BVB Stadion Dortmund - Dortmund 04/12/2012 - 20:45CET (20:45 local time)

Group stage - Group D

Dortmund - Man. City
1-0
 

Dortmund - Man. City 1-0 - 04/12/2012 - Match page - UEFA Champions League 2013

Loading....

 
The official website for European football

Klopp celebrates Dortmund achievement

Published: Wednesday 5 December 2012, 0.30CET
Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp revels in "a great experience so far" after victory against Manchester City FC that left Roberto Mancini reflecting on earlier errors.

This content is streamed in such a way that it is protected and available only in a Flash format. Your device seems not to be compatible with our Flash video player.

 

Player rater

Schieber

Top Player

Dortmund 

Match statistics

Dortmund
Man. City

1

Goals scored

0

48

Possession (%)

52

18

Total attempts

6

10

Attempts on target

4

8

Attempts off target

2

0

Attempts blocked

0

1

Attempts against woodwork

0

3

Corners

7

2

Offsides

9

0

Yellow cards

3

0

Red Cards

0

6

Fouls committed

10

9

Fouls suffered

6

Standings

Last updated: 05/12/2012 08:14 CET

Legend:

P: Played   
Pts: Points   

Matches

 
 
  
Published: Wednesday 5 December 2012, 0.30CET

Klopp celebrates Dortmund achievement

Borussia Dortmund coach Jürgen Klopp revels in "a great experience so far" after victory against Manchester City FC that left Roberto Mancini reflecting on earlier errors.

Jürgen Klopp, Dortmund coach
Our Champions Leauge campaign is something special. I would never have expected us to collect 14 points. I knew however, that we would be tricky opponents for the other teams. I'm not sure if City lacked motivation today, but we certainly didn't make life any easier for them. Our tactical approach was excellent.

We didn't give them any room and if they did manage to break through, we had Roman [Weidenfeller] as a solid back-up. I think that City expected it to be a different game, but we were very aggressive and simply didn't give them many opportunities to spread the play. 

We are happy with the way things have gone for us so far this Champions League season but we know that it's an incredibly tough competition. Milan, Porto or Juventus are potential opponents in the next stage, but we have surely gained some respect with our performances in the group stages. We will just have to wait and see what’s in store for us. It's been a great experience so far.

Roberto Mancini, Manchester City manager
We lost our qualification [for the UEFA Europa League] tonight, but really we had lost it before tonight. We tried to qualify but we were missing players. We had chances to score but if you don't take them it's difficult to win

We are not in the Europa League, and for this we should be disappointed. This can help us for the Premier League but we wanted to try and play in the Europa League; this was our target tonight.

Last season we did better. This year we had a very difficult group but if you make mistakes in the first two or three games it is even more difficult. The Champions League can be strange, Dortmund last year went out in the group stages and like us were in fourth place. This year I think they can win the Champions League.

Last updated: 06/12/12 1.33CET

Related information

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2013/matches/round=2000347/match=2009582/postmatch/quotes/index.html#klopp+delights+bvb+feat

  • © 1998-2013 UEFA. All rights reserved.
  • The CHAMPIONS LEAGUE and UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE words, the UEFA Champions League logo and trophy and the UEFA Champions League Final logos are protected by trade marks and/or copyright of UEFA. No use for commercial purposes may be made of such trade marks. Use of UEFA.com signifies your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.