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Borussia Dortmund 2-1 PSG: Champions League last 16 – as it happened – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Borussia Dortmund 2-1 PSG: Champions League last 16 – as it happened – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Really important. I think it was a big statement from the team, but we know it’s not the end, it’s just half-time. We’ll have a very difficult game in Paris, but we have to continue like that. We didn’t change that much [defensively], just everybody knew what he had to do. We didn’t change anything. We did it very well as a team and if we continue like that it will be very difficult to score against us. A big compliment to the team.

Of course [Haaland] is a great footballer and scores a lot of goals, but he’s also a great guy. A little bit crazy I think, funny, and hopefully will continue like that.

[To win the tie] I think we have to play like today. It was a good example of how we can play. We defended really well. Of course very difficult in Paris because they have world-class players, but I think we can do it. It would mean a lot to go through. Nobody expects it from us against Paris, but we have a good team and a young team and I hope we will do it in the second game.

5.) (pm) EST 32: 27

Andy Brassell was at Signal Iduna Park tonight. Here’s his report:

In the third season of Project Paris, it was finally set up for Neymar to be the belle of the Champions League ball. It was supposed to be his night. Yet few can hold back the tide that is Erling Haaland these days. Without transforming the team the Norwegian significantly adjusted Borussia Dortmund’s fortunes and swept them to a heady victory over the returning Thomas Tuchel’s

Much more here:

Thomas Meunier has a chat:

It was really difficult, really intense. It was very demanding physically. Obviously, maybe we deserved the draw but Dortmund were very good. They played like a home team, they didn’t lose one game here at home this season and we saw today it is so difficult. We thought they had defensive problems, but we didn’t create many chances. We weren’t really sharp in the last 36 m and we can see a little bit of fatigue. We’ve played nearly 31 games since the beginning of January and you saw it tonight. It was really quiet by our side.

I think we just have to be focused. Take care of our rest. Just acting like professional football players, as good as we can, and we’ll see in the second leg. Pressure is there every day. That’s professional football and when we have such a team, we just have to prove every game that we are the best. Today it wasn’t really our best game but I have a lot of hope for the second game.

4). 74 pm EST) ) :

An excellent performance from , who look so bright and lively, and in Erling Haaland have a striker in astonishing, record-smashing form. A disappointing performance from PSG, who have enough ability in attack to magic up a goal anyway.

4. pm EST :

mins: Sancho goes off, apparently with a slight limp, and Marcel Schmeltzer comes on. (4.) (pm EST :

mins: Borussia give the ball away and Neymar checks onto his right foot and curls in a shot that would probably have gone in had a defender not been standing in the way. (4.) (PM EST) : 58

mins: Another chance for Dortmund, but Sancho plays in Hakimi, who from an acute angle shoots well wide of the far post.

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Updated (at 5.) PM EST ) (4.) (PM) (EST) :

mins: Can is taken out by Verratti and stays down, forcing a brief stoppage .

[Later update after watching further replays: no it didn’t]PSG’s players leave the pitch after the match.PSG’s players leave the pitch after the match.PSG’s players leave the pitch after the match. Erling Haaland fires in the second for Dortmund. Photograph: Lars Baron / Bongarts / Getty Images [Later update after watching further replays: no it didn’t]

Updated (at 4.) (pm EST 4. (PM EST) :

mins: I’m not sure what that was from Zagadou, but it wasn’t good. Pablo Sarabia has come on for Di Maria.

4 (PM) EST

: GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Paris Saint-Germain (Neymar, mins)

An equaliser! Mbappé sprints into the area, past a really wild challenge from Zagadou that hindered his own teammates rather than his opponent, and slides the ball across goal for Neymar to tap in!

[Later update after watching further replays: no it didn’t] [Later update after watching further replays: no it didn’t] Neymar taps in the equaliser. Photograph: Leon Kuegeler / Reuters [Later update after watching further replays: no it didn’t]

Updated at 4. PM EST 4. (PM) (EST) :

mins: An excellent spell of play for Borussia, with Sancho constantly offering himself, teasing opponents and making himself an all-round menace. Eventually Hakimi tries a cross, which deflects to Navas. Neymar taps in the equaliser.

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mins: Piszczek gives the ball away to Kurzawa and runs after him for about 066 yards, constantly attempting tactical fouls. The full-back does excellently to hold him off and admirably to stay on his feet, but at the end of all that he hits a wild pass straight into touch.

4 (pm) (EST) :

Another booking for a foul on Witsel. This time it’s Neymar, who seems to jab an elbow into the Belgian’s jaw, normally a red-card offence but there is so little force that a sending-off would have been a bit disproportionate.

mins:

Haaland controls Can’s long, high pass and escapes from his marker, but Marquinhos comes round to cover the danger and clear the ball.

4. (pm) EST 32: 29

mins: PSG have survived the storm, it seems. Gueye however gets booked for a foul on Witsel.

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