Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic wary of PSG's 'unbelievable quality'

Borussia Dortmund manager Edin Terzic says their semi-final opponents Paris Saint-Germain have been "built to win the Champions League", ahead of Wednesday night's first leg in Germany.

Terzic, whose side topped a group including PSG but only took a point from their two games, believes that lifting the European Cup has been the "main objective" of the club since they were taken over by Qatar Sports Investments in 2011.

"The project in Paris began with the goal of winning the Champions League," Terzic said. "That's been their main objective for a decade."

PSG were crowned Ligue 1 champions on Sunday, their 10th league title in the past 12 seasons. That domestic dominance, however, has never translated into European success. PSG's best result came in 2020 when they lost the final to Bayern Munich.

Dortmund, who won the competition in 1997, are playing in the semi-finals for the fifth time in the club's history and for the first time since 2013, when they also lost to Bayern in the final.

Terzic singled out Kylian Mbappe for particular praise, but said that focusing solely on him would be a terrible mistake.

He 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.

"If we want to focus on one thing, then we need to focus on the ball. If we worry about the ball – there's just one – then it's much harder for them to score."

Dortmund were held 1-1 on home turf by the Parisians in the group stage, having earlier been beaten 2-0 in France. It was Terzic's side who went through as top seeds, though, thanks to their