Malaga 0-0 Dortmund: Home team survives because away team is too unlucky!
Playing with the same 4-2-3-1 formation and with their strengths in attacking, both Malaga and Dortmund created an open game in the first half. However, compared to Malaga, Dortmund has more star players. That explains why, although they only had 45% of the ball time in the first half and created not too many outstanding opportunities, the away team's situations were much clearer.
Playing with the same 4-2-3-1 formation and with their strengths in attacking, both Malaga and Dortmund created an open game in the first half. However, compared to Malaga, Dortmund has more star players. That explains why, although they only had 45% of the ball time in the first half and created not too many outstanding opportunities, the away team's situations were much clearer.
Dortmund could not win because they wasted too many opportunities.
Goetze was the central figure in the first 45 minutes. In the 14th and 18th minutes of the match, the No. 10 midfielder had two face-to-face situations with Caballero but could not defeat the home team's last defender. In the 42nd minute, in Malaga's clearest chance of the first half, it was also this attacking midfielder who blocked Toulalan's header right on the goal line.
In the second half, Dortmund aimed to speed up the game and they succeeded in creating an overwhelming game. However, the Ruhr team's finishing ability still had problems. In the 48th minute, Lewandowski missed the center of the ball from less than 10 meters away when he had an open goal in front of him. Not long after, Goetze finished diagonally from a situation of escaping down the right wing, sending the ball across the goal.
Attacking a lot but too unlucky, Dortmund decided to slow down the pace of the match in the last 15 minutes to preserve the 0-0 score and wait for the opportunity in the second leg. The highly anticipated match between the two teams with an attacking style of play ended in a dull manner with no goals scored. With a score of 0-0, the chance to get a ticket to the semi-finals is still divided equally between the two teams in the second leg.
LINEUP
Malaga:Caballero; Gamez, Demichelis, Weligton, Antunes; Toulalan, Iturra; Joaquin, Isco (Duda 87'), Baptista (Santa Cruz 76'); Saviola (Portillo 67').
Dortmund:Weidenfeller; Piszczek, Subotic, Santana, Schmelzer; Kehl (Bender 80'), Gundogan; Reus (Schieber 69'), Goetze (Kirch 90'), Grosskreutz; Lewandowski.
According to Bongdaplus - DT
