Marco Reus’s Borussia Dortmund career is coming to an end and what better way to sign off at the club than with a return to Wembley for another shot at Champions League glory 11 years after he lost there in the final. Dortmund beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 on Tuesday to complete a 2-0 aggregate win and reach the Champions League final for the first time since 2013, when they lost to Bayern Munich at Wembley at the start of Reus’s Dortmund career. The 34-year-old who joined Dortmund in 2012 having spent a decade there as a youth player, will leave at the end of the season having won two German Cups but he has yet to win the Bundesliga or the Champions League. “Indescribable. After more than 10 years, I am in the final with Borussia again,” said Reus, who came on as a substitute in Paris. “Ousmane [Dembélé] and Achraf [Hakimi] brought a tremendous amount of pace and we suffered a lot. “How we won the game, no one will ask tomorrow. Shots against the post won’t matter tomorrow. What counts is that Borussia Dortmund is in the final again. Nobody expected this. It’s just incredible.” Dortmund earned the win with a Mats Hummels header but PSG hit the woodwork four times. Their coach, Edin Terzic, said he hoped the win would help make amends for last season’s disappointing Bundesliga finale when they failed to win the title after slipping up on the final day. “Last season, we lost the championship at home on the last matchday. I’m happy that we can now give something back to the fans,” Terzic said, remembering how Bayern Munich snatched the Bundesliga title from Dortmund on goal difference. “Now we’ll do everything to bring the trophy back home.” His side will face either Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, who meet at the Bernabéu on Wednesday after a 2-2 draw in the first leg, in the 1 June showdown at Wembley. Dortmund are in fifth place in the Bundesliga with two matches left to play after a rollercoaster season. “That plays no role,” Terzic said. “In 2013 when Dortmund were in the Champions League final they were 25 points behind in the league and in 1997 when they won it they were also not doing well. The season had highs and lows but our season is still not finished.” The PSG captain, Marquinhos, said: “We weren’t efficient, they were efficient, they scored two goals and won both matches. There’s a lot to take back from this competition. “At the start of the season, nobody believed we’d get this far. We’ve overcome a lot of obstacles, but we can’t throw everything away now just because we’ve been eliminated. We have to remember that this is a new project, with a new coach. There are positive things to take into the next season.”
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