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Dortmund Ace Bartra Ruled Out of Spurs Champions League Match With Abductor Strain

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Marc Bartra will miss Borussia Dortmund's Champions League clash with Tottenham after he failed to overcome an abductor strain.

Goal confirmed that the defender had not travelled with the rest of Peter Bosz's first-team squad to the UK for their opening group H match of the 2017/18 campaign, at Spurs' temporary Wembley home, on Wednesday.

Bartra was substituted in the opening 45 minutes of Die Borussen's 0-0 draw with Freiburg in last Saturday's Bundesliga encounter after he sustained the pulled muscle and, despite faint hopes that he may have been fit to feature, the 26-year-old will not play any part in the clash at Wembley.