Borussia Dortmund made a right mess out of their season with an abysmal performance and a painful defeat at the hands of Sporting Clube de Portugal in Lisbon. Going into this matchday, the Germans needed a win in Portugal to secure qualification. But their trouble was that Sporting had ideas of their own.The green and whites needed to win by a two-goal margin to overtake BVB and pip them to a top-two spot. And what did they do? They grabbed the game with both hands and made the yellow-blacks suffer hard.Pedro ‘Pote’ Goncalves, Sporting’s 23-year-old midfielder scored two goals in less than ten minutes to make it 2-0 and push the Haaland-less visitors on the brink of the abyss.Terrible defensive work cost Dortmund dearly as Goncalves stamped his authority on the game in front of a noisy crowd at Estadio Jose Alvalade.Sporting CP upset the odds to qualify for the RO16, dumping BVB out ❌ pic.twitter.com/upfE0Dy2As— 433 (@433) November 24, 2021 Marco Rose’s team finally realized that they will have to get their act together and try to score at least one goal on the night if they were to continue their Champions League adventure. And they did start to push forward after the break.One of Dortmund’s most experienced players, Emre Can, let the nerves get the better of him as he lashed out at Pedro Porro off the ball and earned himself a straight red card.As if you needed any more proof of this being an utterly wrong night for the German side, their substitute defender Dan-Axel Zagadou made a clumsy challenge in his box and gifted a penalty kick to the opposition.𝙀𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙈𝙊𝙎 𝙉𝙊𝙎 𝙊𝙄𝙏𝘼𝙑𝙊𝙎-𝘿𝙀-𝙁𝙄𝙉𝘼𝙇!!! ✨Leões de garra, Leões de raça, Leões de ALMA! 🦁 A nossa equipa consegue uma enorme vitória diante o @BVB e segue em frente na @ChampionsLeague 🙌 #UCL #OndeVaiUmVãoTodos pic.twitter.com/lrTLC3UhiQ— Sporting Clube de Portugal 🏆 (@Sporting_CP) November 24, 2021 Pedro Goncalves had a chance to bag a hat-trick, but his spot-kick was parried by Gregor Kobel. On a normal night, that would have been the end of the story – but not tonight. Pedro Porro arrived out of nowhere and slammed the rebound into the net to make it 3-0 and kick off wild celebrations in the stands.Malen did score deep in injury time to give his team a glimmer of hope, but it was too little too late. Dortmund are out of the Champions League. Erling Haaland is now playing for a team out of Europe’s best competition. Surely this spells his end at Westfallenstadion.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUEGroup stageTuesdayDynamo Kyiv – Bayern 1-2 (0-2)/Garmash 70 – Lewandowski 14, Coman 42/Villareal – Manchester United 0-2 (0-0)/Ronaldo 78, Sancho 90/Barcelona- Benfica 0-0Young Boys – Atalanta 3-3 (1-1)/Siebatcheu 39, Sierro 80, Hefti 84 – Zapata 10, Palomino 51, Muriel 87/Lille – Salzburg 1-0 (1-0)/David 31/Sevilla – Wolfsburg 2-0 (1-0)/Jordan 12, Mir 90+7/Chelsea – Juventus 4-0 (1-0)/Chalobah 25, James 55, Hudson-Odoi 58, Warner 90+5/Malmo – Zenit 1-1 (1-0)/Rieks 28 – Rakitskiy 90+2/WednesdayBesiktas – Ajax 1-2 (1-0)/Ghezzal 22 pen – Haller 54, 69/Inter – Shakhtar 2-0 (0-0)/Dzeko 62, 67/Club Brugge – RB Leipzig 0-5 (0-4)/Nkunku 12, 90+3, Forsberg 17 pen, 45+1, Andre Silva 27/Manchester City – Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 (0-0)/Sterling 63, Jesus 77 – Mbappe 50/Atletico Madrid – Milan 0-1 (0-0)/Messias 86/Liverpool – Porto 2-0 (0-0)/Alcantara 52, Salah 70/Sporting – Dortmund 3-1 (2-0)/Goncalves 30, 39, Porro 81 – Malen 90+3/Sheriff Tiraspol – Real Madrid 0-3 (0-2)/Alaba 30, Kroos 45+1, Benzema 55/