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Borussia Dortmund‘s coach, Edin Terzic, said that his team will exert more effort than it did last week when it won with a goal over Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final, when the two teams meet today, Tuesday, in the return match.
The Yellow and Black players ran almost 10 kilometers more than their French opponents in the first leg, as Niklas Volkrug’s goal gave them victory.
Although the result is in their favor, Dortmund is not considered the most likely candidate to advance to the final, and this is what suits coach Edin Terzic.
Terzic said in a press conference, “The Paris Saint-Germain project was built in order to win the title. This is their mission, but we have a huge dream and we want to achieve it. If necessary, we will run 20 kilometers more, and if the issue was related to the favorite candidates, we would not have run.” We arrived here today.”
Paris Saint-Germain won 2-0 at home when the two teams met in the group stage last September, but Terzic said that the team that won the championship title once in 1997 has developed a lot as a team since then.
He added: “We did not find ourselves in that match. We lacked courage in many situations in both matches, and then we showed our ability to play differently against Paris Saint-Germain.”
The French capital team has not succeeded in winning the Champions League title before, despite the great financial support from the club’s Qatari administration, while this tournament may be the last at the continental level for the team’s star and top scorer, Kylian Mbappe, amid expectations of his imminent transfer to Spanish Real Madrid.
For his part, Dortmund defender Mats Hummels wants to spoil that night for the French team’s star.
Hummels said: “You can defend against him as a team, because of his tremendous speed. You cannot defend against him individually, but he is part of a team and you must watch the other players as well.”
With the exception of the long-term injured duo of Ramy Bensebaini and Jolene Duranville, and 18-year-old player Kjell Vatjen, who will join the team after taking a test at school, the entire Dortmund roster has left for France.
Ivorian striker Sebastien Haller is in the picture again, as he missed the match that Dortmund won over Augsburg 5-1, in which Vatjen participated as part of the rotation in the formation.
Dortmund enters the match without any fears or doubts about the readiness of its players.
Dortmund is looking to qualify for the final of the tournament for the first time since 2013, when the team lost to Bayern Munich, its traditional rival, and the matter may be repeated if Bayern succeeds in defeating Spanish Real Madrid after the end of the first leg 2-2, and the two teams will meet again tomorrow, Wednesday. .
Sebastian Kehl, the club’s sporting director, said: “We have great courage and this is what we need, but we also need anticipation, optimism and attention. This is part of the matter.”
He added: “We built a good foundation in the first leg and we seek to maintain the dream of going to Wembley.”
Source: Sky News