Dortmund vs PSG LIVE: Result and reaction from Champions League fixture tonight
Follow live coverage from the crunch Champions League match this evening
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Your support makes all the difference.Borussia Dortmund teenager Erling Haaland scored twice in eight minutes to lead his team to a 2-1 victory over Paris St Germain in their Champions League Round of 16 first leg on Tuesday.
The Norwegian 19-year-old, who has already netted eight times in five Bundesliga matches, stabbed in from close range after a quickfire passing move in the 69th minute and then thundered in an unstoppable shot for his second in the 77th, two minutes after Neymar had levelled for the French champions.
Haaland has now scored 10 Champions League goals in seven games this season -- eight for Salzburg in the group stage.
PSG, who were eliminated at this stage of the competition in the previous three seasons, had fit-again Neymar and Kylian Mbappe back in the starting lineup but were almost completely shut out by an extremely efficient Dortmund backline.
Neymar, who had been out for weeks with a rib injury, hit the post late on. The return leg is in Paris on March 11.
Match preview
When is the match?
The match kicks off at 8pm UK time at Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion.
What TV channel is it on?
The match will be broadcast live on BT Sport 3, with coverage starting at 7.15pm.
Subscribers can also stream the game via the BT Sport app.
Prediction
Both sides are capable of creativity and calamity and any outcome is possible. PSG go into the Champions League knockout stages with a more balanced midfield than before, and a lot will rest on Idrissa Gueye’s defensive work. Dortmund have looked very vulnerable in defence in recent games and PSG are likely to exploit any weakness.
Borussia Dortmund 2-2 PSG
Good evening and welcome to our live coverage of Borussia Dortmund vs Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League round of 16.
We will start our coverage from 6.30pm. In the meantime, here is Miguel Delaney's preview of the match:
PSG's long-running series of trying to progress past the round of 16 of the Champions League is set for its latest dramatic episode this evening as they travel to Borussia Dortmund. Plenty of goals should be on offer at the Westfalenstadion, with both sides capable of calamity and creativity.
Erling Haaland should make his Champions League debut for the hosts. The teenage sensation has scored five times in less than an hour of Bundesliga action for BVB.
With kick-off over an hour away, why not fill the time by reading our verdict on the remaining sides' chances of lifting the Champions League come May?
Neymar returns from injury for the visitors. PSG line-up like this: Navas, Kurzawa, Silva, Kimpembe, Marquinhos, Meunier, Gueye, Verratti, Di Maria, Neymar, Mbappe.
In fairness to PSG, they've done pretty well in the first leg of knockout stages over the years. They won 2-0 at Old Trafford this time last year, and thrashed Barcelona 4-0 in 2017. No one's coming back from those deficits...
Just the eight goals for Erling Haaland so far in this year's Champions League. Will the Norwegian add to his tally tonight?
Dortmund have scored have scored 28 goals but let in 15 in their last eight games alone. We should be in for a treat tonight.
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