Dortmund, Menangi Pertama Menuju 8 Besar Liga Champions
Dortmund Won, Germans Put One Foot in Last Eight
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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St Petersburg (B2B) - Robert Lewandowski dan Marco Reus mengantar Borussia Dortmund menundukkan Zenit 4-2 pada pertandingan leg pertama Liga Champions yang digelar di Petrovsky Stadium, Rusia, Selasa waktu setempat.
Lewandowski mencetak dua gol sementara Marco reus tampil gemilang dengan menyumbang satu gol dan dua assist.
Dortmund membuka keunggulan ketika pertandingan baru berjalan empat menit melalui kaki Henrik Mkhitaryan memanfaatkan umpan matang Marco Reus, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sport.
Satu menit kemudian Marco Reus menggandakan skor untuk Dortmund memaksimalkan umpan pemain asal Turki, Nuri Sahin. Skor 2-0 bertahan hingga jeda babak pertama.
Babak kedua Zenit Petersburg bermain lebih menyerang dan di menit ke-58 Oleg Shatov menciptakan gol bagi Zenit.
Namun hanya berselang tiga menit dari gol Shatov, Robert Lewandowski ciptakan gol ketiga Dortmund memanfaatkan umpan Lukasz Piszczek.
Gol Lewandowski tidak membuat tim tuan rumah menyerah. Pada menit ke-69 pemain bertahan Dortmund melakukan pelanggaran yang berbuah penalti untuk Zenit. Hulk yang menjadi algojo tidak membuang peluang, skor 2-3.
Lewandowski dan Marco Reus lagi-lagi menjadi momok bagi lini pertahanan Zenit. Hanya berselang dua menit dari gol Hulk, Lewandowski mencetak gol keempat Dortmund memanfaatkan umpan Reus. Skor 4-2 untuk kemenangan Dortmund bertahan hingga akhir laga.
Meskipun kalah namun Zenit Petersburg lebih menguasai jalannya pertandingan dengan 55 persen penguasaan bola.
Kemenangan 4-2 di kandang Zenit membuat anak asuh Jurgen Klopp menjalani leg kedua lebih mudah karena akan digelar di Signal Iduna Park, kandang Dortmund, tiga pekan mendatang.
St Petersburg - Robert Lewandowski scored twice as Borussia Dortmund took a big step toward the Champions League quarterfinals with a 4-2 victory at Zenit St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
Losing finalists last year, Dortmund made a blistering start with Henrikh Mkhitaryan scoring in the fourth minute and Marco Reus doubling the visitors´ lead a minute later.
Zenit, which hadn´t played a competitive game since Dec. 11 due to the Russian winter break, looked rusty, but pulled one back through Oleg Shatov in the 57th.
Lewandowski replied four minutes later, after playing a one-two with Poland teammate Lukasz Piszczek.
Then Piszczek conceded a penalty and Hulk scored emphatically from the spot in the 69th.
Lewandowski responded by scoring his side´s fourth away goal two minutes later to leave Dortmund firmly in control before the second-leg of the round-of-16 tie on March 19.
After more than two months without competitive football, the home side buckled early on under the visitors´ pressure and struggled to keep up with their quick passing game.
The tactics quickly paid off for Dortmund when Reus ran at the Zenit defense, staying on his feet when he might have been awarded a penalty, before Mkhitaryan swept the loose ball past Yuri Lodygin.
The visiting fans were still celebrating when Kevin Grosskreutz knocked Mkhitaryan´s cross back for Reus to volley inside the right post.
Zenit´s attacking midfielder Andrey Arshavin went off with what looked a hamstring injury in the 15th minute, and last-gasp defending from its captain Nicolas Lombaerts prevented Lewandowski from getting Dortmund´s third shortly afterward.
