Manchester City scored twice within the second half by means of Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden to beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 on Wednesday (April 14) and reach the Champions League semi-finals for the primary time in six years. Foden, who scored the winner of their 2-1 first-leg victory, fired in off the submit within the 76th minute after Mahrez had transformed a Fifty fifth-minute penalty to safe a 4-2 mixture triumph and ship City into the final 4 for the second time.
“It means a lot, this club this team deserves it,” City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan stated. “We are grateful for being in a great competition, reaching the semi-final for the first time with this team. This Borussia team has a lot of quality,” he stated.
“On a good day they can beat everyone. It’s about staying in the game, attitude, personality, especially in that stage of the competition.”
Dortmund had gone forward when striker Erling Haaland chased down a deep cross, the ball falling to Jude Bellingham and {the teenager} curling his shot into the highest nook within the fifteenth minute for his first Champions League aim. Premier League leaders City, eradicated within the quarter-finals of the competitors within the earlier three years, will face Paris St Germain within the semi-finals after the French champions knocked out holders Bayern Munich on Tuesday.
City supervisor Pep Guardiola reached his eighth Champions League semi-final as a coach, equalling Jose Mourinho, and his first with the English membership. The Spaniard had made seven modifications from Saturday’s workforce that misplaced to Leeds United but it surely was Dortmund who appeared more energizing and went forward by means of a superb strike by English teenager Bellingham who scored his first Bundesliga aim at the weekend.
City, confronted with a fourth consecutive quarter-final exit, upped the tempo and Kevin De Bruyne rattled the submit with a Twenty fifth-minute shot. Mahrez was denied by Bellingham’s clearance as City took management of the sport, however the Algerian did higher 10 minutes after the restart when he transformed a spot-kick awarded for a handball by Dortmund defender Emre Can, whose mistake additionally gifted City their opening aim within the first leg.
The hosts tried arduous to get again into the sport and Mats Hummels’ 69th-minute header fizzed narrowly over the bar. The Germans, nonetheless, had been opening up extra as they appeared for the winner that might take the sport into additional time and City discovered the house they wanted to strike once more. De Bruyne pressured a great save from Dortmund keeper Marwin Hitz within the seventy fifth minute earlier than Foden scored with the very subsequent transfer to settle the tie and preserve City on target to win 4 main trophies this season.
“Obviously, this is bitterly disappointing. We were in the next round after three of the four halves in this tie,” stated Dortmund coach Edin Terzic. “We tried to keep it tight and we managed to do that for much of the game. Now we will spend the remainder of Wednesday feeling disappointed. But City played outstanding football in both matches and deserved to go through,” he stated.
