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Borussia Dortmund has qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League with a 0-0 draw at home against Brugge on Wednesday, but Axel Witsel is injured in the knees of the leaders of the Bundesliga.
After the leaders, Atletico Madrid, got their last pbad of group A with a 2-0 win over Thierry Henry's Monaco, Dortmund, second, got the necessary point to reach the round of 16.
However, the draw had a price, the Belgian midfielder Dortmund Witsel having been injured in the knee in the last moments.
Bruges can no longer qualify and will enter the round of 16 of the Europa League with a third place guaranteed.
Dortmund can still win the group if he beats Monaco in two weeks and Atletico does not beat Bruges in Madrid on the last day.
"We had two big chances in the first half and things got harder and harder and we just could not find the holes," said Dortmund sports director Michael Zorc.
"But the priority was to qualify for the last 16."
Dortmund dominated at Signal Iduna Park, with 75% possession and almost three times more pbades than the Belgians, but there was little chance for both sides.
Captain Marco Reus missed the best chance of Dortmund in the first half when he shot wide millimeters in half an hour, then Raphael Guerreiro was the victim of a hit.
The attack from Dortmund at the foot of the fleet was combined at the start of the second half and was often on the verge of scoring.
Eto Horvath, the Brugge goalkeeper, saved Paco Alcacer's shot after the break.
The Spaniard then faced Reus in the vicinity of Christian Pulisic, the scorer of the Dortmund winner in Brugge in September, but defender Brandon Mechele repulsed the threat.
As time pbaded, Dortmund became more and more impatient to see Horvarth repeatedly counteract several attacks with Reus in the thick of the action.
Jadon Sancho, an English teenager, intervened for the last 20 minutes to try to get out of the stalemate.
The Dortmund defense began to lead a dangerous life and allowed Brugge midfielder Emmanuel Bonaventure to easily score Roman Buerki's goal in the 16th minute.
Dortmund's best chance was to allow Reus to find Sancho, who scored for Alcacer, who was unable to add 10 goals in his tenth appearance for Dortmund.
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