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Should Gonzalo Castro Relegate Shinji Kagawa to Borussia Dortmund's Bench?

Without a lot of injury problems, Borussia Dortmund head coach Thomas Tuchel's current first-choice XI largely picks itself.

Lukasz Piszczek has beaten out Matthias Ginter at right-back, while Sokratis Papastathopoulos pairs up with Mats Hummels in central defence by default—Sven Bender is still not available because of a knee injury.

Every other spot in the Black and Yellows' lineup is pretty much set in stone; Roman Burki, Marcel Schmelzer, Julian Weigl, Ilkay Gundogan, Marco Reus, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang all more or less have a cast-iron guarantee to start.

The one spot that's up for grabs seems to be in Dortmund's midfield triangle, where Shinji Kagawa and Gonzalo Castro fight a duel.