First an own goal, then the winning goal: After a long-awaited night of football, BVB is back in the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time in eleven years.
April 17, 2024, 5:31 am
Julian Brandt (right) scored for BVB to make it 1-0 in the 34th minute. © Federico Gambarini/dpa
The story of this special game can be easily told using Marcel Sabitzer. In the third minute he had his first chance of the game. He shot centrally in the six-yard box, the keeper was already on the ground, the scream for goal was already crawling up the fans’ throats. But Sabitzer had César Azpilicueta blocked. The Dortmund man clutched his head, half out of desperation, half out of shame. In the 74th minute, however, joy shot through his entire body. He ran to the fans waving his arms like a helicopter, slid to them on his knees, jumped back up and over the boards to be close to them. He was celebrated for his winning goal.
