Key events
PSG, a goal behind after the first leg, get the second underway! Blistering noise rings around the Parc des Princes. Here we go, then!
The teams are out! PSG in blue and red, BVB in yellow and black. Music. Ce sont les meilleures équipes! Sie sind die allerbesten Mannschaften! These are the champions! What an atmosphere, with red pyrotechnics filling the spring Parisian sky. Weâll be off once Emre Can takes receipt of that pennant. Donât look at it too closely, Emre, youâve got to run about for 90 minutes.
Pennant watch: an update. âPSG have priors,â reports Joe Pearson. âDid similar when they met Sociedad earlier in the campaign.â My goodness, their designer really is earning their corn this season. Very nice as well, though a bit too fussy to be classified as funky. Or psychedelic. Having said that, you wouldnât want to stare at it too long after a gourd of Mate and 20 B&H.
Pennant watch. This surely has to be the funkiest commemorative pennon in European Cup history. Does it count as psychedelic? Probably not, though you wouldnât want to stare at it too long after a strong cup of sugary tea and a hand-rolled cigarette.
PSG make two changes to their starting XI after last weekâs first leg. Gonçalo Ramos and Lucas Beraldo come in for Bradley Barcola, who drops to the bench, and Lucas Hernandez, who tore his ACL in Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund are in If It Ainât Broke mode. They name exactly the same XI that started their victory at the Westfalenstadion. In between times, theyâve beaten Augsburg 5-1 in the Bundesliga; PSG didnât play last weekend.
The teams
PSG: Donnarumma, Hakimi, Marquinhos, Lucas Beraldo, Nuno Mendes, Zaire Emery, Vitinha, Fabian, Dembele, Goncalo Ramos, Mbappe.
Subs: Navas, Ugarte, Asensio, Danilo Pereira, Lee, Muani, Mukiele, Carlos Soler, Barcola, Skriniar, Zague, Tenas.
Borussia Dortmund: Kobel, Ryerson, Hummels, Schlotterbeck, Maatsen, Sabitzer, Can, Sancho, Brandt, Adeyemi, Fullkrug.
Subs: Ozcan, Nmecha, Haller, Reus, Wolf, Moukoko, Malen, Sule, Meyer, Laurenz Lotka, Watjen, Bynoe-Gittens.
Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy).
Preamble
Last Wednesday this happened â¦
⦠and if tonightâs second leg at the Parc des Princes proves to be even half as entertaining, weâll be lucky people indeed. Will Niclas Füllkrug score another peach? Can Kylian Mbappé and Achraf Hakimi hit the inside of both posts in the space of ten seconds again? Will referee Daniele Orsato (Italy) prove a more competent official than Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)? The answers are maybe, probably not, and yes of course. Kick off in Paris is at 8pm BST, 9pm local. Itâs on!
