Borussia Dortmund will once again build on their impressive home form in the UEFA Champions League as they try to defeat PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday and reach the quarter-finals for the first time in three seasons. Watch the action live on SuperSport.
The first leg in the Netherlands, the home side’s first in the Champions League round of 16 in 8 seasons, ended 1-1, with a deflected shot from former PSV striker Donyell Malen giving the visitors the lead in the 24th minute. That was cancelled out by a Luuk de Jong penalty in the 11th minute of the match after Malik Tillman brought down Mats Hummels.
While Dortmund are in the round of 16 for the ninth time overall and fifth in six seasons, 3 of their last 4 ties ended in elimination and they have reached the round of 16 since 2020/21. PSV will be making their fifth appearance in this tournament. level (and only their moment in 17 seasons) and aim for the quarter-finals for the first time since the 2006/07 season.
This season, Dortmund crowned a competitive striker from Group F formed by Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Newcastle United, and PSV completed Arsenal’s second-place finish in Group B.
MATCH FACTS
Borussia Dortmund are unbeaten in their three European meetings against PSV (W1 D2), with their last home game ending 1-1 in October 2002.
PSV are winless in their last 16 away games against Germany (including GDR) in all competitions (D3 L13) since beating Eintracht Braunschweig in December 1977. They have lost five of their six such matches in the UEFA Champions League, with the exception of a 1-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund in October 2002.
By avoiding defeat away from home in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League round of 16, Borussia Dortmund advanced to the next round. Their 1-1 draw in Eindhoven in the first leg was the sixth such example.
Since their 2-0 win over Monaco in round of 16 of the 2004-05 season, PSV are winless in their last six away trips in the UEFA Champions League round of 16 (D3 L3). They have been eliminated in the last 3 events in which they failed to win the first leg of such a draw at home.
Borussia Dortmund are unbeaten in their last 8 home games in the UEFA Champions League (W4 D4), their last such defeat came in their last match against Dutch sides (1-3 v Ajax). Their last unbeaten run at home in the festival was between December 1996 and September 1999 (9).
PSV are hoping to reach the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League for the third time, having done so in 2004-05 and 2006-07.
Jadon Sancho has been involved in 8 goals in Borussia Dortmund’s 11 home games in the UEFA Champions League (4 goals, 4 assists). It will be Dortmund’s first match at Signal Iduna Park at the festival since December 2020 (against Lazio).
Thanks to his penalty in the first leg, Luuk de Jong is PSV’s top scorer in the UEFA Champions League with nine goals. Including the old European Cup, only Romário (11) and Willy van der Kuijlen (10) have scored more for the Dutch. team.
Borussia Dortmund’s Gregor Kobel provided 19 assists to Niclas Füllkrug in the UEFA Champions League this season – the most between a goalkeeper and a teammate at the 2023-24 festival.
PSV’s Olivier Boscagli won the first leg against Borussia Dortmund 14 times; by a defender in a UEFA Champions League match this season. This is the all-time record for a PSV defender in a single match at the festival (since 2003-04), as well as 14 for Hector Moreno in December 2016 (against Rostov).