Mats Hummels beats Kylian Mbappe and PSG to send Borussia Dortmund into Champions League final. football news

Mats Hummels scored the only goal as Borussia Dortmund stunned Kylian Mbappe and Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday, winning 1-0 on the night and setting up a place in the final at Wembley next month. Advance 2–0 on aggregate. , Hummels struck five minutes into the second half at the Parc des Princes and PSG were unable to respond, with the home side unlucky as they hit the woodwork four times in total. Dortmund, who are fifth in the German Bundesliga, were never expected to go this far and will be underdogs in the June 1 showpiece, even if they face their old rivals Bayern Munich or Real Madrid, who see you on Wednesday.

This will be their first final since 2013. Notably, the match was also played at Wembley and Jurgen Klopp’s Dortmund lost to Bayern.

Hummels played in that final and here, 11 years later, he was the hero as Dortmund capitalized on the advantage they had gained from Nicklas Feulkrug’s goal in the first leg.

“It will take a while for us to feel it, but we are extremely looking forward to it,” Dortmund coach Edin Terzic told broadcaster Amazon Prime about reaching the final.

“We made it to London somehow.”

However, the story of this semi-final is about PSG’s failure to clinch another crucial knockout encounter in the competition.

They have yet to win a trophy despite all the money invested by their Qatari owners since their 2011 takeover, and there will be no dream farewell for Mbappé.

He will leave when his contract expires after this season and was expected to play his last game for the club in the final on 1 June.

Instead PSG will be left to contemplate how they failed to lift the biggest trophy during Mbappe’s seven years at his hometown team.

“We weren’t clinical enough. They scored two goals, one from a corner and one from a long ball. We created more chances than them, but we didn’t capitalize on them,” PSG captain Marquinhos told Canal Plus.

“We came very close and we wanted to get to the final. But we had to win tonight and be more clinical, and we couldn’t do that.”

PSG’s previous two semi-final appearances both took place during the pandemic, meaning it was the first time in 29 years that they had hosted a match at this stage of European competition with fans, since losing to AC Milan in 1995 .

– Woodwork to the rescue –

Luis Enrique’s side had won 2–0 at home to Dortmund in the group stage and knew a repeat of that performance would be enough.

The PSG coach made a big selection decision, replacing Bradley Barcola and bringing in Portuguese striker Goncalo Ramos. This meant moving Mbappe from center to left wing.

Dortmund may have been preparing themselves to attack from the kick-off, but that did not happen.

It took only seven minutes for Mbappe to score his first effort, yet his volley was easily saved by Dortmund goalkeeper Gregor Kobel.

The hosts had the majority of possession but struggled to bring Mbappe into the game, with the France captain often looking isolated on the wing.

In fact it was Dortmund who had the best chances of the first half, when Karim Adeyemi headed over on a counterattack before seeing his shot saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma.

It felt like the hosts needed to change something or risk walking out in anger.

They should have been ahead two minutes after the restart when Ramos touched a ball put into the box by Mbappé, but Warren Zaire-Emery managed to hit the post from close range.

This was to prove crucial as Dortmund scored moments later.

PSG gave away a corner cheaply and Julian Brandt’s delivery from Dortmund’s right was met with a header by Hummels.

Ramos hit a shot on the hour mark, before Nuno Mendes became the second PSG player to strike the right-hand post, this time with a powerful shot from distance.

It was beginning to look like it was not going to be PSG’s night, and Luis Enrique realized he had to act as he sent on Barcola and Marco Asensio for Ramos and Fabian Ruiz, sending Mbappé into the middle.

Dortmund sent on an extra defender in the hulking Niklas Suelle and he coped with everything PSG threw at him, while also getting help from the frame of goal.

Kobel turned Mbappe’s shot onto the bar in the 86th minute and Vitinha also hit the woodwork, but Dortmund held on to book their date in London.

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