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Dortmund made a false start against the six-time Europa League winner at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuan Stadium. Susu was not attacked enough just outside the penalty area, he was able to shoot, and his shot was unfortunately deflected towards his own goal by Mats Hummels (7th). The BVB was not discouraged by this and showed a strong reaction two days after it became known that Marco Rose from Gladbach will be Dortmund’s new manager from the summer.
On this occasion, the Spaniards Mahmoud Dahoud left too much room to prepare the ball and hit the corner from 20 meters (19º). Haaland had served him before, it was the beginning of his new gala performance. The 20-year-old grabbed the leather just past the center line, shot towards goal and completed the action after a double with Jadon Sancho slipping in top scorer fashion.
Haaland continues to search for records
Shortly before the break, the Norwegian fired into the far corner after a counterattack and preparatory work by Marco Reus. Haaland has always scored in his five season appearances in the CL, always twice in the three most recent games. In his career he now has 18 goals in CL, which no player before had achieved in the first 13 games. In competitive matches, he also increased his impressive season record to 25 goals in 24 matches.
In the second half, the guests were mostly content with managing the leadership. Sevilla became more dangerous in goal, but initially had bad luck with a free kick from Óscar Rodríguez to the post (74). In the end, however, the pressure was even greater. Luuk de Jong took a free kick from Rodríguez into the far corner directly and headed for the connecting goal (84th).
But nothing changed in the first loss after nine competitive games in a row. Dortmund can even afford a 1-0 defeat in the return leg on March 9. During his debut as a coach in the CL, BVB coach Edin Terzic also had the certainty of how things will follow from the summer. “Edin will stay with us next season on the coaching team and will return to his old role as Kotrainer,” said BVB sporting director Michael Zorc.
Juventus is threatened with an early retirement
Turin Juventus and superstar Cristiano Ronaldo lost 2-1 (0-1) at FC Porto and are therefore under pressure in the return leg on March 9. After all, Federico Chiesa saved the Serie A club from a worse starting position with his late goal (82nd). Juve had already failed in the first knockout round against Olympique Lyonnais last season.
The match at the Estadio do Dragao started badly for the Italians. After a minute, Rodrigo Betancur made a too short backward pass to Juve goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny. Porto’s Mehdi Taremi straddled the middle and took the lead. Also in the second part the guests started wrong. This time, it wasn’t even 30 seconds before Moussa Marega scored Porto’s second goal.
On the contrary, hardly anything of those of Turin was seen, and Ronaldo hardly appeared in his Portuguese land. In the first 45 minutes, Porto goalkeeper Agustín Marchesin was stopped only once by a shot by Adrien Rabot (41st). In the second half there were hardly any chances until Chiesa scored.
