition since the start of 2024/25.
Serhou Guirassy has scored ten goals in his last eight appearances for Dortmund in all competitions.
Ulsan’s Jung Woo-young, Kim Young-gwon, and Jo Hyeon-woo all played when Korea Republic defeated Germany 2-0 in the group stage at the FIFA World Cup in 2018. Kim Young-gwon scored the opening goal in the game. Dortmund’s Niklas Süle and Julian Brandt both made an appearance for the Germans in the match.
Ulsan winger Lee Chung-yong played in the German second division for Dortmund’s near-neighbours Bochum in 2018/19 and 2019/20.

Borussia Dortmund vs Ulsan HD prediction

Borussia Dortmund turned their season around in the Bundesliga thanks to the appointment of Niko Kovac. It is therefore quite surprising that their performances have been underwhelming in this competition. They shared a goalless draw against Fluminense before then having to come from behind to defeat the Mamelodi Sundowns.

They now face an Ulsan Hyundai side that have appeared leggy and laboured in their FIFA Club World Cup campaign thus far. The South Koreans began their tournament with a 1-0 loss to the aforementioned Sundowns before leading 2-1 at half-time against Fluminense and then going on to lose 4-2 to the Brazilians.

Borussia Dortmund will be expected to seal qualification for the knockout stages with a comfortable and potentially entertaining victory against Ulsan in their final group game.