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DREADFUL GAME SEES SPORTING PROGRESS TO LAST 16

A terrible game at Westfalenstadion saw Dortmund move into the last 16, a goalless draw on the night giving them a 3-0 aggregate victory. Leaving top-socrer Victor Gyokeres at home for reasons of "squad management", Sporting manager Rui Borges made clear he felt the tie was over and the way his team approached the game echoed that: at no point did they commit men forward or deploy the intensity of a side on the cusp of elimination. At no point during the 90 minutes did they test Gregor Kobel in the Dortmund goal, with Rui Silva, their own keeper the busier of the two – most notably when he saved Serhou Guirassy's second-half penalty, awarded after Karim Adeyemi made sure to run into his dive, the ball long gone. So Dortmund move on to meet either Lille or Villa, and on the evidence of both tonight and the season as a whole, neither should approach the tie with any trepidation whatsoever.