Borussia Dortmund outplayed Real Madrid by 4-1 margin on their first leg encounter of second semifinal of UEFA Champions League.

          

 

             Same story like previous night, another Spanish giant is hammered in the hand of another German club while Borussia Dortmund outplayed Real Madrid by 4-1 margin on their first leg encounter of second semifinal of UEFA Champions League at Dortmund lastnight. The Polish goal poacher Robert Lewandowski netted all four for the homeside in the 8^th minute,

50^th minute, 55^th minute & 66^th minute of the game while Christano Ronaldo scored the solitary goal for the visitors in the 42^nd minute of the match.

               It was all about Robert Lewandowski show at Signal-Iduna-Park in Dortmund lastnight. The Polish international is the current top scorer of Beundeslig this season as well as scored 11 goals in his last 12 Champions League appearances.

               The hosts started in a very positive approach they should have taken the lead within 2^nd minute of the game while Sven Bender wins the ball with a strong challenge in midfield and plays the ball to Marco Reus, who failed to guide the ball past Real Madid custodian Diego Lopez.

               However the Polish star scored his first goal of the match in the 8^th minute of the game while Mario Goze crossed

from the left and  Lewandowski got the better of Pepe on the edge of the six-yard box and poked the ball home with a perfectly timed lunge.

                A genuine penalty appeal in fore of the homeside was rejected by the referee B. Kuipers‎ in the 41st minute while Raphael Varane was scrambling back to try to take the ball off Reus, but lost his footing and knocked over the Dortmund midfielder in the penalty area.

                    While Dortmund's players were getting all het up with the referee, Mats Hummel tried to play the ball back to his goalkeeper from a good way out with a horrendously under-hit back-pass. Gonzalo Higuain latched on to it, drew the goalkeeper and only remaining defender before rolling the ball

across the face of goal, where Ronaldo didn’t make any mess to slot the ball inside the net, leveled the game in 42nd minute.

                 The first half ended in an 1 all stalemate.

                  Robert Lewandowski restored the parity for the hosts in 50^th minute of the game, the visitors started to appeal for an offside but referee rejected their plea.

In 55^th minute of the game Lewandowski completed his hat-trick, following a centre from left side, he took the ball on his left foot, dodged the defender, took a sort turn and fired it inside the roof of the net, this is the best goal he scored lastnight.

                 In the 66^th minute of the game Xavi Alonso pulled down Reus inside the box, referee pointed towards the spot, Lewandowski found the net from the spot, scored his fourth, put hosts 4-1 ahead, sealed the game on their fore.

                 Most probably in the return leg  it’s going to be the

action replay of last year’s semifinals where these two Spanish giants were eliminated from the same stage.

                  The dominance of Spanish clubs is going to over now, in this year Champions League no Spanish club became able to defeat any German side yet. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it becomes the all German final at Wembley on 25^th May this year.

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