{"id":25968,"date":"2025-04-16T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25968\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:13:16","slug":"borussia-dortmund-star-breaks-mohamed-salahs-champions-league-record-but-his-hat-trick-is-in-vain-as-barcelona-survive-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25968\/","title":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund star BREAKS Mohamed Salah&#8217;s Champions League record &#8211; but his hat-trick is in vain as Barcelona survive to reach semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Borussia Dortmund were knocked out of the Champions League by Barcelona<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>They were beaten 5-3 on aggregate despite winning 3-1 on Tuesday evening<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>LISTEN NOW: <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymail.lnk.to\/its-all-kicking-offDM\">It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!<\/a>, available wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Monday and Thursday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-218\/will-pickworth.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WILL PICKWORTH<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  18:34 EDT, 15 April 2025   |  Updated:  18:34 EDT, 15 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/borussia-dortmund\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8e0e1030-1a44-11f0-a1e1-8b31ce2b85ed\" rel=\"noopener\">Borussia Dortmund<\/a> star Serhou Guirassy became the highest-scoring African player in a single <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/champions_league\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8e1d0450-1a44-11f0-a1e1-8b31ce2b85ed\" rel=\"noopener\">Champions League<\/a> campaign on Tuesday night, but the German side still crashed out of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dortmund were taking on <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/fc-barcelona\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8e0de920-1a44-11f0-a1e1-8b31ce2b85ed\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona<\/a> in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final at Signal Iduna Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They faced a tricky task from the start given the Catalan giants held a 4-0 aggregate lead from last week&#8217;s first leg following a dominant performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Dortmund began the game well and after squandering a couple of early chances, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/niko-kovac\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8e19f710-1a44-11f0-a1e1-8b31ce2b85ed\" rel=\"noopener\">Niko Kovac<\/a>&#8216;s side took the lead thanks to Guirassy&#8217;s chipped penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Guirassy, who joined Dortmund from Stuttgart for \u00a315.4million last summer, added another strike early in the second half after he nodded home\u00a0Ramy Bensebaini&#8217;s header across goal from a corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, disaster struck when Bensebaini, under pressure from <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/robert-lewandowski\/index.html\" id=\"mol-8e1aba60-1a44-11f0-a1e1-8b31ce2b85ed\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Lewandowski<\/a>, turned Fermin Lopez&#8217;s cutback into his own net.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-40a31ddc4ec446b6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97321955-14616119-image-a-1_1744754565905.jpg\" height=\"505\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Serhou Guirassy became the highest-scoring African player in a single Champions League campaign as he netted a hat-trick for Borussia Dortmund against Barcelona on Tuesday night\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Serhou Guirassy became the highest-scoring African player in a single Champions League campaign as he netted a hat-trick for Borussia Dortmund against Barcelona on Tuesday night<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d5501fb1d8023ce8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97321959-14616119-image-a-2_1744754594381.jpg\" height=\"371\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Guirassy took his tally to 13 goals in this season's competition, but Dortmund were knocked out\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Guirassy took his tally to 13 goals in this season&#8217;s competition, but Dortmund were knocked out<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1648d16aaec748bc\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97321991-14616119-image-a-3_1744754622665.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The record\u00a0previously belonged to Mo Salah and Sadio Mane, who scored 10 goals in 2017-18\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The record\u00a0previously belonged to Mo Salah and Sadio Mane, who scored 10 goals in 2017-18<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kovac&#8217;s side kept fighting throughout and Guirassy pounced on a defensive error to fire home emphatically to complete his hat-trick and take the score back to 5-3 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, Barcelona held on to progress to their first Champions League semi-final in six seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Nevertheless, Guirassy racked up his tally in this season&#8217;s competition to an incredible 13 goals in 14 games with his hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In the process, the 29-year-old, who previously played in the tournament with Rennes in 2020-21, broke the record for the most goals scored by an African player in a single Champions League campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This was previously held by Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, who both netted 10 times in Liverpool&#8217;s run to the Champions League final in 2017-18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Guirassy also became the first Dortmund player to score 13 goals in a single Champions League campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He is similarly top of the scoring charts in this year&#8217;s competition after going past Harry Kane (10), Lewandowski (11) and Raphinha (12) on Tuesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile, Barcelona will play either Inter Milan or Bayern Munich in the final four, with the Italian side holding a 2-1 lead from last week&#8217;s first leg.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DailyMailSport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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