Champions League Results: Brace Halland Strengthens Dortmund's Step Into The Quarter-finals

Erling Haaland (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The brace scored by Erling Haaland solidified Borussia Dortmund's move to the Champions League quarter-finals. Dortmund were matched by Sevilla 2-2 in the second leg of the last 16 at Signal Iduna Park Stadium on Wednesday morning.

The result was enough for Dortmund to emphasize their lead in the last two legs of 16 which ended 5-4 on aggregate over Sevilla.

According to Antara, Sevilla, who arrived with the task of overturning a 2-3 defeat in the first leg, started the match aggressively but Lucas Ocampos' long-range shot was countered by goalkeeper Marwin Hitz.

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The visitors created another chance in the 20th minute, unfortunately Suso's shot to welcome Ocampos' pass was still slightly off the outside of the goalpost.

Despite being much more under pressure, Dortmund broke the deadlock and opened the scoring in the 35th minute when Marco Reus' lure cross was completed to perfection by Haaland at the mouth of the goal.

The advantage lasted until halftime and four minutes into the second half, Haaland returned to cross into the Sevilla goal.

However, referee Cuneyt Cakir disallowed the goal at VAR's input and Dortmund instead received a penalty after judging Haaland to be violated by Jules Kounde.

The execution of the penalty was also full of drama, because Haaland's first shot was stopped by Bono, but the goalkeeper was considered by the referee to leave his line too quickly so that the execution had to be repeated.

On the second occasion Haaland directed his shot into the bottom right corner of the net to double Dortmund's lead in the 53rd minute.

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In the 68th minute, it was Sevilla's turn to win a penalty after Emre Can was accused of pushing Luuk de Jong in the forbidden box.

Youssef En-Nesyri took the opportunity perfectly, who coldly directed his penalty execution in the middle, hitting the crossbar before sinking into the goal.

Five minutes from normal time, Dortmund almost snatched their win over early when Mahoud Dahoud finished a one-two with Haaland with a close-range shot, unfortunately Bono was able to dispel the opportunity.

Despite running out of time the Sevilla players continued to struggle and in the sixth minute of injury time En-Nesyri scored his second goal with a close-range header to greet Ivan Rakitic's measured cross to equalize 2-2.

Unfortunately, the 2-2 score was not enough for Sevilla to prevent them from being eliminated from the Champions League, where Dortmund advanced to the quarter-finals with a 5-4 aggregate victory.

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