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Marseille secured their passage into the Champions League last 16 after a 3-2 win over Borussia Dortmund with Mathieu Valbuena grabbing an amazing injury-time winner
This is what the UEFA Champions League is all about! Knock-out football, pressure, drama and great goals to boot.
Trailing 2-1 with 10 minutes on the clock (at one point losing 2-0) and with Olympiakos winning 3-1 at home to Arsenal, Marseille were facing certain elimination from Europe’s elite cup competition.
However, the saying ‘throwing in the towel’ does not appear in the French language and Andre Ayew got pulses racing that a miracle turnaround was possible in Germany when he headed in an equalizer with just 6 minutes left on the clock.
Still needing to grab a winner, Didier Deschamps’ men pushed forward in throes before pint-sized attacker Mathieu Valbuena jinked past several Dortmund defenders before unleashing a ferocious strike into the home net!
Voila! In one moment of sheer brilliance 1993 Champions League winners L’OM leaped from the bottom of the group and into the last 16 as screams of joy from the South of France reverberated across the continent.
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