"Team Report"

Final dream also as a EURO morale booster

Marcel Sabitzer (right) celebrates with his team-mates Youssoufa Moukoko and Jadon Sancho.(Bild: Action Press)

If anyone knows how to eliminate France's superstars, it's him: Marcel Sabitzer showed the way with Dortmund, knocking France's team players Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele, Warren Zaire-Emery and Kolo Muani out of the premier class - he will be thinking of this morale boost when he meets Mbappe and Co. again in the first EURO group game in Düsseldorf on June 17.

For his performance in Paris, the 30-year-old received a grade of two from the "Bild" newspaper ("ran all over the pitch again, amazing what kilometers the Ösi reels off"), Sabitzer thought back to 2020: "Back then I was already close once, now the dream came true." Four years ago, in the "coronavirus year", he and Leipzig failed to beat PSG in the semi-final in Lisbon (0:3), and now he has his own personal revenge. Now London, Wembley, awaits: "A perfect place to make history!"

David Alaba has already won the Champions League three times.(Bild: GEPA pictures/ Johannes Friedl)

"Sabi" is the sixth Austrian to win the Champions League: Franz Hasil achieved this in 1970 in the Champions Cup with Feyenoord, Heinz Schilcher (1972 with Ajax), Wolfgang Feiersinger (1997 with Dortmund) and Marko Arnautovic (2010 with Inter) were not in the final squad when their clubs won. David Alaba has always played in his three Champions League victories to date with Bayern (2013, 2020) and Real Madrid (2022).