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Brick by brick they rebuilt their Yellow Wall here at the Parc des Princes, and come the end it was just too mighty for Paris Saint-Germain and Kylian Mbappe to scale. For Borussia Dortmund, the yellow brick road now leads to London.
It was fitting that site foreman Mats Hummels scored the goal that takes them to Wembley for next month’s final. Not only was the veteran centre-back the best player over both legs - Jadon Sancho was a close second - but he was part of the Dortmund team beaten in the final at the same stadium in 2013. Bayern Munich, their conquerors then, could yet join them for a rematch.
But the showdown we had expected - Mbappe versus Real Madrid, the club he will join this summer - will not happen, and nor did it ever look likely on a night when a dull and insipid PSG were out-shone by their own fans and Edin Terzic’s brave and brilliant Dortmund. We got the right winners, that is for sure.
‘Heart and cries’ screamed the front page of L’Equipe in a rallying call ahead of the game. They got the cries, at least in the form of Parisian tears. As for the heart, well that belonged to Dortmund.
Hummels and sidekick Nico Schlotterbeck pocketed Mbappe in the first leg and they did the same again. The fairytale ending for which he had hoped descended into a nightmare for the striker. Even when he did escape his captors late on, a scuffed shot was flipped onto the crossbar by Dortmund keeper Gregor Kobel.
Borussia Dortmund have qualified for the Champions League final after beating PSG
Dortmund's veteran defender Mats Hummels scored the game's only goal in the second-leg 1-0 win
Paris Saint-Germain players were visibly dejected at full-time after crashing out of the Champions League
PSG fans attempted to create an intimidating atmosphere for Dortmund players at the Parc des Princes
Kylian Mbappe was emotional at full-time as his career in Paris nears its end ahead of a summer move
Mbappe looked to the skies, and it will be there that he soon departs for Madrid. His legacy will be nights like this - so near and so far after seven years of trying, and failing, to return the one crown PSG’s Qatari owners crave.
The club’s ultras, who had worked through the night for three weeks designing a quite magnificent tifo depicting each of their team, made a plea in the hours before kick-off for all supporters to bring ‘fire’ to the stadium.
Having been burnt by the atmosphere in Dortmund last week, when their players managed to freeze amid a cauldron, this was their turn to inspire their own.
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