Wed 8th March - Borussia Dortmund (4) 4-0 (1) Benfica

[Steve Bruce Almighty 2,943]

2nd leg, 7:45pm, Wednesday 8th March 2017

Match chat here.

[Eco 2,117]

Hope Dortmund can get the win. Wasn't able to watch the first leg, but I'm going to do what I can to watch this tomorrow. 

[Relling 153]

Should be a great match. I think Dortmund are in with a good chance of turning it around. A pity that Reus is missing. 

[Inverted 1,339]

Have a bad feeling that Dortmund will outclass Benfica again, but struggle.

I'll be watching and wishing for the BVB, because with Portuguese teams wacky results are always possible.

[Tommy 5,126]

Hopefully Pulisic will play for Reus instead of Schürrle! 

[Machado 1,276]

I think we'll lose but hopefully it's 2-1 

[God is Haaland 584]

7 hours ago, Relling said:

Should be a great match. I think Dortmund are in with a good chance of turning it around. A pity that Reus is missing. 

and possibly Guerreiro

[God is Haaland 584]

5 hours ago, Tsubasa said:

Hopefully Pulisic will play for Reus instead of Schürrle! 

This

[Eco 2,117]

Pulisic has to start tonight. With his most recent form...he just has to...

[Tommy 5,126]

BVB's line-up tonight: Bürki - Schmelzer, Bartra, Sokratis, Piszczek - Weigl, Durm, Castro, Pulisic, Dembele - Aubameyang

 

Looking good 

[Stan 10,846]

7 hours ago, Machado said:

I think we'll lose but hopefully it's 2-1 

I think it'll be this which is sad  because I prefer Dortmund. I wouldn't begrudge Benfica going through though. Strong and under-rated team.

[Eco 2,117]

42 minutes ago, Tsubasa said:

BVB's line-up tonight: Bürki - Schmelzer, Bartra, Sokratis, Piszczek - Weigl, Durm, Castro, Pulisic, Dembele - Aubameyang

 

Looking good 

Damn straight!

[Inverted 1,339]

Commentator on my American stream just referred to the Westfalenstadion as "BVB Stadium". And he said BVB in the English way.

Disgusting. 

[Eco 2,117]

3 minutes ago, Inverted said:

Commentator on my American stream just referred to the Westfalenstadion as "BVB Stadium". And he said BVB in the English way.

Disgusting. 

Yeah - they did as well on FS2. I've gotten so used to it that it doesn't bother me much. However, the guys on FS2 are English. 

[Stan 10,846]

3 minutes ago, Inverted said:

Commentator on my American stream just referred to the Westfalenstadion as "BVB Stadium". And he said BVB in the English way.

Disgusting. 

I don't think they're allowed to use stadiums names like we're used to (dumb rule for European games, I know).

Man City's isn't called the Etihad; ours isn't called King Power. 

[Eco 2,117]

GOOOAAAAALLLLL

1-0 BVB!!!!!!

[Eco 2,117]

Aubameyang with a wide open header to tie it up on aggregate. 

Needless to say, Benfica can't be feel good now that BvB have scored just 4 minutes into the match. 

[Inverted 1,339]

Yasss Auba.

On the naming thing: ok so they can't call it the Signal Iduna, but why not the Westfalenstadion?

[Eco 2,117]

Auba + Dembele = the most exciting duo to me in the Bundesliga. 

[Eco 2,117]

GOOOOAAAALLLLL

 

PULISIC!!! THE AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!

[Eco 2,117]

ABU! 3-0 Dortmund!!!!!

[Stan 10,846]

Dortmund score 2 in 2 minutes after half-time to make it 3-0 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate.

[Stan 10,846]

4-0 Dortmund. Absolutely smashed it tonight.

[Eco 2,117]

Abu with the hat trick. 

Dortmund is through. 

[Eco 2,117]

@Tsubasa - Talk to me sir, where did you watch? How do you feel? 

[Tommy 5,126]

Phew, after the 1:0 we suddenly played so shaky and Benfica played really well. Pulisic with the important 2:0 and then Auba brought it home. Great match altogether. Pulisic, Dembele, Weigl were all awesome, but how good did Marc Bartra get? Dodgy first half of the season, but now he oozes confidence and class! 

[Eco 2,117]

Just now, Tsubasa said:

Phew, after the 1:0 we suddenly played so shaky and Benfica played really well. Pulisic with the important 2:0 and then Auba brought it home. Great match altogether. Pulisic, Dembele, Weigl were all awesome, but how good did Marc Bartra get? Dodgy first half of the season, but now he oozes confidence and class! 

So happy for you man! Great performance...

[God is Haaland 584]

Somebody A) is not American and B) never visited reddit.

[Machado 1,276]

Couldn't watch the game unfortunately but 4-0 is shit in any case.

Looking at PSG it doesn't seem too bad though. I guess it can happen at this level. Barça themselves got battered in the first hand.

 

On another note, only twice this season we have played in a 4-3-3. Lost both games... 4-0 and 4-2. It's shameful that we're afraid to play with only two midfielders against the toughest opponents.