After a dire first half at Signal Iduna Park, Dimarco scored with a wonderful free-kick with 10 minutes remaining - a goal that momentarily put Inter into the top eight of the table. But, by the time Diouf netted a late second, Inter had already slipped to 10th, and they will now face either Bodo/Glimt or Benfica - whose goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin dramatically scored a 98th-minute goal in a 4-2 win over Real Madrid to keep them in the competition - in the play-offs.
The Croatian manager has had a mixed spell at the German club, and a report from Fichajes claims he is on Manchester United's shortlist. The Premier League side is considering multiple options, and it will be interesting to see whether they decide to make a move for him. Michael Carrick is currently the club's interim manager and is likely to be shown the door at the end of the season.
Borussia Dortmund and Celtic appeared to have settled on a draw in the opening match in Group B, until Mladen Petrić popped up with a brilliant scissor kick with two seconds left on the clock to earn BVB a 2-1 win. In their second fixture against Real Madrid Leyendas, the Black-and-Yellows made it less tense as ex-Bayern man Mats Hummels opened the scoring in a 4-1 win, which confirmed Dortmund as group winners. That left a shootout for second place between Real and Celtic.
St. Pauli thought they had a 19th-minute penalty of their own, only for the VAR to intervene and overturn an on-field call for handball against Dortmund striker Fabio Silva. Gregor Kobel then smothered Mathias Pereira's close-range effort before Dortmund made their chance count at the other end. Silva initially missed the ball from Karim Adeyemi's, but Julian Brandt was on hand for a simple tap-in to send the hosts ahead on the stroke of half-time.
Both Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are showing strong interest in Nathan De Cat . The young Belgian has established himself in Anderlecht's first team and has already made 26 competitive appearances. According to reports from Ekrem Konur on the X platform , De Cat is not only on the radar of the two German clubs, but also of Olympique Marseille and Bayer Leverkusen. However, Anderlecht plans to let the player leave no earlier than the summer, which complicates negotiations.
"We played a decent game, created a few scoring chances, but didn't do that," Can said. "And that's extremely bitter because it was a knockout game. "In the end, perhaps the last greed was missing. You can't do better this season. We had set ourselves a lot of goals, and unfortunately, we are eliminated here. "We wanted to be brave, wanted to be up front; man against man, if necessary, against the ball. Especially in this competition, we wanted to go extremely far, but unfortunately, we didn't make it - extremely bitter. "We'll keep going, we'll step on the gas in the Bundesliga, also in the Champions League. We still have a long season ahead of us."