55.
22:16
The first good Dortmund attack after the break goes through Ryerson. After interacting with Nmecha, the Norwegian wants to shoot from 17 meters, but is interrupted at the last moment. But also with fair means? Of course not according to Ryerson, but there was no sign of a foul.
52.
22:13
How does Borussia react? First of all, only Paris Saint-Germain plays and lets the ball circulate through their own ranks.
50.
22:12
On the one hand, the goal was bitter for BVB because Süle didn’t actively go to the ball and could hardly react. You definitely don’t have to give the penalty. On the other hand, it is also the acknowledgment that Dembélé was once again able to fill up on the wing far too easily. Ryerson in particular didn’t look good in the making.
49.
10:10 p.m
Tooor for Paris Saint-Germain, 1-0 by Kylian Mbappé
Kylian Mbappé takes responsibility and puts PSG in the lead! The Parisian superstar starts slowly and then shoots hard and places it flat into the left corner. Kobel has the corner, but can’t get close.
48.
22:09
The VAR will check for a while, but the decision remains.
47.
22:09
Penalty for Paris! Ousmane Dembélé leaves two people on the right and after a one-two passes with speed to the baseline. Mbappé takes his pass into the backcourt directly and hits Süle’s outstretched arm from very close range. Jesús Gil Manzano immediately points to the point.
46.
22:06
The second half continues without any personnel changes.
46.
22:06
Kick-off of the 2nd half
45.+4
9:53 p.m
Half-time conclusion:
The first 45 minutes between Paris Saint-Germain and Borussia Dortmund end goalless! A fairly defensively oriented BVB has played a decent game in Prinzenpark so far and has not allowed much. PSG has a lot of ball possession and occasional periods of pressure, but they can hardly find any shots. Only Vitinha’s long-range shot after 19 minutes became dangerous and the post had to be saved by the defeated Gregor Kobel. Otherwise, Mbappé, Dembélé and Zaire-Emery repeatedly create gaps and outplay the Dortmund five-man chain, but never put the ball on goal. The guests also had some good transition situations in the first quarter of an hour, but became increasingly less dangerous and lost too many easy balls at the back when going forward. Let’s continue with the second round in Paris!
45.+4
9:49 p.m
End of 1st half
45.+3
9:48 p.m
It doesn’t look like it. Apparently both teams have now agreed to go into the dressing room with the score 0-0.
45.+1
9:47 p.m
There’s three minutes on top of that. Anything else happening in this first half?
45.
9:46 p.m
Official injury time (minutes): 3
43.
9:46 p.m
Paris is now putting more pressure on and is restricting Borussia at the back. But the home team isn’t really dangerous anymore. Even the tenth corner doesn’t lead to a conclusion.
40.
9:43 p.m
The eighth Paris corner hits Niklas Süle’s outstretched arm via a detour at the five-point boundary. The VAR looks at the scene for a while and then decides in favor of Dortmund. No penalty!
39.
9:41 p.m
Close thing! Marquinhos accidentally extends a sharp corner to Ryerson, who almost deflects the ball into his own goal. Ultimately the thing rushes half a meter past the left post.
36.
9:38 p.m
Now BVB is once again in the opponent’s half and drives a tentative counterattack down the left side. The 1.96 meter long Donnarumma then easily plucks the final cross over Adeyemi while standing.
34.
9:36 p.m
Mbappé serves Kolo Muani at the headquarters. The new signing from Frankfurt immediately picked up speed and fired powerfully with his right hand 18 meters in front of the goal. Süle approaches in desperate need and deflects the ball decisively.
32.
9:34 p.m
After the guests switched well and created chances in the first quarter of an hour, nothing has happened offensively for Borussia for a long time.
30.
9:32 p.m
The hosts have had over 70% possession of the ball so far and are increasingly pushing BVB at the back. After the next corner, Vitinha shoots unchallenged from the backcourt and brings the ball sharply out of the goal. Wolf bravely keeps his head clean and clears to the next corner.
27.
9:30 p.m
Wolf wins the ball strongly on his right side, but immediately gives it back and Paris gets the next corner. Hakimi is released at the penalty area and lets a Dortmund player run into space, but then puts his shot completely wrong.
24.
9:27 p.m
Half of the first half is over. What do you do with this opening phase for Dortmund? The Black and Yellows have some good scenes offensively, but despite the nominal majority in the defensive 5-3-2, they don’t seem at all solid at the back. The fast Dembélé and Mbappé keep coming through on the wings.
23.
9:25 p.m
Then Paris again! Schlotterbeck blocks a Hakimi shot from outside the penalty area at the very last second.
22.
9:25 p.m
Karim Adeyemi picks up the pace and moves out to the left wing before passing to the back for Emre Can. He takes a powerful shot from 25 meters at full risk and clearly misses the box.
20.
9:22 p.m
The post saves for Dortmund! The guests defend with five to seven men in their own penalty area and are clearly in the majority, but they act too passively. 15 meters in front of the box, Vitinha can load through and hits the ball on the left post. Kobel wouldn’t have had a chance.
18.
9:20 p.m
Can reaches again and this time puts Manuel Ugarte. The BVB six is so far the most promising candidate for the first yellow card.
17.
9:19 p.m
After a Dortmund corner, PSG counterattacks! Dembélé has plenty of space on the left, switches on the turbo and goes flat inwards at five-point height. In the middle, Randal Kolo Muani gets his foot on it, but can’t control the ball. So the leather rushes across the box to Mbappé, whose following cross is then neatly defended by BVB.
