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Dortmund's injury concerns ease before facing PSG in Champions League semifinal

Edin Terzic of Borussia Dortmund celebrates during the Bundesliga match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayer 04 Leverkusen at Signal Iduna Park on April 21, 2024 in Dortmund, Germany. 


Borussia Dortmund´s injury worries have eased and coach Edin Terzi´c is hopeful all but two players will be fit for the Champions League Semifinal first leg against Paris Saint-Germain.


Terzi´c said on Tuesday that left back Ramy Bensebaini and young forward Julien Duranville are definitely out of Wednesday´s match, but that others can return after missing the team´s 4-1 loss at Leipzig in the Bundesliga on Saturday.


Emre Can and Ian Maatsen are back and well-rested after serving suspensions at the weekend.


"Marcel Sabitzer and Donyell Malen took part in training again yesterday," Terzi´c said. "Donny couldn´t take part in everything. Marcel felt much better and was very happy. Sébastien Haller could take part in some of the training and we´ll see today how the final training session develops. For now, we´re assuming that the guys will be available tomorrow."

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Ivory Coast forward Haller has been laboring with a persistent left ankle injury.


Dortmund, which knocked out Atlético Madrid to reach the final four, already faced PSG in the group stage, losing 2-0 in Paris before drawing 1-1 at home and topping the group.

The German team is unbeaten in its last 10 games at home in the competition and will again look to the support from its "yellow wall."


But Terzi´c is aware that PSG, which already has the French League title wrapped up, needs to finally win Europe´s premier competition to justify more than a decade of huge investment from its Qatari owners.


"They have added a very, very high level of quality to this team, a team that has been built up in recent years to win the Champions League," Terzi´c said. "At the start of the season they may not have performed so well, but they always got their results, perhaps not yet with the performances they had imagined. But they improved a lot during the first half of the season."


Terzi´c suggested Luis Enrique´s team was peaking at the right time.


"It´s not easy to stop them, though every team tries," Terzi´c said. "If you take Kylian Mbappé, for example, with his exceptional individual quality, he has now scored 43 goals in 44 games. Opponents set themselves the goal of not letting him score in 44 games. It doesn´t always work."



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