Champions League | Bologna 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: Incredible comeback victory | OneFootball

Bologna completed an extraordinary and unexpected comeback to beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1 for their first ever Champions League victory with Thijs Dallinga and Samuel Iling-Junior goals in 60 seconds.

The Rossoblu were hoping to at least leave the Champions League experience with a victory after amassing only two points from six games. Michel Aebischer and Niccolò Cambiaghi were out of action, with Lewis Ferguson not at 100 per cent. Borussia Dortmund were flying high on 12 points, but coach Nuri Sahin was facing the possibility of the sack after three consecutive Bundesliga defeats that saw them slide to 10th place.

See how it unfolded on the Liveblog.

The referee pointed to the spot for an Emil Holm shirt tug on Waldemar Anton during a corner, allowing Serhou Guirassy to convert with a Panenka-style penalty that Lukasz Skorupski got a hand to when already off balance.

Skorupski managed to push a viciously swerving Giovanni Reyna strike over the bar moments later, but Bologna reacted with a desperate defensive interception preventing Santiago Castro getting on the end of a Dan Ndoye roll across.

The move continued and Ndoye seemed to be pulled back by Pascal Gross as he tried to reach the Riccardo Orsolini ball from six yards, but this time the referee and VAR ignored it.

Anton deflected the Lewis Ferguson tap-in over from six yards on an Orsolini assist, then a sensational Gregor Kobel save parried the ferocious Orsolini volley at the near post on a corner.

BOLOGNA, ITALY – JANUARY 21: Lukasz Skorupski of Bologna fails to save a goal by Serhou Guirassy of Borussia Dortmund during the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD7 match between Bologna FC 1909 and Borussia Dortmund at Stadio Renato Dall’Ara on January 21, 2025 in Bologna, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)

However, it went from bad to worse because Orsolini limped off clutching the back of his right thigh and was inconsolable.

An acrobatic Ndoye volley looped over his head and just off target, while the Jens Odgaard header skimmed the crossbar.

Skorupski got it all wrong on a corner to see Guirassy’s header land on the roof of the net, but Bologna finally got their deserved equaliser.

It was only their second goal in the Champions League, as Charalampos Lykogiannis sent Odgaard down the left with a searching pass, it was rolled across and Thijs Dallinga got in front of his marker to sweep in with the inside of the right boot from six yards.

Having waited so long to see goals, Bologna got another moments later. It was Lykogiannis who again sent Odgaard down the left, Dallinga’s shot was this time parried from close range, but only into the path of Samuel Iling-Junior.

Bologna kept pushing and Kobel made a save one-on-one with Odgaard before celebrating an unexpected and thoroughly enjoyable victory. They are mathematically eliminated from the Champions League play-offs, but go out with a bang.

It might also be the final nail in the coffin of Sahin’s Borussia Dortmund career.

Guirassy pen 15 (D), Dallinga 71 (B), Iling-Junior 72 (B)

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