Japan international Shinji Kagawa kept Borussia Dortmund's Champions League hopes alive with a timely finish from a well-worked attack.
Kagawa's goal made it 3-2, and elevated the Borussia Dortmund-Monaco tie to officially bonkers.
Thomas Tuchel sent on Christian Pulisic and Nuri Sahin to start the second half with Borussia Dortmund trailing Monaco 2-0, and the match has immediately turned in favor of the German club.
Dortmund have now halved the deficit after a ridiculously acrobatic backheel flick from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang found Shinji Kagawa behind the defense. He squared it to Ousmane Dembele and the youngster tapped it in.
It’s been a difficult opening 45 for Borussia Dortmund against AS Monaco in their Champions League quarterfinal first leg at the Westfalenstadion. The match, which was postponed until today after a terrorist attack on Dortmund’s team bus, has been evenly contest, but Monaco have benefitted from two refereeing decisions and a comical own goal.
Frauke Koehle, a spokeswoman for Germany’s federal state prosecutor in Karlsruhe, has confirmed that the three explosives that were detonated outside the Borussia Dortmund team bus were pipe bombs capable of traveling more than 330 feet. One of the three explosive devices contained metal strips, according to prosecutors, including one pin that pierced a headrest of a bus seat.
Police and Borussia Dortmund officials confirmed that an incident occured near the team's bus Tuesday. One person was injured.
A police spokesman told the Associated Press that three explosions hit the Dortmund bus.
Borussia Dortmund were scheduled to play Monaco in a Champions League quarterfinal later today, but the match has been postponed until 12:45 p.m. EST Wednesday.
Juventus vs. Barcelona: A clash of defense and offense in Turin
Last five games
Juve: WLDWW
Barca: LWWWL
A repeat of 2014/15 Champions League final sees the Spanish champions Barcelona traveling to Turin to take on the Italian champions Juventus. Although on paper this looks like a mouthwatering clash that can go either way, recent forms suggest Juve are the clear favorites to get an all important first leg win at home.
There are any number of farm and construction machines Bayern Munich could be accurately compared to: a threshing machine, for example. I think the best comparison, though, is the steamroller, because there's nothing you can do to a steamroller that will stop it from crushing you. Nothing.
Borussia Dortmund played the part of asphalt Saturday as Bayern Rolled over them, 4-1.
Don't expect a competitive affair in tomorrow morning's Der Klassiker with both Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund looking ahead to their upcoming Champions League quarterfinals. Expect both teams to rest quite a few of their star players as they try to conserve energy and fitness for these huge games.
Borussia Dortmund will have one eye on AS Monaco, Ligue 1's only remaining club. Monaco did more than prove themselves in the round of 16 after defeating Pep Guardiola's Manchester City. That match comes on Tuesday, only three days after Der Klassiker.
The 150th meeting between Ruhr-based clubs Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 ended in a 1-1 draw at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, but the match was not without its fair share of wonderful moments.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang gave the visitors the lead in the 53rd-minute, but Schalke academy project Thilo Kehrer scored his first-ever Schalke goal in the 77th to split the spoils. Here’s how it all went down.
Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 will meet once again in the Revierderby Saturday. They last met in a nil-nil draw on October 29, 2016.
This will be the 150th iteration of the derby. Schalke leads the all-time series with 58 wins to Borussia Dortmund's 51. They have drawn 40 times.
The first match between the two teams took place on May 3, 1925, with Schalke winning 4-2. Schalke won all three matchups against Dortmund that season.