Borussia Dortmund achieved an epic qualification for the Champions League final in Paris. With a header from his defender Matt Hummels five minutes into the second half, he once again defeated Paris Saint Germain 1-0 (he had already done so at home with the same result) and silenced the 45,000 spectators who filled the Park. of the Princes of the French capital. In the grand final on Saturday, June 1 at Wembley Stadium in London, the German team will face the winner of the match that Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will play this Wednesday at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
Only in the second stage did PSG shake off the apathy with which they faced the first. And he also had a lot of misfortune since he crashed four balls into the posts and the crossbar of the goal guarded by the Swiss Gregor Kobel. Shots by Warren Zaire Emery, Nuno Mendes, Kylian Mbappé and the Portuguese Vitinha hit the posts and that alone prevented the Parisian team from scoring a goal in the game and in the series.
On the other hand, Dortmund closed a great deal: five minutes into the second half, Hummels took advantage of goalkeeper Gigi Donnaruma’s save after a corner from Karen Adeyemi from the left and headed into the six-yard box to open the scoring. Then, coach Edin Terzic took out the right winger Jadon Sancho and put the gigantic center back Niklas Sule as the third center back between Schlotterbeck and Hummels to create a line of five in the background and withstand the Parisian siege that ended up attacking with a double compound spearhead by Mbappé and Ousmane Dembele. The resistance was tenacious and successful. But also very lucky. PSG did more than enough to not lose and even to win. But he couldn’t convert.
Elimination at home again with a powerful and multimillion-dollar team can be felt in the Paris Saint Germain area. Its owner Nasser Al Khelaifi invested fortunes not so much to win the French League as to win the Champions League that he was never able to achieve. And again he was left outside. Furthermore, this could well have been Mbappé’s last game at the club. The French star will not renew his contract and it is expected that after the London final he will announce his incorporation to Real Madrid.
For there to be a German final like the one between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund in the 2012/2013 season, Bayern will have to beat Madrid this Wednesday in a setting like the Santiago Bernabeu where the team led by Carlo Ancelotti feels invulnerable and the Last Saturday he once again became champion of the Spanish League for the 35th time.
If there is a tie again like in the first leg (2 to 2), there will be overtime and if parity is not broken, it will be the turn of the kicks from the penalty spot. Madrid is going for its 15th Champions League and has won the eight finals it has played since 1981. Bayern is looking for its seventh Champions League and to be in the 11th definition in its history of the top European trophy at club level. Anything can happen.
2024-05-07 23:09:21
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