Borussia Dortmund v Manchester City: live 44 min Schieber wriggles in to the box but could only beat two men not the three that was required to open up the goal. Perisic stings Hart's palms but routine for the goalkeeper. Dortmund on top just now. 42 min Rosicky has put Arsenal 1-0 up against Olympiakos. Yes, Rosicky. Yes, Arsenal leading. Everything you thought you knew is wrong. 40 min More give and go, one and two touch football from Dortmund. They really do look impressive on the ball. But City handling the pressure offered more than manfully as the clock ticks towards half time. 37 min Dortmund seem to carry slightly the greater goal threat but City well in it. After about their 50th corner they go close with only the impreessive dive of the goalkeeper denyign Tevez a headed goal. Oh, that and the offisde flag, too. Bah! 35 min The crowd urge Schmelzer to shoot in no uncertain terms. He ignores them though, and the ball is finally worked to Reus. Maybe Schmelzer knew more than them, as Reus cut inside and let flight with a stinging effort that just dipped wide of Hart's near post with the goalkeeper beaten. 33 min And we nearly had one ... a cracking, dipping effort from Dzeko requires Weidenfeller to muddy his knees. Difficult bounce in front of him but after a long period of inactivity he judged it perfectly. The swine. 32 min Not many goals elsewhere, either tonight, Arsenal still 0-0 though Real madrid are now 2-0 up against Ajax. Hart required to use his feet after a soft back pass from Maicon but he's up to it. If ever a game needed a goal... 30 min Dangerous free kick for Dortmund out on the left touchline. It's a proper up and under with bodies attacking the six yard box. Hart shows good hands though and just stands his ground to catch it. 29 min The Dinamo Zagreb and Dynamo Kiev match back under way. Perhaps someone found an organe ball after all. 28 min Hummels robs Dzeko and looks to pick out Rues between two City defenders. Asked too much in the end but the volume has been turned up again as the fans get involved. 25 min Very even so far with the ball shared evenly. Dortmund's turn to press and half a chance for Schieber in the box as a cross is lofted in for him to attack but Lescott did enough to put him off. A game is threatening to break out here now. 23 min Best move of the match by some distance. City workign the ball up to Nasri whose cute reverse pass set Dzeko free heading for the byline. His cut back was decent enough and beat the goalkeeper but Tevez was a yard and a half back off the play and was thus denied the chance to snaffle one up in front of an open goal. Promising at least. 21 min My continued apologies for a lack of pazzaz to this blog but, really, nothing, is, happening. Reus looks good for Dortmund and Gundogan just had a shot from distance that was blocked. Slim pickings, people. 19 min The Group A match between Dinamo Zagreb and Dynamo Kiev has been halted after around 11 minutes because of snow. 17 min Tevez looking for the run of Dzeko again. Dzeko offside, again. 15 min It isn't a bad game. In terms of the quality of the sides, anyway. Both teams comfortable on the ball. Tevez looking bright (even though he's being asked to do a shift in Germany for City). Just that it's being played betweent he boxes and no urgency from either side. 14 min Real Madrid have gone 1-0 up against Ajax, through Cristiano Ronaldo. The Europa League is within sight for City now. If they win here tonight. If that's not incentive to raise the tempo I don't know what is. 12 min First shot in anger. Kirch is on hand to get on to a loose ball on the edge of the City box after a cross is only half cleared. It was on target but Hart was well behind it and saves two-handed. 11 min Hold on to your hats, we've got some action ... Dzeko pulled back for offside when Tevez played him through. Rightly. That's your highlight so far. 09 min If you think I'm underselling you this match or being lazy ... Martin Tyler and Alan Smith in the Sky commentary box are currently discussing flight restrictions and airports. It's been that kind of game so far. 07 min The capacity 65,000 crowd continue to make themselves heard, and seen, jumping up and down like happy West Brom fans with springs on their shoes. Must be in a effort to keep warm (it looks very, very chilly out there) becuase there has been precious little to get excited about on the pitch just yet. 05 min Steady as she goes from both teams so far. Like a exhibition match or a friendly. Between two teams who know how to keep possession. Anyone would think there's not much riding on this match... 03 min Neat, deliberate passing from the Germans to take the ball up to City's box but a sea of blue shirts repel them this time. 02 min Early free kick for City out wide on the right is swung in from Barry, for the reward of a corner. It's very, very noisy inside the stadium. And it's not a Mancunian accent that's being heard. Corner comes to nothing but the ball is recycled by City who look comfortable on the ball from the start. 19.40 So Scott Sinclair is handed a rare start in a strong (ish) City side for tonight's Group D finale in Dortmund. Injuries have left City without a specialist left-back but defender Matija Nastasic comes back in alongside Joleon Lescott and Vincent Kompany. Group winners Dortmund are without dynamic midfielder Mario Gotze while prolific striker Robert Lewandowski is on the bench. 19.30 Team news: Borussia Dortmund: 1-Roman Weidenfeller; 21-Oliver Kirch, 15-Mats Hummels, 27-Felipe Santana, 29-Marcel Schmelzer; 19-Kevin Grosskreutz, 8-Ilkay Gundogan, 7-Moritz Leitner, 11-Marco Reus, 44-Ivan Perisic; 23-Julian Schieber Manchester City: 1-Joe Hart; 3-Maicon, 4-Vincent Kompany, 6-Joleon Lescott, 33-Matija Nastasic; 11-Scott Sinclair, 18-Gareth Barry; 8-Samir Nasri, 14-Javi Garcia; 10-Edin Dzeko, 32-Carlos Tevez Referee: Milorad Mazic (Serbia) 19.25 Welcome to tonight's live blog, as Manchester City fight for the right to, maybe, hopefully get a ticket to places like Plovdiv after Christmas in the Europa League. If Real Madrid do them a favour. The stakes, people, are about as high as a teetotal born again Christian taking a tour of the Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam. But there's more ... it might even be worth City actually not claiming that prize so boobie that Gazza was recently seen wearing a fake plastic version at a mate's stag night. Because for all that Roberto Mancini talks about wanting to carry on in Europe and try and win its second best gong, would that actually be a distraction to retaining their league title? See, there is intrigue in this match after all. But wait, there's still more ... City also face the ignominy of posting the worst-ever record of any English club in the Champions League group stages if they lose to Borussia Dortmund tonight. Blackburn Rovers currently hold that dubious distinction having finished bottom of their group with just four points during the 1995-96 season - when team-mates Graeme Le Saux and David Batty infamously did this during a 3-0 defeat against Spartak Moscow. Blackburn won just once, against Norwegian champions Rosenborg, before being eliminated. City have yet to win in Group D and are currently bottom with three points, but a victory against Dortmund in Germany on could secure the consolation of a place in the Europa League. And so we return full circle. A circle that ends on Channel Five. On a Thursday. With Stan Collymore. Stay with us, people, it's going to be some ride. So how is Mancini going to approach this? Read these tub-thumping rabble-rousing pre-match press conference words and judge for yourself: Even though we can't go through to the second stage of the Champions League, it is important we try to stay in the Europa League.