Ajax go to the second round after beating Dortmund with ten

The Ajax was classified this Wednesday mathematically for the round of 16 of the Champions thanks to their full of victories in Group C (12 points out of 12). The Dutch traced him back to a Borussia Dortmund who suffered the early and undeserved expulsion from the central Hummels and that he also accused the absence due to injury of his scorer Haaland. The Germans went ahead in the first half with a VAR penalty of Reus, but the team of Ten Hag, who had already beaten (4-0) to those of Rose on Amsterdam, turned the score around in a great second half with so many Tadic, Haller y Klaassen, all of them assisted by a stellar Antony.

The Dortmund He started very strong by encircling the frame defended by Pasveer. The first German warning came as soon as it started with a high head of Hummels. Shortly after, Thorn Hazard took advantage of an inopportune slip of Lisandro Martinez to steal the ball and assist Bellingham, whose header did not find the precision necessary to enter the Dutch goal. The roles were not long in being reversed, when a play by the young English footballer ended with a shot from the Belgian’s heel that ended in a corner.

The German team, with an electric and vertical 4-3-3, insisted on its offensive and the central Hummels He appeared again in attack with a dangerous shoe from outside the area that did not find the goal either. The Ajax could hardly shake the overwhelming dominance of the men of Marco Rose, who returned to touch the 1-0 with a shot from Reus what saved feather providentially with a miraculous hand.

Arbitration controversy

In the 29th minute there was a very controversial play. Hummels was sent off with a direct red for an impetuous tackle on Antony, that he jumped over the German defender and that he threw too much ‘theater’ to his fall. The action was reviewed by the WHERE, but the English collegiate Michael Oliver stayed in his thirteen and threw out Hummels, devastated by his unjust expulsion.

Marco Rose had to rebuild his defense with the immediate entry of Pongracic by Thorn Hazard. A change that coincided with the request for a penalty by Bellingham. The referee did not indicate anything in the first instance but, after being warned by the WHERE, watched the action on the field monitor and retracted his first decision by whistling the maximum penalty, after the full-back Mazraoui with his knee he touched the leg with which the Englishman was about to coax.

Reus took responsibility from 11 meters and opened the scoring in the 37th minute with a shot that feather was about to stop. The Ajax had no choice but to go up in search of the equalizer, something that almost achieved Lisandro Martinez with a left foot from the edge that licked off the post. The first half ended with another clear opportunity ‘ajacied’ than the goal Kobel took out after a good hit of mountain house.

The second part started like the first, with harassment from Dortmund and Bellingham He was very close to signing 2-0, but his spectacular shot did not find the squad by a few centimeters. But Ajax He did not lose face to the match and decidedly went for the equalizer with a combinatorial football.

Total dominance of the ‘ajacied’ after the break

When the game time was about to be reached, the German team once again lost a defender, in this case the left-back Wolf, which was replaced by physical problems after a very complete performance. Those of Marco Rose they gritted their teeth in defense against a Ajax that was growing with the passing of the minutes and that it happened to dominate the encounter with a possession that reached 70%.

Fear began to seize Dortmund, who tried to slow down the game as much as he could to cut the rhythm of the box Erik ten Hag, which doubled in passes to the locals. The Germans limited themselves to unceremoniously clearing all the balls that reached their area, which was increasingly threatened. Finally, the Ajax found his prize in the 71st minute. Antony put a cross to the far post and Tadic, the best of his team, beat Kobel after hitting the post and suffering a painful blow to the crotch.

The Dutch team, owner and lord of the second half, did not settle for the draw and Holy, who had entered by mountain house, attempted an acrobatic shot that was ineffective against a frightened Dortmund that had to multiply after staying with ten from 29 ‘and that he sought to surprise the visitors on the counter.

The comeback of Ajax it was consumed with seven minutes to go. Antony gave a phenomenal assist to Haller, author of a great goal that the central defender could not avoid Akanji nor desperately grabbing him so that he did not finish in conditions. The Dutch players melted into a pineapple of joy to celebrate a 1-2 they deserved for their faith and drive in the second half.

Klaassen, again after an assist from the unstoppable Antony, finished off the victory of Ajax in the discount (93 ‘). A defeat that ‘condemns’ the Dortmund to play second place with him Sporting, although the Portuguese still have mathematical options, albeit remote, of finishing first.