In the third season of Project Paris, it was finally set up for Neymar to be the belle of the Champions League ball. It was supposed to be his night. Yet few can hold back the tide that is Erling Braut Haaland these days. Without transforming the team the Norwegian significantly adjusted Borussia Dortmund’s fortunes and swept them to a heady victory over the returning Thomas Tuchel’s Paris Saint-Germain – in classic teenage style, late to rise before injecting the night with drama.
“It’s hard to pick out an individual,” Dortmund’s head coach, Lucien Favre, said, but few would buy his line, even if his team were organised and smart throughout. With the anticipation that an evening of beautiful chaos awaited, the opening exchanges had been more a series of precise, considered jabs between the only Bundesliga side yet to lose at home this season and visitors who arrived unbeaten in 23 matches.
Written by Andy Brassell at Signal Iduna Park
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