15.
9:16 p.m
First good chance for Borussia! Donyell Malen makes his way into the box from the left on his own and shoots between two defenders, but aims straight at keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
14.
9:15 p.m
Substitution at Borussia Dortmund: Felix Nmecha
14.
9:15 p.m
Substitution at Borussia Dortmund: Marcel Sabitzer
13.
9:15 p.m
This does not look good! Marcel Sabitzer avoids a tackle in midfield, but then seems to have an unfortunate landing and injures himself without the opponent having any influence. The ex-Munich player immediately sits down on the lawn and indicates that things aren’t going any further.
11.
9:13 p.m
Emre Can falls 30 meters in front of his own goal without much trouble and gives the hosts a free kick in a promising position. Ousmane Dembélé does very little with it and sends the ball half-high to the first Dortmund player within reach.
9.
9:10 p.m
The guests’ third corner then lands on the head of Hummels, who, while running backwards, heads it clearly over the goal.
8th.
9:10 p.m
BVB now gets some calm in their own game for the first time and comes over the right side. Brandt takes a corner and brings it inside himself. At the first post, Wolf extends the ball into nowhere.
5.
9:07 p.m
Brandt has to go into a duel with Mbappé on the outside, has no chance at all and clearly fouls the Frenchman. Dembélé brings the free kick sharply inside from the left and almost finds Mbappé again. However, his attempt to bring the ball onto the goal with his heel fails.
3.
9:05 p.m
Kylian Mbappé moves for the first time on the left and simply leaves Hummels standing, but his cross is intercepted by Süle. A little later, Hakimi scored the first goal, but his 20-meter shot was immediately blocked.
2.
9:03 p.m
As Edin Terzić’s personnel changes have already suggested, the guests are playing in a nominally extremely defensive 3-5-2. Paris uses the usual 4-3-3 against it.
1.
9:02 p.m
The ball is rolling! The home team is playing in black today, Dortmund is wearing yellow.
8:57 p.m
The game will be officiated by Spanish FIFA referee Jesús Gil Manzano and his team. The referees are now ready in the catacombs and will lead the 22 starting players onto the pitch. In just a few minutes the ball will finally roll in the Prinzenpark!
20:54
While Borussia and PSG are just getting started, Milan and Newcastle have already made their first appearance. The early Group F game was held to a goalless draw at San Siro.
8:39 p.m
Coach Luis Enrique is not surprised by his team’s stuttering start. “The process takes time, but I’m just focused on my work. I want my players to understand how I want to play. Of course we want to achieve good results as quickly as possible, but that just takes time,” said the Spanish coach of the Parisians . Nevertheless, the 53-year-old also made it clear that he has big goals for PSG. “We always want to go as far as possible in every competition and have great ambitions. We only have to have one goal: play to win.”
8:30 p.m
Similar to BVB, Paris started the new season rather slowly. There were only two wins from five league games. At the weekend there was their first defeat in the home game against Nice with 2:3, although Kylian Mbappé scored twice. The striker is one of the few remaining stars in the French champions’ squad, which has almost completely restructured itself after the departures of Lionel Messi, Neymar, Sergio Ramos, Marco Verratti, Georginio Wijnaldum, El Chadaille Bitshiabu and Abdou Diallo. Some names will probably be familiar to the people of Dortmund. Achraf Hakimi and Ousmane Dembélé once wore the BVB jersey themselves, while Randal Kolo Muani (Frankfurt) and Lucas Hernández (Bayern) were in the Bundesliga just a few months ago.
8:16 p.m
After an overall mixed start to the season, the black and yellow team at least ensured that you can go to Paris with self-confidence and a good feeling at the weekend. In the Bundesliga game in Freiburg, BVB turned a 1-2 half-time deficit into a 4-2 away win. The fact that Dortmund remains unbeaten is also due to Mats Hummels, who scored a brace in Breisgau. Defense colleague Nico Schlotterbeck already has a plan for today: “We want to play a good game right from the start. They have very fast players up front. We want to defend them. If we can do that, we can survive in Paris and win.”
8:07 p.m
Let’s take a look at the lineups: There are two changes at BVB compared to the weekend. Niklas Süle moves in as an additional central defender alongside Mats Hummels and Nico Schlotterbeck, while Ramy Bensebaini moves to the bench. Sébastien Haller can also be found there, as Marius Wolf starts up front alongside Adeyemi and Malen. Gio Reyna is back in the squad and sits on the bench. At PSG, Marquinhos and new midfielder Manuel Ugarte are back, and Randal Kolo Muani is also making his starting debut. Danilo, Carlos Soler and Gonçalo Ramos move to the substitutes’ bench.
8:01 p.m
Borussia didn’t exactly have any luck with the draw. In addition to PSG, the German runners-up were also drawn with AC Milan and Newcastle United in a real awesome group. From the start, every point counts in the fight for the two places in the round of 16. Despite the well-known competition, coach Edin Terzić was optimistic and made it clear: “There are three strong opponents waiting for us. But that doesn’t change the fact that we go into the Champions League with great ambitions and want to move into the knockout phase.”
8:01 p.m
Hello and welcome to Borussia Dortmund’s first Champions League appearance in the 2023/24 season! At the start, BVB will play in Group F against the French champions Paris St. Germain. Kick-off in Prinzenpark is at 9 p.m.