In this match, Dortmund lined up 4231 at home, basically the same formation as in the last eight, with Hummmels, Schlotterbeck, Maatsen, Ryerson, EmreCan at the back, Sabitzer, Brandt attacking midfielders on the wings Sancho, Adeyemi, and Füllkrug at the front.
Roughly speaking, the Parisian side also lined up 433, with Marquinhos at the back, as in the second leg of the last eight, Lucas Hernández, Hakimi, Mendes, Vitinha in midfield, FabianRuiz, Zaïre-Emery, and Mbapp's strikeré, Dembélé, Barcola
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Both teams started the game trying to make it a rivalry and were soon attacking and defending. Paris wanted to attack Barcola, who had played well in the last game, while Dortmund defended tightly there and then attacked on the wings as soon as possible after the break with passes to the center arc.Sancho occupied the main offensive work on the right flank.
In the central area, Dort's defense against Paris was designed to keep the backs withdrawn deeper and maintain a high density, Mbappé had someone in front of him for almost a long time, and the Parisian midfielders and wingbacks retained the margin of pressure to prevent Dort's counter-attacks so that they held Mbappé off. ééééé, the connection between Barcola and Demba sides élé to the center of the area was cut off, making Paris Unable to pass the last kick in the opponent's penalty area.
In fact, these two teams were deadlocked for a long time. At the 35 mark, Schlotterbeck suddenly made a long pass at the back post. As Paris was about to go up for a high heist, Füllkrug managed to kill a direct reverse into the left side of the box from 13 yards out before firing a powerful left-footed shot into the lead.
The goal was actually played traditionally, against the offside. The most important thing for Dortmund was to time it well. In a normal attacking approach, if both teams were to attack and score like this, it wouldn't be easy with both sides standing in the back line, but this is the moment when the Paris defense intends to push forward to cause pressure. The Dortmund defender has seen this, so he makes a bold pass forward. Because the Parisian defense is almost to the center line, the distance behind it is long enough for F. üllkrug rushes out of the speed can still hold the ball steadily and, in this case, the goalkeeper Donnarumma can not attack.
Paris tried to claw their way back from a deficit but were momentarily unable to do anything about it when Lucas Herná Enrique was suddenly injured before the end of the first half and had to replace him with Baraldo.
Paris started the second half on the attack, MbappéHakimi seemed to have shifted to the left side, where he excels, and completely freed up the attack and immediately started to pummel Dortmund, Mbapp51 min. é and Hakimi hit the post with two consecutive shots from inside the penalty area, all of which bounced outwards rather than rolled in to the goal, and on 55 min. FabianLuiz even received a cross from the right and in the free conditions to attack the header easily, but Paris actually should have started the second half with a goal, but failed to capitalize.
After more than ten minutes of onslaught, Paris switched to striker Muani for Barcola, and it has been difficult to break the Dort side, allowing Mbappé to fixate on the left side, creating an attack pattern with a winger stealing the points
Mbapp71 miné entered the box again from the left and made a very nice pick, Dembélé was right in front of the goal and almost broke through but was blocked.
Since Dortmund took the lead, they have been in a defensive counterattacking position. Then, they saw through the lack of insertion in the Paris midfield, so they have been strengthening in the central areas of the defense. They were unable to connect and trap the Parisian wings. At this point, there was little support from the Parisian midfield, leading to a failed attack. Dortmund had enough breaks from Sancho and Adeyemi which made it difficult for Hakimi and Mendes to come up and attack. Dortmund kept stalemating with Paris.
Hakimi broke through the Dort defense from the right at 79 and then passed to the center, Dembélé even kicked off unmarked in the central 13-yard area, and at that moment Dembélé had become the guilty party of the match, or else he would have been moved to lean on the center of the attack in support of Mbappé at the start of the second half.é In fact, it was a very effective tactic, because Dembélé himself failed to capitalize on the
