Borussia Dortmund and PSG reach the Champions League semi-finals

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Madrid.-Borussia Dortmund, which defeated Atlético Madrid 4-2 in Germany, and Paris Saint Germain, who turned the series around and beat Barcelona 4-1, will star in one of the semifinals of the 2024 Champions League.

The other semi-final will come from the match between Manchester City and Real Madrid this Wednesday (3-3 in the first leg) and Bayern Munich-Arsenal (2-2 in the first leg).

In Atlético Madrid, the Argentines Nahuel Molina started (he came out at halftime replaced by Pablo Barrios) and Rodrigo de Paul, who played 83 minutes and was replaced by Saúl. Meanwhile, Ángel Correa participated in the entire second stage, replacing Alvaro Morata, and scored the goal that had given the team led by Diego Simeone the tie and qualification.

But Dortmund, which led 2-0 at the end of the first stage with goals from Julian Brandt and the Dutchman Ian Maatsen, was able to react and with two goals in three minutes from Niklas Fullkrug and the Austrian Marcel Sabitzer, they went on to win 4-2 and secured advancement to the semifinals.

For its part, Barcelona, ​​which had won 3 to 2 last week in Paris, started winning at the Montjuich Olympic Stadium with a goal from Brazilian Raphinha 12 minutes into the opening stage following an overflow on the right by the youth Lamine Yamal.

But at 28, Uruguayan defender Ronald Araujo was sent off for a last resort infringement on Ousmane Dembelé and that seemed to dismember the Catalans who were never able to regain control of the game and collapsed football and emotionally.

Dembelé himself tied the game following 40 minutes and in the second half, the French counterattacks and the defensive hesitation of the Spaniards turned the proceedings upside down.

In the 54th minute, a tight right-footed shot from outside the area by the Portuguese Vitinha put PSG ahead, which defined the result and the classification with two goals from its megastar Kylian Mbappe: in the 61st minute he converted from a penalty following a foul inside the area by Joao Cancelo. Dembele closed the score in the 88th minute following the French forwards won three consecutive rebounds in the Barcelona area. In this way, PSG once once more got into the top four in Europe and will go to the semi-finals once morest Dortmund on a date to be determined during the month of May. Page 12.