Borussia Dortmund blitz Sporting CP in second-half rout

By Ultan Corcoran@UltanCorcoran

Borussia Dortmund made the journey to tackle Sporting Lisbon this night within the UEFA Champions League play-off first-leg which led to a 3-0 for the German membership.

 

After final weekend’s home stutter, Niko Kovac sealed his first-ever win as Borussia Dortmund head coach this night within the Portuguese capital. Die Schwarzgelben handed a difficult job towards Sporting CP with flying colors. 

Rui Borges’ group appeared sharper within the opening exchanges with Quenda threatening. Maxi Araújo Thirteenth-minute effort cracked off Gregor Kobel’s crossbar with the Swiss shot-stopper at full stretch. 

Apart from a few tame corners, together with one which Emre Can did his finest to steer on course, the BVB assault was comparatively tame at instances. An extended vary effort from Konrad More durable saved Kobel trustworthy as soon as once more. 

The majority of Dortmund’s first-half pleasure got here via diagonal switches as they appeared to isolate the Sporting full-backs with Adeyemi and Gittens’ tempo. 

BVB’s finest probability was solely created by the Englishman who reduce inside and whipped his shot simply outdoors the left publish as Rui Silva scrambled in despair. 

The second-half introduced on an elevated wave of Schwarzgelben strain – Gittens went shut once more earlier than Rui Silva was compelled into a pointy save within the Fifty fifth-minute to repel Adeyemi. 

Any fan could possibly be forgiven for considering the introduction of Viktor Gyökeres would have opened the goal-scoring, however in reality Serhou Guirassy broke the impasse. Julian Brandt’s cross discovered the Guinean striker who looped his header over a rooted Rui Silva. 

Approaching the Seventieth-minute, Niko Kovac’s males doubled their benefit. It what was a mirror-image assault, Guirassy turned supplier to pick Pascal Groß. The 33-year-old’s again publish run enabled him to knee the ball to the web with an unorthodox end. 

A blissful evening for Borussia Dortmund was summed up within the 82nd-minute as Karim Adeyemi made it 3-0. A swift counterattack from a Sporting nook allowed the 23-year-old time to play a one-two with Brandt and clip the ball previous Rui Silva on the rear publish.