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Full-time: Sevilla 2-3 Dortmund
Erling Haaland scored twice as Dortmund earn a first-leg advantage to end Sevilla’s nine-match winning streak.
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90+3 min: No penalty given. And, with that, Lopetegui is booked.
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90+3 min: VAR checking for a possible Sevilla penalty ... Meunier grappled with De Jong in the box. The cross came in, Meunier only had eyes for the substitute and it remains to be seen if Sevilla earn a late lifeline.
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90+1 min: Sevilla work the ball into the box but fail to truly test Hitz in the Dortmund goal. They’re politely knocking on the door.
90 min: There will be three added minutes.
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90 min: Sancho curls a shot narrowly wide! Dortmund go close to adding a fourth with a delicious left-footed strike.
89 min: Thomas Meunier replaces Mo Dahoud.
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89 min: Rodriguez is booked for a late challenge on Jadon Sancho, which leads to a kerfuffle on the touchline. But the referee soon extinguishes any brewing handbags. Dortmund are almost there.
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88 min: Might there be a comeback in Porto too?
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87 min: ... not this time. High and wide by Munir.
86 min: Munir wins a free-kick, in a similar position to the one where they prospered a moment ago. Lopetegui looks hopeful ...
GOAL! Sevilla 2-3 Dortmund (De Jong, 84)
Well, well, well! Luuk de Jong prods home at the back post after Emre Can is caught ball-watching. It came from a free-kick but Sevilla had been building impetus. Now, can they find an equaliser?
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82 min: It has become a little bitty in midfield, with a couple of players tangling as Sevilla try – at long last – to build some rhythm.
78 min: Dortmund are edging towards victory. Marco Reus is withdrawn, throws the armband towards Mats Hummels and on comes Julian Brandt. Reus has arguably been the man of the match. Haaland might have something to say about that, though.
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76 min: Felix Passlack is on for Guerreiro.
73 min: ... Oscar Rodriguez hits the upright with his first touch! It was a wonderful right-footed effort and, via the post and the Dortmund goalkeeper’s right arm, it somehow stays out. It looked as though it was going to nestle in the top corner.
72 min: Hummels is booked for a foul on the edge of the box. Sevilla will surely attempt a shot on goal, 20 yards out ...
71 min: Oscar Rodriguez is on for Joan Jordan, who sounds like an exotic version of Joe Jordan. Useless bit of information: it is 10 years since Gennaro Gattuso squared up to Joe Jordan at San Siro.
70 min: Marco Reus has been very impressive on his return to the Dortmund lineup. He has a shot blocked after Haaland feeds him on the edge of the area and Reus almost gets another go at it after a vicious strike by Jude Bellingham drops to the forward, who is then offside.
68 min: Emre Can is in the wars but that is about as troubling as things have got for Dortmund. They have been pretty poor this half but have stood firm defensively.
64 min: Sevilla go close! Jesus Navas spins on to his right foot and crosses into the box. It is played a little behind the strikers but it almost drops to Escudero and Sevilla win a corner, which Hummels thumps clear with his head. That’s more like it.
63 min: ... Sevilla end up sending the ball back to goalkeeper Bono, with Reus among those to drive Dortmund upfield.
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62 min: Torres picks out Jesus Navas with a neat crossfield pass but Dortmund snuff it out. Sevilla corner ...
59 min: Triple change for Sevilla: Oliver Torres is on for Gomez, while De Jong and Munir El Haddadi replace Suso and En-Nesyri.
55 min: Sevilla are knocking the ball around with glee but have not managed to inch closer to the Dortmund goal. Jesus Navas, the returning captain, attempts to inject a bit of urgency with a quick throw-in but they need more than that. Dortmund look comfy.
53 min: All pretty pedestrian at the moment. Sevilla need to give Dortmund something to think about.
50 min: Sevilla are dominating possession and have started this half much better ... but they’re not exactly troubling Dortmund. They have struggled to penetrate the German side, who look pretty happy with their lot after striking three times in the first half.
