PSG v Borussia Dortmund: Champions League semi-final, second leg – live | Champions League

Halftime entertainment. The other semi-final is also delicately balanced. Sid Lowe reports from Madrid, where it will all come in this time tomorrow.

HALF TIME: Paris Saint-Germain 0-0 Borussia Dortmund (0-1 aggregate)

45 minutes: Mbappe probes the inside right channel. He rolls the ball to Fabian Ruiz, who unleashes a wild shot that deflects off Schlotterback and inches wide of the left-hand post. Kobel was rooted. Nothing came of the resulting corner, but it could have been disastrous for Dortmund.

44 minutes: Maatsen throws long on the left. Fühlkrug wins a header in the PSG box, but there is no one there to take advantage of the knockdown.

42 minutes: Vitinia sends a deflected but generally harmless shot straight at Kobel from distance.

41 minutes: Brandt has the opportunity to play Adeyemi into space on the left, but gets away, allowing Marquinhos to strip him of possession. Füllkrug was away from the game but appeared to be moving freely.

39 minutes: Well, that’s weird. No one comes to see the Füllkrug, which eventually rises again. It’s nice to see, but it’s all a bit weird. Mbappe and Gonzalo Ramos then restarted the game by giving Dortmund the ball back… but only to knock it out for a throw-in deep into the away team’s territory. Schlotterbeck is not happy. The referee tells him to stop.

38 minutes: Ouch, that doesn’t look good for Füllkrug, who lands awkwardly and immediately motions to his bench. Dortmund sent the ball out of play so it could receive treatment.

36 minutes: Huge chances at both ends! Fabian Ruiz cut the ball off the line to the left of the Dortmund goal. Mbappe slides in a shot but can’t get the right connection. Suddenly Adeyemi breaks through the middle! He gets to the edge of the Parisians’ penalty area before curling a low shot into the bottom right corner. Donnarumma is equal to that! What a rescue. The Italian guard keeps PSG in the Champions League!

34 minutes: PSG are starting to dominate possession… but aside from that Dembele chance, they’re doing very little with it.

33 minutes: Zaire-Emery wins a corner from the right. Dembele takes. Marquinhos can’t get his head on target and is forced to chase Fühlkrug, who tries to counter. Marquinhos drags Fühlkrug down and is very lucky not to go in the book.

31 minutes: Mbappe comes in from the left, drawing four yellow shirts towards him, before turning to Zaïre-Emery, who promptly flicks the ball down the inside-right channel for Dembele. It’s a good shooting opportunity, albeit from a slightly narrow angle; Dembele swings it wildly wide and high. He should have worked with Cobell at the very least.

30 minutes: Dortmund haven’t done much in attack so far. Sancho switches to the left flank hoping to trigger something, only to telegraph a back heel designed to release Adeyemi.

29 minutes: If PSG’s nerves work, the hosts are not betrayed by them. The ball is patiently patted on the back.

27 minutes: Fabian Ruiz dived in harmlessly from distance. A few boos from the home fans, perhaps the first sign of frayed nerves tonight.

25 minutes: Mbappe almost manages to overpower Ryerson on the left, so much so that the Dortmund full-back is forced to clear the ball while walking on all fours pantomime-style. For some reason, PSG are not awarded a corner, but there have been worse injustices Champions League this season. The penalty that Füllkrug missed in the first leg, for example.

24 minutes: The pace drops a bit for the first time tonight. Borussia Dortmund will be quite pleased with the way this has gone so far; Kobel has not had a serious job.

22 minutes: Hakimi has an opportunity to play Dembele on the right, but overdoes the spinning pass. Kick from the door. “I prefer to think that Mbappe adheres to the shoe philosophy of the character Milligan in Spike Milligan’s Puckoon,” begins Stephen Davenport. “Blacks don’t show the dirt, browns don’t show the mud, and a good pair of green boots won’t show the grass.”

20 minutes: Dembele shoots low and crosses into Dortmund’s penalty area from the right. Any touch on it and it deflects into the net, but there’s no one in blue nearby.

19 minutes: However, Sancho is not deterred and faces Nuno Mendes again. He wins a corner from which Ryerson fires a superb shot into the right netting. To repeat: this does not end without a goal. It won’t do. It certainly can’t.

