Borussia Dortmund sailed into the final 16 of the Champions League after a cushty 0-0 draw with Sporting CP.
Serhou Guirassy, who’s main the Champions League scoring charts, missed a second-half penalty spot for BVB, however Niko Kovac’s aspect had little hassle in securing a 3-0 mixture victory.
Certainly, Sporting had only one shot on the right track and created probabilities value simply 0.34 anticipated objectives all through.
Guirassy’s miss got here simply earlier than the hour, after Karim Adeyemi had been felled by Sporting goalkeeper Rui Silva.
Nevertheless, Silva atoned with a high-quality save, one in every of 5 stops he made on the evening.
Emre Also can had a objective disallowed for Dortmund, who will tackle Aston Villa or Lille within the final 16.
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Guirassy grew to become the primary Dortmund participant to fail to attain a penalty within the Champions League since Marco Reus towards Barcelona in September 2019. The Guinean had scored every of his earlier 5 penalties within the competitors.
Dortmund, although, hardly needed to break sweat towards a Sporting aspect with out attacking talisman Viktor Gyokeres.
BVB have now reached the final 16 of the Champions League for a 3rd straight season, having completed as runners-up to Actual Madrid final time period.
Solely Celtic (eight) have performed extra video games within the knockout levels of the Champions League with out recording a win than Sporting (six – D2 L4), with the Portuguese aspect failing to attain in 5 of these video games.
