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Borussia Dortmund v PSG: Champions League semi-final, first leg – live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 1 May - 17:30

Minute-by-minute updates on the action at Signal Iduna Park
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If this first leg of the second semi-final proves to be even half as entertaining as last night’s 2-2 draw between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid , we’ll be doing pretty well. The 1997 champions and the 2020 runners-up get down to business in the Westfalenstadion at 8pm BST . It’s on!

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Xabi Alonso was moulded by the greats and Leverkusen reflects his education | Philipp Lahm

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 1 May - 11:00

Having played under Benítez, Mourinho and Guardiola, the Spaniard has given his players a structure and identity

Football is, fortunately, a game. Victory and defeat are sometimes decided by chance. When the best of the best meet, I reckon it’s 20%. The draw increases the luck factor even more. That’s nice: it makes new winners possible.

It brought Manchester City and Real Madrid together in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, the most spectacular clash in European football for three years. Once again, it kept all its promises and thrilled with intensity and great goals. In the second leg , Carlo Ancelotti had everyone defend and said it was the only way Real had a chance. The penalty shootout was decided by psychology.

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Borussia Dortmund’s Sabitzer sinks Atlético Madrid in seesaw thriller

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 16 April - 21:13

Just another raw and savage night of Champions League football at the Westfalen: the colours vivid, the sounds ear-shattering, the defences in utter disarray. Late goals from Niclas Fullkrug and Marcel Sabitzer secured Borussia Dortmund’s passage to the semi-finals, breaking open an Atlético Madrid who look a grey scale model of the battleships Diego Simeone once produced.

It was flawed and it was chaotic, and even amid Dortmund’s elation there remains the eternal question of whether they are ever going to allow us to take them seriously, whether they will ever escape this riotously entertaining cycle of boom and bust. This tie felt like a whole psychodrama in its own right, and one Atlético could quite conceivably have finished within the first half-hour in Madrid.

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Borussia Dortmund v Atlético Madrid: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 16 April - 18:03

Champions League updates, 8pm BST kick-off ( first leg: 1-2 )
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Here they come …

If you’re in the mood for double-screening tonight, there’s this one to keep tabs on, too.

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Samuel Lino gives Atlético lead but Sébastien Haller offers Dortmund hope

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 21:14

Axel Witsel had said that Atlético Madrid had to play as if there was no second leg and for much of a noisy night at the Metropolitano, it seemed his side might make good on that approach, effectively ending the tie here. Instead, having dominated the first half and taken a 2-0 lead, then defended it the way they used to, keeping Borussia Dortmund at a safe distance and creating chances to have scored a third, an 81st-minute goal from Sébastian Haller means everything is still in play in six days’ time.

It might have been even more on a knife edge too, Julian Brandt hitting the bar with the very last touch of a noisy night. Ultimately, Rodrigo De Paul and Samuel Lino’s goals were just enough, and when Diego Simeone comes to analyse this, he will at least take comfort from the fact that they have a lead.

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Atlético Madrid v Borussia Dortmund: Champions League quarter-final – live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 10 April - 18:11

Minute-by-minute updates on the action at the Metropolitano
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A decent record.

It is looking a little lively outside.

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Police in Madrid and Paris on alert after IS threat to Champions League venues

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 9 April - 13:44

Spain to deploy 2,000 officers at Real Madrid v Manchester City
French interior minister says IS ‘specifically targeted’ stadiums

Police in Madrid and Paris have stepped up security before this week’s Champions League quarter-finals following an apparent threat from Islamic State (IS).

Although Spain’s interior ministry stressed the country’s terror alert remained at level four of five, it said 2,000 officers from the National Police and Guardia Civil forces would be deployed to help municipal police patrol Real Madrid v Manchester City on Tuesday and Atlético Madrid v Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, which will both be played in the capital.

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Champions League draw: Arsenal face Bayern as Manchester City land Madrid

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 15 March - 17:46

Premier League clubs to meet in semi-finals if they progress
Atlético v Dortmund, plus PSG v Barça completes last eight

Manchester City and Arsenal will meet in an all-Premier League Champions League semi-final should the former beat Real Madrid and the latter overcome Bayern Munich in their respective quarter-finals.

Friday’s draw for the quarter and semi-finals of Europe’s premier competition pitted City against Real for a third successive year, the previous two occasions having been in the last four. In 2022, the Spanish giants defeated Pep Guardiola’s side on their way to a record 14th triumph. Last season City prevailed en route to beating Internazionale 1-0 in the final to claim the treble.

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Sancho and Reus send Dortmund past PSV into Champions League last eight

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 13 March - 22:05

Jadon Sancho and Marco Reus scored as Borussia Dortmund secured a 2-0 win over PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday and a Champions League last-eight place for the first time in three years with a 3-1 aggregate victory.

Sancho, on loan from Manchester United, threaded his shot through the legs of an Eindhoven player and in off the post for his second goal in two matches.