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Borussia Dortmund come away from the first leg of the Champions League Round of 16 with a draw away from home. The Champions League has, somewhat unexpectedly, been Borussia Dortmund?s safe haven throughout this season, so after a pretty lifeless 1-1 draw with Wolfsburg at the weekend, BVB?s Round of 16 Champions League tie against PSV Eindhoven was much needed. Unfortunately, Dortmund?s performance wasn?t significantly better than their efforts on Saturday, and the result was exactly the same.
BVB started pretty brightly and had a slight edge over PSV in the first half-hour. Donyell Malen gave BVB the lead 25 minutes into the game, scoring from a pretty difficult angle (though he was helped by a deflection), but for the remainder of the first half, Dortmund were kept busy defending the lead. PSV continued to be the team pushing the pace of the game in the second half, and just ten minutes after the break they were awarded a soft penalty after Hummels went to ground to make a tackle on Malik Tillman and made minimal contact with the ball. I thought it was probably the wrong call by the referee, but it was one of those decisions that could go either way, so I?m not particularly mad about it. Unfortunately, it was the chance PSV needed to get back in the game, and Luuk de Jong leveled things up. PSV were the better side after their equalizer, but neither team really shone.
It was a relatively close g...