‘No one expected us’, says Marco Reus on Dortmund’s Wembley return football news

“Nobody expected us to make it,” said Borussia Dortmund veteran Marco Reus as his team returned to the Champions League final at Wembley by beating Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday. Dortmund will return to the site of the 2013 Champions League final, when the then-Jurgen Klopp-coached team lost 2–1 to German rivals Bayern Munich. Dortmund won 1–0 in the second leg of the semi-finals at the Parc des Princes this year thanks to a header from Mats Hummels, who also played for Dortmund in the 2013 final. They lead 2–0 on aggregate, having won the first leg by the same score.

“Tomorrow no one will ask how we did it. They will see the name Borussia Dortmund in the final at Wembley,” Reus told Amazon Prime.

“Today it was clear that we needed to suffer and we needed some luck, but what the boys did was madness, madness.”

The 34-year-old, who announced on Friday he would be leaving his boyhood club at the end of the season, said the feeling of returning to European football’s showpiece event was “indescribable”.

“Now we better win it, otherwise it’s really going to suck,” Reus said.

Reus re-joined Dortmund in 2012, having come through the club’s junior system and moving first to Rot-Weiss Ahlen and then Borussia Mönchengladbach at the age of 15.

“What a week this has been for me personally. To finish in the Champions League final, where it all started for me in 2013 – after more than 10 years!”

A rematch with Bayern remains a possibility, with Thomas Tuchel’s side playing Real Madrid in the other semi-final on Wednesday. Bayern and Real played a 2-2 draw in the first leg.

Dortmund ran out of luck in both semi-finals, with PSG hitting the woodwork six times – including four times on Tuesday.

Despite needing help from the goal frame, Dortmund’s central defensive pairing of Hummels and Nico Schlotterbach kept PSG’s top attacker Kylian Mbappe in check.

The final at Wembley on June 1 will be Dortmund’s third Champions League final, having won the competition in 1997.

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