Borussia Dortmund vs PSG LIVE: Champions League semi-final score and updates as Jadon Sancho starts

10 mins: Paris pus up the pitch and come from the right by feeding the ball to Ousmane Dembele. He drifts into space on the edge of the box and lets fly with a decent hit.

Gregor Kobel spies it early and watches as the ball flies wide of the far post.

7 mins: Dortmund fizz a cross in from the left but it flies through the penalty area and almost drops for Jadon Sancho by the back post but the midfielder can’t reach it.

3 mins: PSG have a few decent moments inside the Dortmund final third but nothing too threatening for the home side who go on to recover possession and look to push their opponents back.

Julian Ryerson and Jadon Sancho combine on the right side but Lucas Hernandez nicks the ball off the midfielder who attempts to weave into the box.

Paris Saint-Germain get the ball rolling in Germany. They’re up against it this evening inside the cauldron that is the Signal Iduna Park.

The first goal could be a crucial one to determine who wins this tie.

Here come the players. Kick off is up next…

“Everyone is looking forward [to the game]. It’s a great stadium with a great atmosphere. To be in the last four teams is a big achievement, we want to use these two matches to get to Wembley.

“The team is full of energy and I am pretty optimistic.”

Matchday 1 was Paris’s third successive European game against German opponents, having lost home and away against Bayern in last season’s round of 16.

A 3-2 first-leg win at Bayern in the quarter-finals three seasons ago is Paris’s only victory in their last seven games in Germany (D2 L4).

A 3-1 defeat at Bayern on Matchday 6 of the 2017/18 Champions League ended Paris’s seven-match unbeaten run against German clubs, home and away (W5 D2). Their overall record since then is W6 D2 L6.

That 2020 tie against PSG was Dortmund’s last contest against a French club before Matchday 1 this year.

Dortmund were unbeaten in their first six home games against French clubs (W3 D3) but have lost two of the subsequent six matches, winning three.

Defeat in Paris four seasons ago ended Dortmund’s three-game winning run against French opponents. They have now lost two of the last three, drawing the other.

For some at Dortmund, this is the inevitable end point of a long period harking back to the 2010-13 glory era, with the club constantly rehiring familiar figures. This isn’t necessarily seen as a good thing, either. There is a strong argument it has prevented the club from progressing. They don’t even have a truly great young talent they can sell on right now, a policy that has sustained the club in past seasons.

The teams’ only other meetings came in the 2010/11 Europa League group stage, when both games ended all square.

An 87th-minute goal from Paris substitute Clément Chantôme cancelled out Nuri Şahin’s penalty opener for Dortmund five minutes into the second half on Matchday 3.

The game at the Parc des Princes two weeks later finished goalless.