PARIS OLYMPIC GAMES
Mats Hummels scored the defining goal as Borussia Dortmund booked their place in the Champions League final, defeating Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 on Tuesday to complete a 2-0 aggregate victory.
Moments after Warren Zaïre-Emery missed an open goal for PSG, Hummels’ header from Julian Brandt’s corner in the 50th minute was his first goal in the knockout rounds of the Champions League for the first time since February 2013 against Shakhtar Donetsk.
Dortmund advanced 2-0 on aggregate and largely contained PSG striker Kylian Mbappé, who is leaving at the end of the season.
PSG had long spells of possession in the last 10 minutes.
Goalkeeper Gregor Kobel palmed away Mbappé’s low shot, then pushed Mbappé’s deflected close-range effort onto the crossbar with a superb one-handed save.
The Parc des Princes crowd groaned when midfielder Vitinha’s thumping 25-metre strike rattled the woodwork.
“I don’t know what to say,” a distraught-looking Vitinha said.
Coach Edin Terzić’s team will play either record 14-time champion Real Madrid or six-time winner Bayern Munich on June 1 at Wembley Stadium.
Madrid and Bayern drew 2-2 in the first leg, which was played on Wednesday.
“Extremely proud. I’m very happy; I think we deserved to go to the final,” Terzić said.
He added: “We beat a team like PSG two times, and we again kept a clean sheet. We started really well and kept them away from the goal.”
Dortmund is on track for its second Champions League trophy after winning in 1997, as well as a third European trophy after winning the now-defunct UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup in 1966.
Dortmund also reached the Champions League final in 2013, losing to Bayern.
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