Borussia Dortmund has done more than enough to win this Champions League. Perhaps he has not played attractive football, nor has he dominated all the games, but he has played great games against very complicated rivals that everyone will remember when talking about this edition. Borussia Dortmund has managed to reach the final with some comeback during the knockout phase and that emotion is what really makes you fall in love with football.
Borussia Dortmund was in the so-called group of death, and without a doubt it was the most complicated of all. These same semi-finals have shown it, since of the 4, 2 of them were from that same group. In their first match they had to face the same PSG that they now faced in the semi-finals, a rival that they also had to face in the last group match, and against whom they got only 1 point out of a possible 6. The other two rivals would have also been favorites in any other group, and both Milan and Newcastle arrive in great form, but the strong German defense managed to win 3 of the 4 remaining games to go as first in the group.
In the round of 16 there is no longer an easy rival, but among those who could play it, it seemed even an easier test than what they had already gone through, and PSV tried it in Holland, and after the 1-1 in the first leg , the return to the German fortress was marked by a 2-0 victory for Borussia Dortmund.
Until this moment, Borussia’s stadium seemed impassable, since they had only conceded 1 goal in 4 games, and against their previous rivals. In fact, the only goal they concede is against PSG, the other semi-finalist, and in a 1-1 draw that earned them first place and being here against PSV.
The quarterfinals could have been one of the best in recent years, with team names that scare anyone. There was no easy rival, and in fact, if one seemed like Cinderella, it was Borussia Dortmund itself, so Atlético de Madrid, rival in this round, was rubbing its hands for having them as a rival.
The first leg seemed a bit complicated for the Germans, but a goal in the 81st minute made the comeback at home not so complicated. And so it was again, in the stadium that believes everything is possible, they started winning 2-0 and everything seemed done. Atlético was not going to give up and managed to tie the game at 2, but this was not going to stay that way, and the German fans pushed again so that their team scored two more goals and finished the tie.
Fate is capricious, and of all the rivals that Borussia Dortmund had faced at this point in the competition, there was only one that they had not been able to beat yet, and that was PSG, their rival in the Champions League semi-finals. League.
This time the first leg was at home, and as their team had become accustomed to, they did their homework by winning to have a somewhat more affordable return on French soil. It was the first time they beat PSG this season, and the last time they traveled to Paris they lost 2-0, so the return seemed complicated, but a once again imposing defense that did not allow Mbappé anything, and a goal from one of the team’s legends, Hummels, played
the part to qualify Borussia Dortmund again for a Champions League final.
The rival is not yet known, and it could be 24 hours of celebration, but also of tension. The last time they reached the final they eliminated Real Madrid, but after the confidence of the last Champions League, winning a final against the Spanish seems more complicated than ever. And in fact, the last final they lost was against Bayern Munich, so it seems that there is no rival more affordable than another, but the mere fact of being here is already a dream.
Since the group stage, and in each round, they have been the team that had the least chance of passing, so they are already accustomed to being the underdogs of the tie, and in this final that is not going to weigh on them. But this Borussia Dortmund wants to make history again and this is their golden opportunity.
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