Malaga boss calls for Uefa’s help
Malaga president Abdullah bin Nasser Al-Thani has called for Uefa to investigate his team’s dramatic 3-2 Champions League defeat at Borussia Dortmund, which he blamed on racism. Dortmund scored two goals in 70 seconds in added time at home on Tuesday to reach the last four of the Champions League after their dramatic quarterfinal finished 3-2 on aggregate following last Wednesday’s goalless first leg in Malaga. Replays showed both Germany midfielder Marco Reus’s 91st-minute equaliser and Felipe Santana’s 93rd-minute match winner looked to have been scored from offside positions, leaving Malaga’s Qatari billionaire president fuming. “This is not football, but racism, clearly,” he wrote on his Twitter account after his side were denied a Champions League semifinal place on their first season in the competition. “I hope to open a thorough investigation UEFA regarding the Spanish club out this way (sic).”