Borussia Dortmund cruised into the final 16 of the Champions League after a goalless draw with Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday sealed a 3-0 combination victory.
Serhou Guirassy missed a second-half penalty however it mattered for nothing in the long run as final season’s finalists have been not often troubled by Sporting and coasted by means of.
Dortmund’s reward is a final 16 recreation towards Aston Villa or Lille.
It was all the time a troublesome ask for this younger Sporting aspect ravaged by harm to overturn the injury accomplished in final week’s first leg, when Guirassy, Pascal Gross and Karim Adeyemi all scored.
Dortmund dominated a lot of the return leg on a freezing evening in Germany, with Marcel Sabitzer coming closest to breaking the impasse with a rasping drive from distance that Sporting goalkeeper Rui Silva did effectively to palm round his publish.
After the break, Dortmund bought the prospect to place the tie to mattress from the spot when Silva was adjudged to have introduced down Adeyemi within the field after Nico Schlotterbeck’s lengthy cross cut up the guests’ defence.
However Guirassy’s well-hit penalty was saved fantastically by the Portuguese goalkeeper low to his proper, denying the Guinean striker an eleventh Champions League aim in 10 video games this season.
Gio Reyna got here off the bench and nearly made a right away affect towards the Portuguese league leaders, hitting the publish, however this was an evening when Dortmund created little and Sporting even much less, with the guests failing to register a single shot on the right track.
In the end, Sporting lacked the ambition to show across the tie, permitting Niko Kovac’s aspect to progress on the again of a comparatively simple evening’s work.
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