Borussia Dortmund Defeats PSG in Champions League with Niclas Füllkrug’s Stunning Performance

Dortmund-PSG was not the most famous Champions League semi-final. Fortunately, the Iduna Signal Park was more than expected. Hundreds of identical yellow-black flags The yellow wall. A UEFA reporter who has been coming to Dortmund for years before said he had never experienced this atmosphere. It says something – in a stadium that is already known for its loud fans.

With tens of thousands of Germans jumping on their backs, it was just the kind of game Dortmund were looking for. Pack with intensity, with ball loss after ball loss. Pumping. Karim Adeyemi was once a powerful center forward, but now as a left winger he made full sprints to unceremoniously knock down PSG’s midfielders.

Füllkrug 1, Mbappé 0

The kind of situation where a striker like Niclas Füllkrug is at his best. The striker is not the fastest, certainly not the best technically, and he looks rather strange. Two years ago he played with Werder Bremen in the German second division. His nickname is ‘Lücke’, after the gap between his teeth. But when he saw an opportunity to avoid the offside trap on the stroke of half-time, he headed in just in time. Go right, shoot left. Really high. Bang, 1-0. Lucas Hernandez, who had wanted to try to put a leg in the way, was just knocked down and had to be injured. Parisian prima donnas didn’t know where they got it.

Photo: REUTERS

For a moment, Füllkrug’s most famous position mate showed himself. Kylian Mbappé decided the role, in the same action Achraf Hakimi hit the post again. Then it was back to the buffalo from Hannover. Füllkrug sent a cross wide and could/should have had a penalty when Nuno Mendes canceled out his equaliser. Unfortunately – in the battle between Beauty and the Beast, Taylor chose the former.

It will happen in Paris next week. Too bad Iduna Signal Park is not allowed.