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48 min: Porto are laughing ...
46 min: Nemanja Gudelj is on for Ivan Rakitic, who was guilty of playing that pass that gave Dortmund a leg-up for Haaland to score his second. Sevilla must rectify that sluggishness in the second half. No changes for Dortmund.
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The second half is imminent ...
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Half-time stat, courtesy of Opta: Erling Haaland has scored 10 Champions League goals in just seven appearances for Borussia Dortmund, the quickest a player has ever reached 10 goals for a team in the competition, breaking Roy Makaay’s record with Bayern Munich (10 games, between 2003 - 2004).
Half-time: Sevilla 1-3 Dortmund
Erling Haaland has put Dortmund in the driving seat after Mo Dahoud got the Bundesliga side back on level terms in style in Sevilla. The La Liga side have been flaky.
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GOAL! Sevilla 1-3 Dortmund (Haaland, 43)
The man is a goalscoring machine. Rakitic plays a sloppy pass into Papu Gomez on halfway and Dortmund gobble it up. Reus drives at the Sevilla backline and has Sancho to his left and Haaland to his right. Understandably, he rolls the ball to his right and Haaland slots home with an ice-cool left-footed finish. Make that 18 Champions League goals in twelve-and-a-half appearances.
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41 min: Haaland is enjoying himself.
38 min: Sevilla have been poor since taking the lead. Dortmund look a different team since levelling. Emre Can is pulled up for giving Escudero a shove but otherwise Dortmund are beginning to have things all their own way.
34 min: Bono has to save from Haaland, who was released by Dahoud. Dortmund swing in a couple of corners. Kounde clears the first before Hummels powers a shot into the ground at the back post. Sevilla survive.
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30 min: In 13 Champions League appearances, only once has Haaland failed to register either a goal or an assist. Stonking numbers.
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GOAL! Sevilla 1-2 Dortmund (Haaland, 27)
It is now 17 Champions League goals in 13 appearances for Erling Haaland, who slots home after a neat give-and-go with Sancho. The previous record for fewest games to score so many goals was 22 – by Ruud van Nistelrooy and Harry Kane. Haaland, slaloming upfield, powered past a sea of Sevilla shirts after seizing possession on halfway before nudging the ball into Sancho. The Sevilla defence were sliced open and Haaland frankly made them look silly. Haaland ends up nutmegging Bono, the Sevilla goalkeeper after Diego Carlos loses his man. Sevilla were lax there.
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25 min: Akanji received a dab of treatment, returned to his feet and has just fizzed in a pass towards Bellingham. He looks set to carry on. It looked worrying.
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23 min: Dortmund go in search of a second goal on the counterattack but have to settle for a corner ... meanwhile Manuel Akanji is on the grass, grounded with what looks to be a hamstring injury.
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GOAL! Sevilla 1-1 Dortmund (Dahoud, 19)
Pick that one out. Mo Dahoud bends a delightful strike into the top corner after fine work by Haaland, who took three Sevilla defenders out of the game. He held up the ball on the right flank from a throw-in before squaring for Dahoud, who drove inside and then cut back on to his right foot. The rest, as they say, is history.
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19 min: A sideshow to the main event? “I have a fun game for your readers that I invented since we have a couple of ex-Liverpool players featuring in this match,” emails Bryan Tisinger. “Which ex-Liverpool players would be the most helpful in turning around the funk/injury plague that Liverpool has been in for the past couple of months? I actually think Emre Can would be quite helpful, either in the midfield or for central defence cover.”
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18 min: Akanji strides out from defence and wins a free-kick on halfway. That will give Dortmund a platform on which to build.
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16 min: Sancho cuts inside off the left and into the box before letting fly ... but Sevilla throw a couple of bodies on the line. Sancho is not short of invention. He looks lively.
15 min: Dahoud plays a blind pass and Sevilla are in down the right. Kounde drags a shot wide. Dortmund look a little nervy.
