Luuk De Jong’s penalty cancelled out Donyell Malen’s opener against his old club as two former European champions shared the spoils in this UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg.
PlayStation® Player of the Match: Joey Veerman (PSV)
“He was a leader in midfield, with a superb range of passing but was also very strong defensively.”JAMB Result
UEFA Technical Observer panel
Derek Brookman, PSV reporter
A real ding-dong contest in which, overall, PSV probably had more right to win than their Bundesliga opponents. Tillman, Dest, Saibari and Bakayoko all had clear sights of goal, but none could emulate De Jong in finding the Dortmund net. Nonetheless, Bosz’s side will travel to Germany with the justified belief that they can progress to the next round.
Matthias Rötters, Dortmund reporter
Following Malen’s not-undeserved lead, BVB gradually let control of the game slip and, in the end, can be thankful for the draw.informationguideNigeria
PSV consistently presented major challenges to the Bundesliga side. In the return leg in Dortmund, Edin Terzić’s team will need to rediscover their magic from the group stage or risk elimination to the Eredivisie pacesetters.
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Reaction
Peter Bosz, PSV coach: “Everything is still possible. We’ve already shown this season that we can get results away from home. Particularly when you see how we took control this evening when we had possession. We kept calm under pressure, we didn’t resort to long passes – we played our way out of pressure.”
Joey Veerman, PSV midfielder and Player of the Match: “A 1-1 draw isn’t a bad position to be in. We still have a chance, but we could have made it a bit easier for ourselves. For a lot of guys it was the first time at this stage. And you noticed that in certain choices we made in the first half. But we did much better after the break.”NYSC Portal
Edin Terzić, Dortmund coach, speaking to Amazon Prime:
“The result is such that we still have everything in our own hands. It’s clear that we need to win our home game. But you have to win home games if you want to achieve something. In the first half, we were good and could often shift the ball well. In the second half, we didn’t do so well, and PSV were clearly better. They are leaders of the Eredivisie for a reason. But we still have a good chance of reaching the next round. We need to get it right in the home game.”JAMB Portal
Nico Schlotterbeck, Dortmund defender, speaking to Amazon Prime: “Of course, we would have liked to take the win after taking the lead. In the end, we have to deal with the 1-1 draw. We know we still have the second leg to play. Then, there will be 80,000 people on a Champions League night. We are unbeatable there. We did a decent job today – even against Luuk de Jong. But with the ball, we need to show more in the second leg, and we will.”
Alexander Meyer, BVB goalkeeper, speaking to Amazon Prime: “You always have to be prepared to come on – and that’s what I had to do today. Gregor was having problems during the warm-up. I had to quickly psyche myself up. That’s my job. We started off well and took the lead. But the 1-1 draw is probably fair after the 90 minutes. We know, and our fans know, what needs to be done in the home game. If we deliver that, we’ll make it to the next round.”
Key stats
- Malen hit his first ever goal in the Champions League knockout stages, his strike midway through the first half his first in this competition overall since December 2021.
- Malen is the first Dutchman to score in this competition against a side from Netherlands since Bayern München’s Arjen Robben against PSV in October 2016.
- De Jong’s penalty took his tally for this season to 28 goals across all competitions – the most by a PSV player since De Jong himself hit 32 in the 2018/19 campaign.
- The PSV striker hit his ninth UEFA Champions League goal for the club – surpassing Ruud van Nistelrooy to become the side’s leading scorer in the competition (group stage onwards).
- De Jong’s only previous goal in the knockout rounds of this tournament came for Sevilla against BVB three years ago this month.
Fantasy star performers
Veerman: 7 points
De Jong: 6 points
Malen: 6 points
Sabitzer: 6 points
Line-ups
PSV: Benítez; Teze, Schouten, Boscagli (Obispo 90), Dest; Tillman, Veerman, Saibari (Mauro Júnior 83); Bakayoko, De Jong, Lozano (Pepi 75)
Dortmund: Meyer; Ryerson, Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Maatsen; Sabitzer, Can; Malen (Salih Özcan 82), Reus (Brandt 62), Sancho (Wolf 68); Füllkrug (Moukoko 82
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