17 minutes: Nuno Mendes was a bit missed by Sancho last week, so he does well here to block his opponent who almost clears on the right with a shoulder drop. A well-timed boot stops Sancho’s gallop.

15 minutes: Ryerson makes his way down the right flank. He has the right to go down under serious pressure from Nuno Mendes, but stubbornly stays on his feet and enters the penalty area, then loses control. Mbappe then tries to break up with a balletic turn on the left touchline, but is out of space. Throw. This is already shaping up to be a lot of fun with both teams going all out.

13 minutes: PSG countered at speed and Gonzalo Ramos spun on the edge of the D before firing a first-time shot inches wide into the bottom left corner. If that was the goal, Cobell might not have made it in time. There is no way this match will end 0-0. Then again, the first leg really should have resulted in at least seven or eight goals, so you can never be 100 percent sure.

12 minutes: Marquinhos, under pressure from the speedy Adeyemi, fired a reverse pass to Donnarumma, who almost beat the keeper and found the bottom right corner. Donnarumma does very well with his footwork to deflect the ball away from danger. From the resulting throw, Adeyemi shot shyly at goal, which was deflected for a corner. Nothing comes from the set piece.

10 minutes: This is played at 101 kilometers for each of your French hours. The referee let it flow. “I’m glad to see that, judging by his choice of green boots tonight, Mbappe has finally made up his mind about his future – he’s signing for Celtic.” Very truly yours, Stephen McCrossan.

8 minutes: Sancho instigates a high-tempo one-two down the right with Sabitzer… but doesn’t get the return pass. If Sabitzer had noticed his team-mate’s intention, Sancho was far to the flank.

7 minutes: PSG get a lot of joy down the right. This time Dembele turns on the jets but can’t quite get away from Adeyemi. However, he gains an angle. Dortmund really didn’t handle the set piece and the ball falls to Mbappe, just inside the box on the left. Mbappe meets it with a sweet volley, but there isn’t enough power behind him and it’s easy for Kobell too. The hosts will be very pleased with these early exchanges.

5 minutes: More space for Hakimi on the right wing. He looks for Gonzalo Ramos in the middle but heads his cross to Kobel at the near post. The guard gathers. Some positive early moves from the hosts.

4 minutes: Little space for Hakimi down right. A low cross is met by Gonzalo Ramos, who puts in a leg and directs a shot straight at Kobel. Not enough power to catch the keeper.

2 minutes: Sancho makes his first touch of the evening. Whistles for the first player of the match. Home fans know danger when they see it. Then a free kick from the right. Maatsen winds it up but it’s easy meat for Donnarumma. Still, it will give visitors an early boost.

PSG, with a goal behind after the first match, start the second! There is a huge buzz around the Parc des Princes. There it is, then!

The teams are out! PSG in blue and red, BVB in yellow and black. Music. These are the best teams! Sie sind die allerbesten Mannschaften! These are the champions! What an atmosphere, with red pyrotechnics filling the spring Parisian sky. We will leave after Emre Can receives the receipt that pennant. Don’t look too closely Emre, you have to run for 90 minutes.

Pendent Clock: Update. “PSG have previous moments,” reports Joe Pearson. “I did the same when they met Sociedad earlier in the campaign.” Gosh, their designer is really earning his keep this season. Also very nice, if a bit too moody to be classed as funky. Or psychedelic. Having said that, you wouldn’t want to stare at it for too long after a Mate gourd and 20 B&H.

Pendent clock. This must surely be the funniest commemorative flag in European Cup history. Is it considered psychedelic? Probably not, although you wouldn’t want to stare at it for too long after a cup of strong sweetened tea and a hand-rolled cigarette.

PSG make two changes to their starting XI after last week’s first leg. Gonzalo Ramos and Lucas Beraldo come in for Bradley Barcola, who drops to the bench, and Lucas Hernandez, who tore his ACL in Dortmund.

Borussia Dortmund are in If Not Broken mode. They name the exact same XI that started their victory at the Westfalenstadion. Meanwhile, they beat Augsburg 5-1 in the Bundesliga; PSG did not play last weekend.

The teams

Preamble