10 min Dortmund finding their swagger a little now. Lovely, penetrating passing move and Malaga can't get close to the men dressed like neon bees. Lewandowski, though, is offside at the crucial moment.
8 min Piszczek and Blaszczykowski, a man whose name I will only be invoking with the help of popular keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V this evening, combine promisingly on the right. Antunes is bypassed, but the return pass of the one-two is overhit and out for a goal kick.
6 min It's noisy in the stadium but quiet on the pitch. Malaga have started coming out of their shell a little more and are beginning to press the home side high up the pitch. They're not looking hugely troubled by it, but are rather hemmed in at the moment. Here's your friend and mine Fadi Jak:
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4 min It's not the breakneck speed, pressing fest you may have been led to believe that it would be thus far. Both teams looking patient and cagier than advertised. BOOOOO.
2 min Antunes has the first shot of the match, from around 2,000 yards out on the right hand side. It's over, by some distance, as you may have expected.
Borussia Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Piszczek, Subotic, Felipe Santana, Schmelzer, Gundogan, Bender, Blaszczykowski, Gotze, Reus, Lewandowski.Subs: Langerak, Kehl, Leitner, Hummels, Sahin, Grosskreutz, Schieber.
Malaga: Willy, Jesus Gamez, Demichelis, Sergio Sanchez, Antunes, Joaquin, Toulalan, Camacho, Duda, Isco, Julio Baptista.Subs: Kameni, Lugano, Saviola, Piazon, Eliseu, Santa Cruz, Francisco Portillo.
Yes, we'd all rather be gearing up for a game that has a slightly higher Google ranking than this one, but a coin was tossed, my colleague Nick Pearce won it, and here we are.
Moments later I remembered that that game is almost entirely wrapped up for Real Madrid and isn't likely to be any fun at all.
This one, on the other hand, has everything. Two teams very fond of attacking, one of European football's all-time great stadiums, and, most importantly, a finely-poised scoreline.
Dortmund should have been out of sight after a first leg in which they were periodically capable of slicing apart their post-nouveau riche opponents at will.
It's not all sunshine and patatas bravas for the Spaniards, mind. They're missing surely-a-spelling-mistake captain Weligton as well as Manuel Iturra through suspension this evening, and go into the game as outsiders.
Still, it should be a marvellous game. Goals are guaranteed, because we're sure as hell going to have a penalty shoot-out if it's still 0-0 after 120 minutes tonight and they almost always feature goals.
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