Jadon Sancho and Marco Reus scored as Borussia Dortmund cruised to a tough 2-0 win over PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday and a place in the Champions League quarterfinals for the first time in three years with a 3-1 win.
Sancho, on loan from Manchester United, fired between the legs of an Eindhoven player and hit the post in the 3rd minute to score his second goal in as many games.
The winger joined United from Dortmund in 2021 on a five-year contract but fell out of favour with manager Erik ten Hag and made just three appearances this season before returning to the Ruhr Valley in January.
His form has improved in recent weeks, having found the net in Saturday’s 2-1 Bundesliga win over Werder Bremen.
Another loanee, Ian Maatsen from Chelsea, tested PSV goalkeeper Walter Benitez in the second minute before Sancho scored the next with a pinpoint arrow. Donyell Malen came close to scoring for the hosts, but his low shot went wide of the far post in a tepid first half.
Eindhoven, who reached the quarter-finals in 2007, stepped up after the break and substitute Hirving Lozano hit the post with a shot from 25 yards.
Johan Bakayoko then beat Mats Hummels before forcing a clever save from Gregor Kobel as Eindhoven searched for the elusive equaliser.
Niclas Fuellkrug thought he had calmed the hosts’ nerves and put an end to the game when he fired in a Reus free-kick, but his shot was offside.
The Dutch tried harder in the game and Luuk de Jong may have sent the game into extra time when he was loose in front of goal but, on hitting home, sent the ball carelessly over the bar in stoppage time.
The Germans then attacked on the next move as Reus made a breakaway to seal the victory.
The seven teams that will sign up for Dortmund for the quarter-final draw are Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Arsenal and Barcelona.
Borussia Dortmund will host Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga on March 17 at 4:30 p. m. , while PSV will return to the respective Dutch league facing Twente on the same day at 7:00 p. m.
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