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PARIS (AP) โ Londonโs calling, but not for Kylian Mbappรฉ.
When Borussia Dortmundโs players rushed over to their fans wearing yellow โLondon 24โ T-shirts and joined in the celebrations after knocking out Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League final on Tuesday, Mbappรฉ had long left the field.
Wembley Stadium on June 1 is the final stop on Dortmundโs quest for the Champions League trophy, by which time Mbappรฉ will have played his last game for PSG having failed to win the trophy the clubโs cash-rich Qatari owners so crave.
Central defender Mats Hummels headed Dortmund into the final as the German team won 1-0 at PSG.
Moments after Warren Zaรฏre-Emery missed an open goal for PSG, Hummels rose unchallenged to head in Julian Brandt's corner from the left in the 50th minute.
Dortmund advanced 2-0 on aggregate and largely contained Mbappรฉ, who is leaving at the end of the season.
PSG exerted late pressure.
Goalkeeper Gregor Kobel palmed away Mbappรฉ's low shot, then pushed Mbappรฉโs deflected close-range effort onto the crossbar with a superb one-handed save. The Parc des Princes crowd groaned when midfielder Vitinhaโs thumping 25-meter strike rattled the woodwork.
Coach Edin Terziฤ's team will play either record 14-time champion Real Madrid or six-time winner Bayern Munich on June 1 at Wembley Stadium. Madrid and Bayern drew 2-2 in the first leg and play on Wednesday.
โExtremely proud. Iโm very happy,โ Terziฤ said. โWe beat a team like PSG two times and we again kept a clean sheet. We started really well and kept them away from the goal.โ
Dortmund is on course for its second Champions League trophy after winning in 1997 and a third European trophy, having won the now defunct UEFA Cup Winnersโ Cup in 1966. Dortmund also reached the Champions League final in 2013, losing to Bayern.
โIndescribable. After more than 10 years, I am in the final with Borussia again,โ said Marco Reus, Dortmund's veteran midfielder who is leaving the team after this season. โHow we won the game, no one will ask tomorrow. Shots against the post wonโt matter tomorrow.โ
For PSG, it's another season ending without raising the trophy its cash-rich Qatari owners have chased after by spending huge amounts on star players like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Neymar, Lionel Messi and Mbappรฉ. PSG lost its only Champions League final in 2020 to Bayern.
โEfficiency, thatโs what we were missing,โ PSG captain Marquinhos said. โWe should have defended better. They scored from a corner and a counter-attack (in the first leg). We created more chances but they won both games.โ
As Dortmund's players celebrated, Mbappรฉ looked dejected as he trudged for the last time in a Champions League game wearing a PSG jersey. He is widely expected to join Madrid.
Moments before Dortmundโs goal, Zaรฏre-Emery somehow hit the post from two meters out after Gonรงalo Ramos flicked on Mbappรฉโs cross from the left.
On Hummels' goal, PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma again did not move off his line to claim the ball, having not done so when Barcelona scored on a corner from the left in the first leg of the quarterfinals.
Coach Luis Enriqueโs players seemed nervous, playing cautiously and defending too deeply in the first half, allowing Dortmund to settle into a comfortable rhythm.
Mbappรฉ was ineffective in attack when PSG lost the first leg and, despite their speed, Mbappรฉ and Ousmane Dembรฉlรฉ struggled to find space behind a well-organized Dortmund defense with midfielder Emre Can offering good protection.
It took 30 minutes before Mbappรฉ and Zaรฏre-Emery freed Dembรฉlรฉ on the right of the penalty area, but he failed to hit the target.
Speedy left winger Karim Adeyemi did so for Dortmund five minutes later when a rapid counter-attack exposed PSGโs defense, but Donnarumma rescued PSG with a fine low save.
Hummelโs goal at least woke up PSGโs attack, but Ramos missed the target when well-placed either side of a stinging shot from left back Nuno Mendes hitting the left post.
Dembรฉlรฉ then cut inside Hummels, who was perhaps unfortunate not to concede a penalty midway through the second half. Referee Daniele Orsato awarded a free kick.
PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi pointed to the amount of times PSG hit the post or crossbar over both legs.
But in reality PSG again fell short, despite boasting one of the worldโs best players in Mbappรฉ.
PSG only qualified for the knockout stage in the last round of group games, losing at Newcastle and AC Milan and finishing second behind Dortmund. Overall, PSG lost five games in the competition.
Mbappรฉ's last home game for PSG โ which has already clinched the French league title โ will be Sunday against Toulouse, and his last game for the club May 25 in the French Cup final against Lyon.
In Lille and not London.
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