English teenager Jude Bellingham is set to captain Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League for the first time after both Marco Reus and Mats Hummels were ruled out.
Reus and Hummels were in doubt for Wednesday’s clash with Sevilla and did not fly with the team to Spain on Tuesday.
Reus failed to recover in time from an ankle injury sustained against derby rivals Schalke in September, while Hummels will miss his second consecutive game with an illness.
Bellingham, 19, was named in Dortmund’s three-man leadership group in the off season and led his team onto the field for the first time in their 3-2 loss at Cologne on Saturday.
Speaking after the game, Bellingham told the Bundesliga website the honour was “a dream come true.”
“When I first signed for this club, it’s something that I never thought possible – until I met the players.
“(Then) I realised that they could give me the belief to one day be captain.”
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