‘Greatest hunger’

Borussia Dortmund’s Marcel Sabitzer during a training session in Dortmund, Germany, on Monday. Pics/Getty Images, AFP

Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic said semi-final opponents Paris Saint-Germain were "built to win the Champions League", ahead of Wednesday's first leg.

Terzic said on Tuesday lifting the European Cup has been the "main objective" of PSG since being taken over by Qatar Sports Investments. "The project in Paris began with the goal of winning the Champions League," Terzic told reporters.

Edin Terzic

"That's been their main objective for a decade." Dortmund topped a difficult group earlier in the competition featuring PSG, AC Milan and Newcastle, before eliminating PSV Eindhoven and Atletico Madrid to reach the semis. "Were we the favourites in the group? Against Atletico Madrid? I don't know," Terzic said when asked if his side will be underdogs against Paris. "Maybe we're the team with less experience, but we may have the greatest hunger. We've got a huge opportunity - and we need to take it," he said.

Terzic said several key players, including quarter-final goalscorers Marcel Sabitzer and Sebastien Haller, would be fit to play. PSG were crowned Ligue 1 champions on Sunday, their 10th league title in the past 12 seasons. Dortmund, who won the competition in 1997, are playing in the semi-finals for the fifth time in the club's history and the first time since 2013, when they also lost to Bayern in the final. Terzic said: "It's the question you hear the most: ‘How do you stop Kylian Mbappe?' But if you focus only on Kylian Mbappe, then comes Ousmane Dembele or [Goncalo] Ramos, or Vitinha, or [Achraf] Hakimi, or [Randal) Kolo Muani and all the others. They have unbelievable quality."

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