Big Match Feature: Dortmund v PSV

Borussia Dortmund will once again draw on their impressive home form in the Uefa Champions League as they look to overcome PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday and reach the quarterfinals for the first time in three seasons. Catch the action live on SuperSport.

The first leg in the Netherlands – the home side's first in the Champions League knockout rounds in eight seasons – ended 1-1, former PSV forward Donyell Malen's deflected shot giving the visitors a 24th-minute lead. That was cancelled out by a Luuk de Jong penalty 11 minutes into the second period after Malik Tillman had been felled by Mats Hummels.

While Dortmund are in the round of 16 for the ninth time overall and the fifth in six seasons, three of their most recent four last-16 ties ended in elimination and they have not reached the last eight since 2020/21. PSV are making their fifth appearance at this stage – and only their second in 17 seasons – and are bidding to reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 2006/07.

This season, Dortmund came top of a competitive Group F ahead of Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Newcastle United with PSV finishing second behind Arsenal in Group B.

MATCH FACTS

Borussia Dortmund are unbeaten in all three of their European meetings with PSV (W1 D2), with their only previous home game finishing 1-1 in October 2002.

PSV are winless in their last 16 away games against German sides (including GDR) in all competitions (D3 L13) since beating Eintracht Braunschweig in December 1977. They’ve lost five of their six such games in the Uefa Champions League, with the exception being a 1-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund in October 2002.

When avoiding defeat away from home in the first leg of a Uefa Champions League knockout stage tie, Borussia Dortmund have always progressed to the next round. Their 1-1 draw in Eindhoven in the first leg was the sixth such instance of this happening.

Since beating Monaco 2-0 in the 2004-05 round of 16, PSV are winless in their last six away games in the Uefa Champions League knockout rounds (D3 L3). They’ve been eliminated on each of the previous three occasions they’ve failed to win the first leg of such a tie at home.

Borussia Dortmund are unbeaten in their last eight Uefa Champions League home games (W4 D4), though their last such defeat was in their last match against Dutch opponents (1-3 v Ajax). They last had a longer run without defeat at home in the competition between December 1996 and September 1999 (9).

PSV are looking to reach the Uefa Champions League quarterfinal for just the third time, previously doing so in 2004-05 and 2006-07.

Jadon Sancho has been directly involved in eight goals in 11 home games for Borussia Dortmund in the Uefa Champions League (four goals, four assists). This will be his first game for Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park in the competition since December 2020 (v Lazio).

With his penalty goal in the first leg, Luuk de Jong became PSV’s highest ever goalscorer in the Uefa Champions League with nine goals. Including the old European Cup, only Romário (11) and Willy van der Kuijlen (10) scored more for the Dutch side.

Borussia Dortmund’s Gregor Kobel has made 19 line-breaking passes to Niclas Füllkrug in the Uefa Champions League this season – the most between a goalkeeper and a forward teammate in the competition in 2023-24.

PSV’s Olivier Boscagli won possession 14 times in the first leg against Borussia Dortmund; the most by a defender in a Uefa Champions League game this season. Indeed, it was the joint-most by a PSV defender in a single game in the competition on record (since 2003-04) – also 14 by Héctor Moreno in December 2016 (v Rostov).

SHOOTOUT RECORDS

Dortmund's record in UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 L2: