Champs League: Big match feature
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Champs League: Big match feature
Despite Cristiano Ronaldo's 50th Champions League goal in Dortmund, Madrid need a big improvement against visitors who have already come close to winning in the Spanish capital this season. When Klopp's men visited the Merengues in Group D in November, they led 2-1 until Mesut Özil's 89th-minute free-kick equaliser.
While Dortmund are eyeing a second European Cup final, Madrid are aiming for their 13th. They have suffered three semi-final defeats since last lifting the trophy in 2002 but have got the better of Dortmund at this stage before.
To repeat their 1998 success against the Bundesliga side, Madrid must match the record for the biggest first-leg victory overturned in the competition's Champions League era. AC Milan lost 4-0 at RC Deportivo La Coruña in the 2003/04 quarterfinals having won 4-1 at home.
Past meetings
Madrid ended Dortmund's reign as European champions in the 1997/98 semifinals. Fernando Morientes and Christian Karembeu's first-leg goals in the Spanish capital earned a 2-0 aggregate triumph for Jupp Heynckes' charges, who went on to collect the trophy.Current Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc and youth team coordinator Lars Ricken featured in both games for Nevio Scala's side.
The full lineups for that first leg in Madrid on 1 April 1998 were:
Madrid: Illgner, Panucci, Sanchís, Sanz, Roberto Carlos, Karembeu, Redondo, Seedorf, Raúl, Morientes (Jaime 88), Mijatovic (Šuker 51).
Dortmund: Klos, Julio César, Binz, Kree, Reuter, Freund, But, Reinhardt, Ricken (Zorc 81), Chapuisat, Herrlich (Decheiver 47).
Madrid qualified in second place, one point above Dortmund.
The full lineups for that 19 February 2003 encounter in Madrid were:
Madrid: Casillas, Salgado, Helguera, Pavón, Roberto Carlos, Figo, Flávio Conceição, Makelele, Zidane (Solari 81), Ronaldo (Guti 74), Raúl.
Dortmund: Lehmann, Wörns, Metzelder, Dedê, Reuter (Kehl 76), Evanilson (Ricken 83), Frings, Rosický, Ewerthon, Amoroso (Reina 67), Koller.
Sebastian Kehl and then reserve keeper Roman Weidenfeller are still at Dortmund and Iker Casillas at Madrid.
In this season's group stage, Lewandowski and Marcel Schmelzer scored either side of Ronaldo's strike to give Dortmund a 2-1 home victory over Madrid on 24 October. In Spain 13 days later, Dortmund led twice through Marco Reus and Álvaro Arbeloa's own goal, with Madrid replying through Pepe and Özil. Those four points against the Merengues ensured that Dortmund finished as Group D winners.
Match background
Dortmund are unbeaten on their travels in this season's competition, with one victory and four draws, but Madrid have won three and drawn two at the Santiago Bernabéu this term. They have won 14 – nine by a margin that would keep them in the competition this time round – and lost just one of 17 European home outings during José Mourinho's three campaigns in charge.Madrid's record against German visitors is W18 D4 L2. Last season they beat Bayern München 2-1 in the home second leg of their Champions League semifinal but lost the penalty shoot-out that followed. Bayern, with victories in 2000 and 2001, are the only Bundesliga team to have won at the Bernabéu.
Dortmund drew 0-0 at Málaga in the quarter-final first leg. Their overall record in Spain is W1 D4 L5. That sole success was a 1-0 triumph at Club Atlético Madrid in the Champions League group stage in 1996/97 – the campaign they won the trophy.
Madrid's record in two-legged ties with German clubs in Uefa competition is W11 L7; Dortmund's record against Spanish sides reads W4 L2.
This is the third Champions League semifinal appearance for Dortmund, who have reached one final. For Madrid, this is a record-extending 24th European Cup semifinal appearance. Their record is W12 L11.
While this is Klopp's first Champions League semifinal, for Mourinho it is the seventh: his record is W2 L4.
His Inter outfit won the 2010 final against Bayern, though Madrid did lose to the same opponents in last season's last four. On the two occasions Mourinho's sides did make the final, they claimed the trophy.
Dortmund have surrendered a three-goal first-leg lead before – the only time in 14 Uefa ties they lost the tie after winning the first game at home. Club Brugge KV turned round a 3-0 reverse in Germany with a 5-0 home success in the 1987/88 Uefa Cup third round.
Madrid have overturned a first-leg away defeat 22 times, failing on a further 14 occasions including the last three.
However, they have retrieved large first-leg away deficits: against Derby County (1975/76 European Champion Clubs' Cup second round: 1-4 away, 5-1 home); RSC Anderlecht (1984/85 Uefa Cup third round: 0-3 away, 6-1 home); and VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach (1985/86 Uefa Cup third round: 1-5 away, 4-0 home).
Madrid's shoot-out record is:
- 1-3 v Bayern München, 2011/12 Champions League semifinals
- 3-1 v Juventus, 1986/87 European Cup second round
- 5-6 v FK Crvena zvezda, 1974/75 European Cup Winners' Cup quarterfinals
- 3-1 v Rangers FC, 1999/00 Uefa Cup third round
- 6-5 v AJ Auxerre, 1992/93 Uefa Cup semifinals
Team ties
Nuri Sahin made ten appearances for Madrid in 2011/12 after signing from Dortmund. He returned to BVB on a season-and-a-half loan in January, having spent the first half of this campaign farmed out to Liverpool.Germany's Schmelzer, Mats Hummels, Mario Götze, Ilkay Gündogan, Sven Bender, Kevin Grosskreutz and Reus are international colleagues of Madrid duo Sami Khedira and Özil. All bar Bender and Grosskreutz figured in Germany's 3-1 friendly loss to Argentina in August. Khedira (own goal) and Ángel Di María were on the scoresheet and Gonzalo Higuaín also played. Higuaín also got the only goal in Argentina's 1-0 March 2010 win against Germany in Munich.
Hummels played in Germany's 1-0 Euro 2012 group stage victory over a Portugal team featuring Pepe, Fábio Coentrão and Ronaldo.
Neven Subotic was in the Serbia team beaten 2-0 by Luka Modric's Croatia in March. He and Serbia also lost 2-0 to a Spain side including Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Xabi Alonso and Raúl Albiol last May.
Özil played for Dortmund's local rivals FC Schalke 04 between 2006 and January 2008 before joining SV Werder Bremen. His only goal against Dortmund in seven games came for Bremen in a 1-1 home draw in November 2009.
Real Madrid
Champions League statistics
Madrid have conceded 399 goals in the European Cup.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer in this season's competition after 11 games with 12 goals. He has found the net 21 times in his last 18 Champions League appearances.
Ronaldo's strike in Dortmund brought up his half-century in the competition. Only four players have previously reached 50 Champions League goals: Raúl González, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Lionel Messi and Thierry Henry.
Despite taking 27 games to get off the mark, he reached the milestone on his 91st appearance, the third fastest to get to 50 behind Van Nistelrooy (62) and Messi (66).
Ronaldo, who has played every minute of Madrid's campaign, has had 52 attempts on target and 20 wide, both more than any other player – the next highest shots on target is Messi's 28.
Pepe has also featured in all 11 Madrid matches this season.
Madrid have managed just one clean sheet in the competition this season and their tally of 18 goals conceded is more than any other team still involved.
At 17 years and 353 days, José Rodríguez surpassed Raúl as Madrid's youngest ever European Cup player on matchday six.
Álvaro Arbeloa, the only player to have been sent off twice in this season's competition, is available after serving a one-match ban. Sergio Ramos and Michael Essien are within a booking of suspension.
Miscellaneous
José Mourinho made eight changes to the side that started in Dortmund – with only Diego López, Sami Khedira and Pepe retaining their places – as Madrid won 2-1 at Club Atlético de Madrid on Saturday. It was the Merengues' record-extending sixth successive Liga win at the Vicente Calderón.Ronaldo has scored 51 goals in 50 games for Madrid this season and has 31 Liga goals to his name this term. He is the first Madrid player to score 30 in a season on three occasions.
