2024-04-17 12:39:05
Borussia Dortmundwho defeated Atlético Madrid 4 to 2 in Germany, and Paris Saint Germain, who turned the series around as a visitor and beat Barcelona 4 to 1, They will star in one of the Champions League semi-finals that will be completed this Wednesday with the games that will be played from 4 p.m. on ESPN Manchester City-Real Madrid (3 to 3 in the first leg) and on Fox Sports, Bayern Munich-Arsenal (2-2 in the first leg).
The world champions started at Atlético Madrid Nahuel Molina (he came out at halftime replaced by Pablo Barrios) and Rodrigo de Paul, who played 83 minutes and was replaced by Saúl. While Angel Correa He participated in the entire second stage, replacing Alvaro Morata, and scored the goal that had given the team led by Diego Simeone the tie and qualification. But Dortmund, which was winning 2-0 at the end of the first stage with goals from Julian Brandt and the Dutch Ian Maatsenwas able to react and with two goals in three minutes of Niklas Fullkrug and the Austrian Marcel Sabitzer went on to win 4 to 2 and advance to the semifinals.
For its part, Barcelona, which had won 3 to 2 last week in Paris, started winning at the Montjuich Olympic stadium with a goal from the Brazilian Raphinha 12 minutes into the initial stage after an overflow on the right by the youth Lamine Yamal. But At 28, Uruguayan defender Ronald Araujo was sent off for a last resort infringement on Ousmane Dembelé and that seemed to dismember the Catalans who were never able to regain control of the game and collapsed football and emotionally.
Dembele himself tied the game after 40 minutes and in the second half, the French counterattacks and the defensive hesitations of the Spanish overturned the proceedings. At 54 minutes, A tight right-footed shot from outside the area by Portuguese Vitinha put PSG ahead that defined the result and the classification with two goals from their megastar Kylian Mbappe: At 61 he converted a penalty after a foul inside the area by Joao Cancelo against Dembelé and at 88 he closed the account after the French forwards won three consecutive rebounds in the Barcelona area. In this way, PSG once again got into the top four in Europe and will go to the semi-finals against Dortmund on a date to be determined during the month of May.