LISBON (Reuters) -Sporting Lisbon beat 10-man Borussia Dortmund 3-1 on Wednesday with two targets from Pedro Goncalves to clinch their spot within the Champions League knockout levels for the primary time in 13 years and eradicate the Germans from the competitors.
Goncalves struck twice within the first half to guide his crew to their tenth straight victory in all competitions and 9 factors in Group C, three forward of the Germans with a recreation left and a greater head-to-head, after shedding 1-0 in Dortmund in September.
Sporting, within the spherical of 16 for the primary time since 2008-09, made probably the most of a disastrous Nico Schulz clearance that despatched the ball straight to Goncalves who flicked it previous keeper Gregor Kobel after half an hour.
The midfielder, who additionally scored twice final week of their Portuguese Cup fourth-round win, rifled in from 20 metres 9 minutes later to place Sporting firmly within the driving seat.
“We’re within the spherical of 16 and it is nice, it is good for the challenge, however we nonetheless have so much to do,” stated Sporting coach Ruben Amorim.
“It was an unimaginable ambiance, in a recreation the place we knew find out how to take our moments. Pedro scored the targets however the others performed an awesome recreation, gave all the things.
“The crew has grown and tailored. As we speak they performed in opposition to an awesome crew, which pushed us again. They performed higher than they did in Germany however we had been additionally higher.”
Dortmund, nonetheless with out injured striker Erling Haaland, got here out preventing after the break, on the lookout for a objective that will hold their qualifying hopes alive, and had an effort dominated offside however lacked precision of their last move.
Their hopes of a comeback, nonetheless, had been dashed when Emre Can was despatched off within the seventy fifth for a foul on Pedro Porro.
Sporting earned a penalty 4 minutes later and Porro headed within the rebound after Kobel had saved Goncalves’ spot-kick to disclaim him a hat-trick.
Dortmund, who scored in stoppage-time via Donyell Malen, had been left questioning how a marketing campaign that began with two wins might have introduced no factors from the following three matches.
“We’re discussing in the long run about the identical errors we hold making,” Dortmund captain Marco Reus stated. “Even with 10 we had been higher than Sporting had been with 11 gamers. They did little however nonetheless gained 3-1.
“We had the sport below management till the 1-0. Then we allowed them to make it 2-0. It was a horrible night. We’re eradicated and that’s the reality.”
The Germans will go into the Europa League because the third-placed crew within the group.
Ajax Amsterdam clinched prime spot with a 2-1 win over backside aspect Besiktas, their fifth victory in 5 matches.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, modifying by Ed Osmond)
