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Füllkrug fires Dortmund to 1-0 win over Mbappé's PSG in Champions League semifinal first leg
DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Niclas Füllkrug scored and Borussia Dortmund earned a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Wednesday. Dortmund defender Nico Schlotterbeck sent a long pass over the top for Füllkrug to control brilliantly with his first touch before firing it past PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma with his next in the 36th minute. It gives Dortmund a narrow advantage before the teams play again in the second leg in Paris next Tuesday, when the French champion will need to overturn the result if it’s going to capture Europe’s biggest prize before Kylian Mbappé leaves the club. PSG is under pressure to finally win to the Champions League to justify more than a decade of huge investment from its Qatari owners.
You may be right – Ange Postecoglou bemused by set-piece questions for Spurs
Ange Postecoglou remained defiant in the face of more debate over Tottenham’s set-piece issues and insisted they would not copy the “strategy” adopted by Arsenal.Spurs have shipped 14 goals from set-pieces – excluding penalties – in the Premier League this season after they conceded twice from corners in Sunday’s 3-2 home loss to the Gunners.Leaders Arsenal have become set-piece kings since Mikel Arteta recruited specialist coach Nicolas Jover and one of his tactics was to have Ben White attempt to dislodge the gloves of Tottenham goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.Whether it worked or not can be disputed but what is clear is...
Borussia Dortmund emerge with the advantage but PSG tie still in flux after night of missed chances
Might the story of the season suddenly be happening out of nowhere, like another sublime Jadon Sancho run? Nobody has given Borussia Dortmund a chance in these Champions League semi-finals but, in part because Paris Saint-Germain couldn’t take any massive chances of their own, the German club at least have one foot in Wembley.That came from the one goal in this tie, that was itself struck by another unfashionable figure in Niclas Fullkrug, but it could have been so many more.It was a 1-0 win for Borussia Dortmund that could have been a 7-6 either way. If PSG are to...
‘Really good’ Chelsea fans give Mauricio Pochettino treats while walking his dog
Mauricio Pochettino insisted he has received positive feedback from Chelsea supporters on the work he is doing at Stamford Bridge, but only while he has been out walking his dog.The Argentinian has regular 90-minute outings with his Rhodesian Ridgeback, Sansa, during which he said he has enjoyed frank exchanges with fans about the state of the club across what has been a difficult first season in charge.And much of the word has been positive, helped he believes by a more relaxed setting where he is able to give a more genuine account of himself than sometimes comes across in the...
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