Ronaldo has scored 107 goals in 96 appearances for Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Madrid are 40 games unbeaten at the Bernabéu, since a 2-1 cup defeat by Barcelona on 18 January 2012.
The Merengues have scored 78 goals in 26 outings at the Bernabéu this season, an average of three per game.
They have struck three goals or more in each of their last four home matches.
Marcelo has missed Madrid's last two games with a thigh injury sustained against Real Betis Balompié on 20 April.
Iker Casillas has not featured since breaking his left thumb on 23 January but is available.
Before the first leg, Madrid had not lost by more than a one-goal margin this season. They had not conceded four in a game since a 5-0 loss at Barcelona on 29 November 2010.
Madrid will meet Atlético in the Copa del Rey final at the Santiago Bernabéu on 17 May. It will be the fifth Madrid derby final and first since Atlético prevailed 2-0 in 1992.
Dortmund
Champions League statistics
Robert Lewandowski became the first player to score four goals in a European Cup semi-final in the first leg. He is the ninth man to score four times in a Champions League match; Lionel Messi is the only player to score five.
Lewandowski has scored ten times in this season's competition, fewer only than Cristiano Ronaldo (12). Dortmund have scored 296 goals in Uefa competition.
Dortmund are the only unbeaten team left in the competition. They have had 52 shots wide, won 53 corners, been caught offside 20 times and collected ten yellow cards – all fewer than any other team in the last four.
Roman Weidenfeller and Marcel Schmelzer have played every minute of Jürgen Klopp's team's campaign. Marco Reus and Lewandowski have also featured in all 11 games.
Kevin Grosskreutz's next yellow card will incur a ban.
Dortmund won 2-1 at Fortuna Düsseldorf on Saturday, their sixth successive victory in all competitions – a season high.
Klopp made ten changes to the side that started at home to Madrid, with only Mats Hummels retaining his place.
Lukasz Piszczek (adductor strain), Ilkay Gündogan (neck) and Mario Götze (muscular problems) were all ruled out.
Lewandowski had scored in each of his last 12 Bundesliga games, a club record, before failing to find the net in Dusseldorf after being brought on 21 minutes from time. He has scored 21 goals in his past 20 outings for Dortmund, also registering two in three international appearances during that time.
Dortmund have won their last eight home games, scoring 27 goals in the process; they have won just three of their last eight on their travels, though those three wins all came in their last four away games.
On the eve of the first leg, Dortmund announced that Götze will join Bayern München in July after the Bundesliga champions triggered the €37m release clause in the 20-year-old's contract.
Götze has scored 19 goals for club and country this season, two more than he managed in the two previous campaigns combined.
Sebastian Kehl (until summer 2014), Neven Subotic (2016), Grosskreutz (2016), Sven Bender (2017) and Schmelzer (2017) have all agreed contract extension this year.
Dortmund won 6-1 at SpVgg Greuther Fürth on 13 April, equalling their biggest ever away win in the Bundesliga set against 1. FC Köln in 1994 and repeated against the same side in 2012. They were 5-0 up at the interval, their biggest half-time lead home or away in the league since 1964.
Dortmund's 4-1 home defeat by Hamburger SV on 9 February was their heaviest loss since going down 5-1 at home to Bayern on 12 September 2009.
Reus scored every goal in a 3-0 win against Eintracht Frankfurt on 16 February, becoming the first German player to record a hat-trick at home for Dortmund since Günter Breitzke in 1986.
Reus (2), Götze and Gündogan all scored in Germany's 4-1 Fifa World Cup qualifying victory at home to Kazakhstan on 26 March. Gündogan also hit the woodwork twice, Götze once.
Jonas Hofmann and Leonardo Bittencourt made their full Bundesliga debuts in the 4-2 victory over FC Augsburg on 6 April.
