Borussia Dortmund are back in the UEFA Champions League final after defeating Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 on Tuesday, advancing on 2-0 aggregate across two legs.
Mats Hummels’ header in the 50th minute propelled Dortmund to their third appearance in the UCL final and first since 2012-13.
The German club will play the winner of Real Madrid and Bayern Munich on June 1. Bayern Munich defeated Dortmund 2-1 in the 2013 UCL final at Wembley Stadium in London, the same location of this year’s final.
Dortmund and PSG faced off in the tournament’s round of 16 during the 2019-20 campaign.
PSG came out on top after winning 3-2 on aggregate, promptly trolling then-Dortmund star Erling Haaland’s signature celebration after advancing. Dortmund kept the receipts, responding with their own version Tuesday after knocking out the Parisian side.
PSG players did Haaland’s meditation celebration after eliminating Dortmund from the UCL in 2020. Dortmund kept the receipts and just clapped back đ pic.twitter.com/1uHEK3ezcJ
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Haaland, who now plays for Manchester City in England, started the bad blood after he scored twice against PSG. In the days after the game, an unconfirmed photo surfaced on his social media where Haaland called Paris “my city, not yours.”
It got around to PSG players, who mocked Haaland’s celebration with that team photo posted in March 2020. Neymar, then playing at PSG, also posted a separate troll on his Instagram.
But Dortmund got the last laugh. They knocked out PSG, who hit the post six times Tuesday — the most times hitting the post by any team in a UCL knockout tie since 2003-04, according to Stats-Perform.
