Barcelona booked her place in the semi -finals of the Champions League, although Borussia Dortmund fell 3-1 in the second on -board of her quarter -finals.
La Blaugrana was highly 4-0 winners during the first leg and triumphed a total of 5: 3, but was sweated by her German opponents on Tuesday evening when Serhou Guirassy achieved a hat trick in Dortmund’s victory in the evening.
Barcelona recorded her overall advantage in the final phase and has secured a collision with Inter- or Bayern Munich in the last four.
How the game unfolds
Only a few offered Dortmund all hope for a historical comeback, but this feeling was not shared by the rough signal -iduna park. The deafening volume in the stadium promoted a wave of early pressure from the hosts, which in the 11th minute, when Guirassy was converted from the position, rightly reduced the total advantage of Barcelona.
Pascal Gross was the man who, in the penalty area through the falling framework of Wojciech Szczesny and the midfield General, who missed the first leg through suspension, provided another warning sign when he brought the Polish goalkeeper beyond the Polish goalkeeper five minutes later. Fortunately for the visitors, the offside flag BVB contested a second.
Barcelona was able to stab the half -hour brand, but struggled to captivate Dortmund’s threats to attack. Yellow and black shirts burdened the aid of the Catalans, which were relieved to enter the half -time after they were granted only once after the waste of Maximilian Beier and Karim Adeyemi.
But just four minutes after the restart, Barcelona’s defense didn’t have as happy when Dortmund closed the gap. Guirassy, who scored twice in the league phase between the teams, was again the thorn in her side and drove Ramy Bensebainis Pass to disturb the visitors.
Bensbaini was the architect of Dortmund’s second, but quickly became villain when he restored Barcelona’s three-goal lead. The defense lawyer rattled Fermin Lopez ‘leg too post cross into his own network when hope for an amazing comeback began to evaporate.
Guirassy met the belief in the Signal Iduna Park, when he benefited from a terrible release of Ronald Araujo to shoot beyond Szczesny and claim the match ball, but despite her tireless pressure as a barcelona, Dortmund could no longer score goals in the dying embers in the next round.
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It cannot deny that the appearance on Tuesday this season was not Barcelona from Barcelona. They were overwhelmed in the first half when the decibels climbed in the signal Iduna Park, and they also showed signs of nerves in the second period. It was far from a vintage show when Dortmund offered more than a glimmer of hope.
Hansi Flick is anything but impressed by what he saw from his side whose complacency was almost as expensive. While Dortmund was a little away from an amazing comeback, the supporters in Barcelona in the final phases in the final phases bitten wildly on a routine evening.
Such a paint -adasian performance will almost certainly be used by Inter or Bavaria in the next round.
Barcelona’s attacking superiority decided the first leg, but Dortmund was still able to cause defensive problems for La Blaugrana at Estatia Olimpic Lluis. Guirassy had made it guilty of wasting several excellent openings that could have changed the complexion of the tie, but he was not so wasteful on Tuesday
The Dortmund striker was regularly delivered by teammates when the hosts repeatedly defeated the offside trap of Barcelona’s ridiculously high line. The midfield of Gross remained uncontrolled, while like Beier and Adeyemi both used their speed to cause chaos when Niko Kovac’s team followed a direct approach.
Individual mistakes did not help – Szczesny gave Dortmund out of her first and Araujo, who spent her third ends – but not for the first time this season Barcelona’s aggressive defense line was punished. You will find it difficult to win the Champions League that leaves such an enormous place behind, and Flick may have to change the tacking at halftime.
Barcelona was characterized by her breathtaking attack regulations this season, but her fearsome striker trial virate was rarely steamed as in Dortmund.
Raphinha, Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski only combined two shots on Tuesday – and recorded anonymously with a disappointing Barcelona performance and were anonymous.
In the last third, they lacked their usual boasting and energy and played with a half -hearted interest in what was going on around them. There was plenty of space for her to trigger her attack potential when Dortmund pressed and hidden, but they were able to find their reason in a difficult environment.
Of course, this was only a one-off evening with below-average displays under Barcelona’s all-conquering attack unit, but you can’t afford to be missing like in Germany during the rest of your champions League campaign.