Courage, will, passion - after the Amsterdam lesson, BVB showed a reaction, but is not rewarded.
After the early red card for Mats Hummels, Ajax turned the game around in the second half.
Now there is a final against Sporting.
Dortmund - More passion, but again no points - Borussia Dortmund has missed the hoped-for revenge for the embarrassing 0: 4 in Amsterdam and a big step towards the last sixteen of the Champions League. Handicapped by the questionable red card for defense chief Mats Hummels (29th minute), coach Marco Rose's team suffered the next setback against the Dutch champions at 1: 3 (1: 0).
After the interim BVB leadership by Marco Reus (37th / penalty kick), Dusan Tadic (72nd), the ex-Frankfurt Sebastien Haller (83rd) and the former Werderaner Davy Klaassen (90th + 3) met in front of 54,820 spectators Signal Iduna Park on the deserved success of the league leaders, who is already qualified for the round of 16. For Borussia, the upcoming game on November 24th against rivals Sporting Lisbon with the same number of points will be a kind of final for second place.
Both teams fought a heated duel, to which the English referee Michael Oliver contributed with his decisions.
Especially the red card for Hummels heated the minds.
The 2014 world champion brought down Antony with a tackle, but hardly hit the high-jumping Ajax professional.
The video referee did not want to reverse the decision either.
On the other hand, the VAR intervened in the Dortmund penalty kick.
Noussair Mazraoui had actually touched Bellingham while running.
But whether it was also the reason for the fall of the Englishman remained questionable.
After these two scenes at the latest, there was finally fire in the party.
The fact that it was a completely different game than the lesson in Amsterdam was mainly due to BVB.
As requested by coach Marco Rose, the black and yellow appeared more courageous, more aggressive and with a completely different pressing.
That had an effect on the Dutch, the otherwise excellent passing game didn’t work as well as in the first leg.
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After just 72 seconds, Hummels headed the first chance to take the lead. It was the signal for a strong start in Dortmund. The greatest opportunity to lead was missed by Bellingham, who headed past the empty gate. Previously, Thorgan Hazard had just been stopped by Ajax keeper Remko Pasveer. Hazard (13th) and Reus (25th) had other good opportunities before the red card for Hummels created completely new conditions.
With anger in their stomach, BVB continued to look for their chances and was rewarded with Reus' penalty goal. Then striker Erling Haaland - dressed in a black cap and black sweater - jumped up in the stands. The star striker has to pause for several weeks with an injury to his hip flexor, this time Steffen Tigges was allowed to play. The youngster scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2-0 win against Cologne at the weekend.
After conceding the goal, however, the Dutch came up in the majority and ensured a phase in which the BVB back team came under considerable pressure before the break.
A shot by Lisandro Martinez just outside the goal (44th), then a header on the crossbar (45th) and finally a huge chance from Steven Berghuis, which Gregor Kobel parried (45th + 2) - BVB longed for it staggering Break whistle.
Before it started again, Haaland encouraged his colleagues once more - and Bellingham almost scored the second goal.
A passionate performance from Dortmund, although eight players were missing injured.
And number nine was added in the person of Marius Wolf, who had to leave the field after a good hour with muscular problems.
For his colleagues it became more and more of a defensive battle.
BVB was hardly able to provide relief.
And so the goal was almost the logical consequence.
After a cross from Antony, Marin Pongracic unlucky extended the ball, so that Tadic was able to push the ball over the line at the far post.
And it got worse.
After another cross from Antony, Haller heads to victory before Klaassen makes everything clear.
dpa
