Many Parisian supporters already felt that they had hit the jackpot when they saw their team fall in the Champions League semi-final against Dortmund. Borussia’s match this Saturday in the Bundesliga did not change their mind, on the contrary, four days before the first leg at Signal Iduna Park.
Edin Terzic’s players, who had certainly not fielded all of his starters, fell heavily in Leipzig on the pitch at the RedBull Arena (4-1). Their opponent of the day has taken an important step towards 4th place, synonymous with qualification for the next Champions League, now five points ahead of Dortmund three days before the end of the season.
Sancho had nevertheless opened the mark
To play the C1 next season, Edin Terzic’s men will probably have to go through the additional ticket offered to one of the two best countries in the 2023-24 European season, which extends its arms to Germany, before the semi-finals. -finals Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Borussia, however, opened the scoring following a good start to the match, thanks to a beautiful curling shot from the right foot of Jadon Sancho at the edge of the area. But he then made numerous defensive errors again, punishing Lois Openda, Benjamin Sesko, Mohamed Simakan and Christoph Baumgartner in turn.
In addition, the BVB saw one of its executives, Mats Hummels, go out, injured in the leg and replaced in the 52nd minute by Niklas Süle. Terzic, however, was reassuring about the state of health of his 35-year-old defender, 2014 world champion with Germany.