1-0 for the German team thanks to a nice goal from Füllkrug
MADRID, 1 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Borussia Dortmund beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 this Wednesday, thanks to the only goal from Niclas Füllkrug, in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, where the German team made their fans enjoy themselves, but left them alive to the French team ahead of a second leg that will be played on May 7 at the Parc des Princes.
At the Signal Iduna Park, the thicket of the first quarter of an hour was broken by a shot by Marcel Sabitzer and which the visiting goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, successfully repelled from a foot of the grass. Although Paris Saint-Germain then approached the rival goalkeeper’s domain, a turn by Lucas Hernández inside the area came to nothing.
Meanwhile, Kylian Mbappé was offside a lot and Luis Enrique Martínez’s machine was barely fueled. A shot by Julian Brandt from a distance, blocked by a PSG defender, was the warning after half an hour that the ‘borussers’ were simmering. Said and done, it was 1-0 in the 36th minute, after a great long pass from center back Nico Schlotterbeck.
Marquinhos had been narrowly caught when he pulled the offside line, something that Füllkrug took advantage of wonderfully with a sprint behind the back line; The Dortmund striker controlled the ball with his right foot and, as he entered the area followed by Lucas Hernández, he executed a sharp, low and powerful left foot shot that beat Donnarumma.
A black move for the Parisian team, due to the goal conceded and the injury to Lucas Hernández, whose left knee hurt after trying to avoid Füllkrug’s shot. As soon as he was replaced by Lucas Beraldo, the German team had a clear opportunity to make it 2-0, as Sabitzer put Donnarumma in trouble with a shot from point-blank range.
After Füllkrug brought down a cross on the penalty spot, he subtly touched the ball and evaded a defender past his teammate, whose left foot shot was deflected by the Italian goalkeeper. The team coached by Luis Enrique needed to react at half-time, who despite everything decided not to make any more substitutions until the 65th minute.
Before that, though, Achraf Hakimi had crashed a shot into the left post; He went into a commotion after another rejection of the post in a right hand from Mbappé. Even Fabián Ruiz had thrown out a header, from Marquinhos’s center. Once the scares were over, Edin Terzic’s pupils once again had their top offensive reference in Füllkrug.
The number 14 Borusser sent a couple of shots over the crossbar, to which PSG responded through the work of ex-culé Ousmane Dembélé, whose shot inside the area, after a pass from Hakimi, also went too high in the 80th minute. Almost immediately, Vitinha missed another shot, which on the local side was responded to by Brandt before being substituted.
Another header from Fabián Ruiz was the most dangerous thing for PSG in the final stretch of the match, from which Luis Enrique’s team came out alive, who next week in front of his audience will have to recalibrate his strategy if he wants to reach the final of the tournament against the winner. of the ‘semi’ that, on the other side of the scoreboard, measures Bayern Munich against Real Madrid.
DATASHEET.
–RESULT: BORUSSIA DORTMUND, 1 – PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN, 0 (1-0, at rest).
–ALIGNMENTS:
BORUSSIA DORTMUND: Kobel; Ryerson (Wolf, min.87), Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Maatsen; Sabitzer, Can; Adeyemi (Reus, min.83), Brandt (Nmecha, min.87), Sancho; y Füllkrug (Moukoko, min.90+1).
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN: Donnarumma; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Lucas Hernández (Beraldo, min.42), Mendes; Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, Fabián Ruiz; Dembélé, Barcola (Kolo Muani, min.65) and Mbappé.
–GOL:
1-0, min.36: Filling jug.
–REFEREE: Anthony Taylor (ENG). He yellow carded Maatsen (min.19) and Schlotterbeck (min.73) for Borussia Dortmund, and Fabián Ruiz (min.53) for Paris Saint-Germain.
–STADIUM: Signal Iduna Park, 81,365 spectators.
2024-05-01 21:12:19
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