Deprived of the cheers of his fans in the "Yellow Wall", Borussia Dortmund is challenging in the shadow of the stands silence, his neighbor and rivals Schalke today, Saturday, at the summit of the twenty-sixth stage of the German Football League, whose wheel is back in circulation after a two-month hiatus due to the emerging Corona virus.
But its promising English players, Gaydon Sancho and Norwegian Erling Halland, hope to make noise at Signal Iduna Park and tame the guests with the goal of winning the three points and staying close to leaders Bayern Munich by four points, reviving hopes of embracing the title again and ending the control of the Bavarian club in the seven years Last.
Usually, the "Ruhr derby" between "zero" and "blue" separated by only 30 km, is a match that inflames the region twice in every season of the Bundesliga. The two clubs are considered strongholds of German football and play a major role in the local popular culture: the average public presence in Dortmund is around 80,000 spectators, and 61,000 in Schalke.
But this year, behind closed doors and with health protocol restrictions due to the emerging Corona virus, it will be "the most unusual derby in history," according to Sebastian Kiel, the assistant coach of Borussia Dortmund and his former player.
 After stopping for two months, the players missed the rhythm of the matches, and they did not play any friendly match to renew the harmony between them. The question arises as to how these young people, especially the 19-year-olds, will appear in Dortmund Sancho (14 goals and 16 assists in 25 games this season) and Halland scored nine goals in the first eight games in Germany, after a long isolation period?
No one will be able to answer this question before the beep of the 26th stage of the Bundesliga.
The only unified issue is that Borussia Dortmund will play in the absence of four important players - captain and playmaker Marco Royce, Belgian midfielders Axel Witsel, Emery Jean and French defender Dan-Axel Zagado due to injury.
And behind the locked doors, Porosin will be deprived of his inexhaustible source of energy: more than 80,000 fans at Signal Iduna Park, including 24,000 in the famous Southern Amphitheater known as the "Yellow Wall".
"Without my onlookers, my path hurts the heart," said Michael Zork, sports director of Dortmund. "Without them, we will need more internal dynamics and personal stimulation."
For Dortmund, it was better to run this derby before the league stopped last March because the club was at its highest levels, especially since last January, and he signed with Halland and Jean, where he achieved seven wins in eight league matches, and scored 27 goals. Schalke, in contrast, was experiencing a real nightmare by failing to win seven consecutive games.

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