13 min: Dortmund have not kept a clean sheet in any of their last nine away games in the knockout stages of the Champions League, with their last one coming back in April 2013, v Malaga.
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11 min: Sancho gets his own back on Suso, skinning the Sevilla midfielder as he skirts down the left flank. But Dortmund’s attack breaks down.
8 min: That was the first meaningful foray by either team and, from a Dortmund perspective, it was all too easy. Sancho did not cover himself in glory but Sevilla were able to shift the ball from left to right without much fuss in the first place.
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GOAL! Sevilla 1-0 Dortmund (Suso, 7)
Via a big deflection, the hosts lead. Suso chops inside Jadon Sancho, the midfielder then takes aim with his right foot and it cannons off Mats Hummel’s left boot, wrong-footing the Dortmund goalkeeper and zooms into the back of the net.
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5 min: Sevilla are enjoying their first prolonged spell of possession. Both teams are just getting their bearings.
3 min: There has been an early goal in Porto ...
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2 min: Encouraging start by Dortmund, with Sancho jinking past a couple of Sevilla feet on the edge of D. Sancho tries to slip in Haaland but overcooks his pass.
Peeeeeeeeep!
Dortmund kick-off in Sevilla.
Here come the teams ...
A striking pre-match stat: aged 17 years and 233 days, Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham is the youngest ever English player to start a game in the knockout stages of the Uefa Champions League. Dortmund have lost three of their past six games but Sevilla on a nine-match winning streak; Chelsea, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are the only teams to beat them since October.
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Team news news: Stourbridge’s Jude Bellingham starts at the Sanchez-Pizjuan, as does fellow England international Jadon Sancho. Marco Reus returns to the starting lineup for Dortmund but Thomas Delaney remains in Germany as his wife is expecting their first child. As for the hosts, the former Liverpool midfielder Suso starts but Luuk de Jong drops to the bench for Sevilla, with Julen Lopetegui making a handful of changes from the team that overcame Huesca last weekend.
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The teams!
Sevilla (4-3-3): Bono; Jesús Navas, Koundé, Diego Carlos, Escudero; Fernando, Jordán, Rakitic; Suso, Papu Gómez, En-Nesyri
Subs: Vaclík, Alfonso, Aleix Vidal, Sergi Gómez, Rekik, Gudelj, Óliver Torres, Óscar, Munir, De Jong
Borussia Dortmund (4-3-3): Hitz; Morey, Akanji, Hummels, Guerreiro; Can, Dahoud, Bellingham; Reus, Sancho, Haaland
Subs: Unbehaun, Drljaca, Brandt, Knauff, Tigges, Moukoko, Schulz, Passlack, Reyna, Reinier, Meunier
Referee: Danny Makkelie (Ned)
Preamble
Borussia Dortmund have already been busy arranging the furniture for next season but the immediate focus is on navigating a way past Sevilla to reach the Champions League quarter-finals. On Monday it was confirmed the Borussia Mönchengladbach manager Marco Rose would take charge from the summer but interim coach Edin Terzic is the man tasked with helping Dortmund go one step further after exiting at this stage of the competition last season. Erling Braut Haaland has taken it upon himself to read his team-mates the riot act, warning more lukewarm performances will not unseat Sevilla. Dortmund have won three of their past eight games and are 16 points off the pace of Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich “Sevilla are a strong team. We just have to find our form again and do our best on the pitch to have a chance,” Haaland said. “If we play like we did in the last few games, we have no chance.”
Haaland has scored 16 goals in his last 12 Champions League games – the fastest any player has accumulated that tally in the competition – but the La Liga club, who are fourth in their domestic division and finished as runners-up to Chelsea in Group E, pose formidable opposition having won nine games on the bounce. “If you analyse Dortmund’s game, their potential and attacking threat you see they are very tough to match,” said Sevilla’s manager Julen Lopetegui. “They have top players in all positions but that does not take away our ambition to beat them.”
Kick-off: 8pm (GMT)
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