BORUSSIA DORTMUND-MANCHESTER CITY 1-2 (1-2 all’andata)
(15 ‘Bellingham; 55’ Mahrez, 75 ‘Foden)
BORUSSIA DORTMUND
Words 5 – Good saves, some good exits, he guesses but doesn’t reject Mahrez’s penalty. And then he has responsibilities on Foden’s network which is a final sentence for his people. He is not a Champions League quarter-final goalkeeper and it was known.
Morey 5,5 – Over there the City sinks. In the first half he gives De Bruyne a gift: only the crossbar saves him. (Dall’81’ Tigges s.v.).
Akanji 5,5 – What an effort to defend without references. Several smudges.
Hummels 6.5 – Experienced leader of a gang of very young people, he does not use good manners. And in the second half touches the net.
Warrior 5 – Too little for one with his international experience and class, being pushed. Behind it suffers but you know.
Can 4,5 – Unlucky but also clumsy, he ruins the magical evening of his team with the rigor of a draw.
Dahoud 6 – Precious on the edge of the affected, it is in the action of 1-0 and then it is also dangerous on other occasions. More effort, but these are its characteristics, in the non-possession phase. (Dal 76’ Hazard s.v.).
Bellingham 7,5 – It seems normal that he is a regular starter, but he is from 2003. He has a few pebbles in his shoe after the goal canceled in the first leg. He takes it off after a quarter of an hour, inflating the seven to Ederson’s left. Then save the result by avoiding a goal already scored. He could hear the game. Impressive, even if it is not enough. (Dall’81’ Brandt s.v.).
Knauff 5 – Another round, another kid. With Stuttgart he found his first joy in the Bundes: the talent is there, but today he touched very few balls. Almost never in the heart of the action. (Dal 68 ‘Reyna 5,5 – It does not affect).
Haaland 5.5 – Terminator has jammed. Precious on Bellingham’s goal, then disappears. Say hello to the Champions League in the quarterfinals: he too has to eat some tough bread.
Reus 5,5 – Another from which something more could be expected. It helps in the defensive phase and gives it some insight. But more can be done.
Terzic 5.5 – He comes out because his team is less strong and he is less experienced than a certain Guardiola. It’s not a crime. The advantage at half-time is illusory: in the first half it was City to grind the game. It was possible to change first.
MANCHESTER CITY
Ederson 6.5 – More with his feet than with his hands: he knows how to do it, albeit with some risk. Little can on Bellingham’s goal.
Walker 6 – The most “classic” full-back in Pep’s very little canonical round. Some trouble, discreet push.
Stones 5,5 – Soft on Haaland, too much, in the action that leads to the yellow and black advantage. Then other difficulties here and there on terminator Norwegian, finally contained.
6.5 days – His absence weighs heavily on Leeds. With him you are really calm.
Zinchenko 6,5 – He participates in the maneuver, pushes, mingles with KdB as usual. In its parts Bellingham sinks when it passes, much less Knauff.
De Bruyne 7 – Fresh from renewal, at this moment he is probably the best player in the world and will play for the first time in his career the Champions League semi-final. Cross in the first half, many ideas scattered throughout the game. The brain of the City.
Rodri 7 – Precious, the boy above draws football, he weaves the canvas around which the team’s game unfolds. It also touches the goal
Gundogan 6,5 – Against his past, perhaps a little nervous and luckily there was no audience. Always present in maneuver, less insightful than on other occasions.
Mahrez 7 – Cold as he has not always been in his career, he signs the goal from the spot that is worth the semifinal. In the first half he had already come close to scoring. (Dall’88’ Sterling s.v.).
Silva 6 – He shares with De Bruyne the role of Guardiola’s striker, that is, the space. It does so mainly by widening to the right, which is not always sharp.
Foden 7 – He decides it. And Pep’s hug says a lot about how much he believes in this guy. So many beautiful things, in the end it counts who leads you and it’s this guy from 2000.
Guardiola 7 – Her team has only one real limit: she knows she is beautiful and too often borders on narcissism. Play great football, score just two goals. Borussia forgives, PSG who knows. Meanwhile, he takes home the first Champions League semi-final since he was in England: it is his place, the oddity was not having him there for five years.
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