Soccer-Last-gasp penalty sends Atalanta past Dortmund and into last 16


Soccer Football - UEFA Champions League - Play Off - Second Leg - Atalanta v Borussia Dortmund - New Balance Arena, Bergamo, Italy - February 25, 2026 Atalanta's Lazar Samardzic scores their fourth goal from the penalty spot REUTERS/Daniele Mascolo

BERGAMO, Italy, ⁠Feb 25 (Reuters) - Atalanta needed a stoppage-time ⁠penalty from Lazar Samardzic to ‌beat Borussia Dortmund 4-1 on Wednesday and advance to the Champions League's last-16 with a ​4-3 aggregate win.

Dortmund's Ramy Bensebaini ⁠was sent off ⁠after his studs caught the head ⁠of an ‌Atalanta player in the penalty area and Samardzic converted ⁠the spot kick to send the ​Italians ‌through. Atalantawill now face either Arsenal ⁠or Bayern ​Munich in the round of 16 with the draw on Friday.

The hosts ⁠scored at the start and ​then end of the first half with goals from Gianluca Scamacca and Davide ⁠Zappacosta and took control of the tie with Mario Pasalic's header early in the second half.

But Dortmund cut ​the deficit with ⁠substitute Karim Adeyemi's curled shot in the ​75th minute to ‌level the tie once ​more before Atalanta's last-gasp winner.

(Reporting by Karolos GrohmannEditing by Toby Davis)

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