Borussia Dortmund did not offer too much in the Champions League playoff against Sporting Lisbon for 45 minutes. Thanks to an enormous increase, BVB then earned a very good starting position for the second leg and won 3-0 (0-0) away.
Serhou Guirassy (60th minute) took the lead for the Bundesliga club, Pascal Groß increased (67th), Karim Adeyemi got the final score (82nd), who again improved the Dortmund chances of moving into the round of 16. There would be either Aston Villa or Lille OSC for the Borussia.
Tournament tree of the playoffs of the Champions League
“I think in the first half, we were noted that we are not brimming with confidence. But I think we fought ourselves in well and played a decent second half”, “ Said goal scorer Groß after the game on “Amazon Prime”. Coach Niko Kovac saw it similarly, was not satisfied at halftime, his eleven had “played football far too slowly. “ In half two the team has “Made a fantastic game”said Kovac as a BVB chief coach after his second game.
Anton rotates out, Gyökeres first on the bench
In his starting eleven after the failure of Ramy Bensebaini, Kovac put Daniel Svensson left behind, and Waldemar Anton also rotated on the bench after his used day against VfB Stuttgart. For him, Nico Schlotterbeck, which was recently blocked in the league, defended next to Emre Can. At Sporting, top scorer Viktor Gyökeres was also on the bench, the Swede was not ready for 90 minutes after a thigh injury.
Dortmund careful, sporting only dangerous from a distance
In the initial phase, both teams could not see the very big will to shape the game themselves. Both were more lurking on the opponent’s mistakes. And BVB, which made Maxi Araujo in the dribbling towards the penalty area, clearly gave the first almost more serious space – but the tough strand of the Uruguay only clapped the crossbar in the 16th minute. The BVB acted carefully in its own possession, often only let the ball run through the rear chain against a very high -pressing opponent, from which Svensson often moved into the central midfield.
The young sporting team was more direct and faster with their advances – but that didn’t lead to many big opportunities either. If the hosts became dangerous, then especially from a distance. With an unplaced but hard cracker from Gyökeres replacement Konrad Harder, Gregor Kobel had to use an unconventional arm defense (34th). The promising shooting positions for sporting piled up a bit in the middle of the first round – but except for the crossbar of Araujo, the experiments mostly flew centrally on Kobel.
The first Dortmund degree, which really sprayed something like danger, was a flat attempt by Jamie Gitten from a half -left position just past the gate right (37th). It was only in the last minutes of the first round that BVB had something like a small print phase, the 0-0 at the break also corresponded to the action on the lawn.
Two great flanks – two Dortmund goals
In half two the Kovac team started with significantly more swing, Lisbon’s 31 year old goalkeeper newcomer Rui Silva steered a low shot by Karim Adeyemi in his first Champions League game (54.), who made BVB Pressure. Sporting coach Rui Borges reacted promptly and brought his top star Gyökeres with great cheering the fans. He could not prevent the 0: 1 no minute later in his position: Julian Brandt flanked from the right side butter into the penalty area where Guirassy had escaped his guards and thoughtfully headed against Rui Silva’s running direction (60th). It was already Guirassy’s tenth goal in the ongoing competition.
The Borussia suddenly had the game under control: Guirassy left the right wing and flanked hard in front of the goal, where large on the second post from full run and a short distance with his leg scored the 2: 0 (67.). According to these two heses, the most inexperienced hosts visibly had difficulty finding the encounter. It was only in the 73rd minute that Ousmane Diomande managed the first really dangerous shot of the second round, but the defensive man aimed too high from the edge of the penalty area.
Schlotterbeck with strong performance – ADEYEMI gets the final score
Dortmund now had more intensity against the ball, Emre Can won an important running duel against Gyöker with all his physique and Schlotterbeck was almost always the end of the Portuguese attempted attack. So also in the 82nd minute, when he caught in his own penalty area because Ball caught and used the adeyemi, which ended the counterattack after a nice double pass with Brandt to 3: 0 (82.) and opened the door a little further towards round of 16.
For the Dortmund, the district duel with VfL Bochum is still on the weekend before the second leg next Wednesday.