Marco Reus called his return to the Champions League final — 11 years after first playing in it with Borussia Dortmund for the first time — “indescribable” as his team beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 on aggregate to cap an improbable run.
Mats Hummels scored the game’s only goal in a 1-0 win in Paris on Tuesday and the Bundesliga rode their luck — with PSG hitting the post four times with 30 shots on the night — to set up a match against Real Madrid or Bayern Munich on June 1 in London.
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In 2013, Reus started in a 2-1 loss to Bayern in the final on a Dortmund team that featured Robert Lewandowski and Ilkay Gündogan and was managed by Jurgen Klopp. Tuesday night’s hero Hummels was also a teammate of Reus’ in 2013.
“Indescribable. After more than 10 years, I am in the final with Borussia again,” said Reus, who is leaving the team at the end of the season. “How we won the game, no one will ask tomorrow. Shots against the post won’t matter tomorrow. What counts is that Borussia Dortmund is in the final again.”
Reus came into the game shortly after Hummels had powered in his headed goal from a Florian Wirtz cross and helped Dortmund see out a second-consecutive 1-0 win against the Ligue 1 champions.
“Today it was clear that we needed to suffer and that we needed some luck, but what the lads did was crazy, crazy,” Reus added.
