Champions League
No wonder of Dortmund – BVB left despite victory against Barcelona
Borussia Dortmund strikes FC Barcelona in his own stadium – and still leaves the Champions League. After all, the morality of the Kovac team was right.
Miracle missed, moral won for the Bundesliga end sprint: Last year finalist Borussia Dortmund said goodbye to the Champions League in the quarter-finals. In the second leg on Tuesday, BVB Hansi Flicks FC Barcelona added the first defeat this year thanks to an unleashed Serhou Guirassy in the 3-1 (1-0). The team of coach Niko Kovac was no longer able to make up for the devastating 0: 4 from the first leg a week ago.
A Guirassy three-ply pack (11th minute, penalty/49./76.) Was too little for progress. Guirassy thus shot his hits eleven, twelve and thirteen in the ongoing competition – club record. Even Erling Haaland and the current Barça scorer Robert Lewandowski had not achieved this brand.
An own goal of Ramy Bensebaini (54.) took the force to the Dortmund storm run in the second half. Despite the first defeat, Barcelona meets BVB in the semifinals for FC Bayern or Inter Milan.
In the last five games of the season in the Bundesliga, it will be shown in the last five season in the Bundesliga whether the Dortmund will have to wait for at least 17 months. On Easter Sunday, the start -up of the table night against the direct competitor Borussia Mönchengladbach continues.
BVB back to the triple chain and much stronger
Six days after the disastrous appearance in Barcelona, after an out -of -the -two defensive performance, Kovac put back on the triple chain, tried and tested in the Bundesliga. In Captain Emre Can, who received a break due to muscular problems in the Adductor area, there was no further fixed point in addition to the seriously injured Nico Schlotterbeck.
Nevertheless, the Dortmunders got along much better with this system and put pressure on from the start. In the fifth minute, Guirassy failed due to the representative of the injured national keeper Marc-André Ter Stegen, Wojciech Szczesny. Shortly afterwards, BVB’s most successful Champions League goal scorer was successful this season from the point in Panenka manner. Szczesny had previously cleared Pascal.
Unlike in the first leg, BVB found the gaps in the known defense against the catalans this time. The force of the 81,365 spectators also helped. The stadium was there immediately in view of the brilliant starts and drove BVB forward.
This time, too, much more impulses came from the midfield, although in Carney Chukwuemeka another permanently planned starting eleven player was at short notice. According to clubs, the loan from Chelsea fell on the thigh.
Kovac leaves Brandt on the bench
Nevertheless, this time Kovac did without Julian Brandt, who has been in the form of form for months. “Jule doesn’t play because he has played a lot lately,” Kovac explained this before the game at Amazon Prime and only switched Brandt in the final phase.
On the other hand, Wunderkind Lamine Yamal remained ineffective and had to get off the field early in the second half. Also because Bensebaini, who had caught a black day in the first leg, could hardly be recognized in the triple chain. The unfortunate own goal of the Algerian did not change that.
Even after the break, BVB came back from the cabin with steam. Again a quick goal was achieved by Guirassy, again the stadium was there. This time only lasted five minutes, then Bensebaini hit his own network and the swing was back again – until Guirassy’s third goal heralded the final sprint.
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Source: Stern
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