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 had been hardly ever troubled by Sporting and coasted by means of.
Dortmund’s reward is a final 16 sport in opposition to Aston Villa or Lille.
It was at all times a tricky ask for this younger Sporting facet ravaged by harm to overturn the injury performed 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 acquired the possibility 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 move break up the guests’ defence.
However Guirassy’s well-hit penalty was saved beautifully by the Portuguese goalkeeper low to his proper, denying the Guinean striker an eleventh Champions League objective in 10 video games this season.
Gio Reyna got here off the bench and virtually made a direct affect in opposition to 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 course.
In the end, Sporting lacked the ambition to show across the tie, permitting Niko Kovac’s facet to progress on the again of a comparatively straightforward evening’s work.
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