Competition facts
Champions League knockout stage: Did you know?Teams have recovered from a first-leg deficit to go through on 30 occasions, including Barcelona and Málaga in this season's round of 16. Only twice – AFC Ajax's defeat of Panathinaikos in the 1995/96 semi-finals and Inter Milan's win against Bayern München in the 2010/11 round of 16 – has a side progressed after a home first-leg loss.
The biggest losing margin a side has overturned was achieved by Deportivo La Coruña in the 2003/04 quarterfinals when they lost 4-1 at AC Milan but won 4-0 at home.
Twenty-three ties have been decided on away goals, including six where the triumphant team lost the first leg.
In all, 21 ties have required extra time. Eight have been decided by extra time alone: four quarterfinals, three round of 16 encounters and the 2007/08 semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool.
Thirteen ties have gone to penalties, including six finals – 1996, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2012. The first two-legged tie decided on spot kicks was PSV Eindhoven's 4-2 win against Lyon on 13 April 2005 after a 2-2 aggregate draw.
There has never been a knockout tie ending goalless after two legs. Ten have finished 1-0 on aggregate, most recently Tottenham Hotspur’s narrow victory against AC Milan in the 2010/11 round of 16.
Bayern Munich hold the record for the biggest first-leg lead with a 5-0 success at Sporting Clube de Portugal in the 2008/09 round of 16, eventually going through 12-1 after a 7-1 home victory in the second leg. Those two games also featured more goals (13) over its two legs than any Champions League knockout tie.
Bayern's 7-0 second-leg defeat of FC Basel 1893 in the 2011/12 round of 16 is the largest margin of victory in a Champions League knockout match.
The biggest winning margin in a semi-final game is Bayern's 4-0 defeat of Barcelona in this season's first leg.
AFC Ajax beat Bayern 5-2 in 1994/95, while there were 4-1 wins for Juventus (1996/97 and 1997/98) and Valencia (1999/2000). Six teams have won 3-0, most recently Bayern's defeat of Olympique Lyonnais in 2009/10.
That 4-1 win for Juventus against AS Monaco in 1997/98 was part of the biggest aggregate semifinal score.
The principality club won 3-2 in their home return to make it ten goals in the tie.
Bayern's 4-0 defeat of Lyon in 2009/10 is the joint biggest aggregate win in a Champions League semifinal, equalling Juventus' 6-2 victory against Ajax in 1996/97.
Madrid's 6-0 second-leg win against FC Zürich in 1963/64 is the biggest European Cup semifinal victory. Eintracht Frankfurt's 12-4 success against Rangers FC in 1959/60 is the biggest aggregate total.
Clarence Seedorf is the only player to win the European Cup with three clubs (AFC Ajax 1995, Real Madrid 1998, AC Milan 2003, 2007). Liverpool's Bob Paisley (1977, 1978, 1981) is the only coach to win three times.
Ottmar Hitzfeld (Borussia Dortmund 1997, Bayern 2001), Ernst Happel (Feyenoord 1970, Hamburger SV 1983) and José Mourinho (FC Porto 2004, Inter Milan 2010) are the only coaches to win the trophy with two clubs.
This season Chelsea became the first defending champions to fail to get through a group stage since the Champions League began. In 1992/93, Barcelona were the reigning European Champion Clubs' Cup holders and lost 4-3 on aggregate in the second round by PFC CSKA Moskva.
No team has successfully defended the Champions League trophy with AC Milan (1989, 1990) the last club to win consecutive European Champion Clubs' Cups. Milan (1994, 1995), AFC Ajax (1995, 1996), Juventus (1996, 1997) and Manchester United (2008, 2009) have all returned to the final as holders only to lose.
Only two teams have ever won the Champions League on home soil: Borussia Dortmund (1997, final in Munich) and Juventus (1996, final in Rome), while Manchester United lost the 2011 final in London and 12 months later Bayern were beaten in the showpiece in their own stadium, the Fußball Arena München.
Lionel Messi became the first player to score five goals in a match in Barcelona's 7-1 win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on 7 March 2012. Robert Lewandowski's haul in this season's semifinal first leg made him the ninth player, including Messi, to score four times in a game.
